Science 'losing its cutting edge'
Big changes in the way science is practised is leading to a new framework for the production of knowledge that could mean a decline in scientific objectivity, according to physicist and science...
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Police probe fake racist letter
More than 200 copies of an extreme anti-Semitic letter falsely claiming to be from the warden of Lincoln Theological College have been sent to police by incensed recipients. College warden Canon...
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Cash calls tune for admissions
Access to higher education is becoming "access by ability to pay" throughout western, central and eastern Europe, according to a study of under-representation in European higher education. "Other...
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Ozone blamed for shorter crops
Air pollution in the fast-growing cities of the third world may be stunting their food crops by 40 per cent, researchers at Imperial College have found. This poses serious problems because the...
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Chemicals get under the skin
The skin absorbs virtually any chemical that touches it, new research shows. This overturns the traditional view that it keeps out most substances. Some chemicals, such as the aromatherapy oil...
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Asians take pride in a place
Students who were born in Asia are winning places in New South Wales universities at up to three times the rate of their Australian or European-born counterparts, possibly because their parents place...
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New York restricts open-door policy
Twenty-five years ago the City University of New York took allcomers from around the world who swarmed into America via the Big Apple and managed to graduate from high school. That open admissions...
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Thinktank on African slave isle
In 1987, a group of visionary South African intellectuals, business people and exiled African National Congress leaders incensed the government by getting together in Dakar, Senegal, and other West...
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Management-speak for Poland
Polish universities, overgoverned by generations of academics tied to a rigid career structure, should be opened up to professionals with management experience, according to the first Organisation of...
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Old pals diploma act
A decision by Lithuania's left-wing government to reinstate the diplomas issued by Communist Party colleges during the Soviet era could prove embarrassing to future academic contacts, according to...
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Flying the flag: Edith Cresson at the Paris launch of the Socrates programme
(Photograph) - Flying the flag: former French minister Edith Cresson (right), now European commissioner for education, at the Paris launch of the Socrates programme with (left to right) Gustavo...
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Italian scientists rail against cuts
Italy's scientific community, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, is outraged by cuts to the already meagre budget for scientific research, and by rumours of further cuts in 1996. The 1995...
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Hard sell for inventions
It is neither the scientists nor engineers in our universities that are "patently poor at capitalising on ideas" (THES, June 23) but the people who represent them. University researchers and teaching...
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God power
By some misfortune, Richard Swinburne is misrepresented in Gerard Kelly's very capable article about me (THES, June 30). A firm theological realist, Swinburne may well be described as one for whom...