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An open letter to Anthea Millett, the first chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency. Dear Anthea -- May I offer you a warm welcome to a seat that will be either hot or pleasant depending...
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French show an appetite for matters of taste
Scientists carrying out research into what goes on behind our taste buds will soon have their very own "European Centre for Taste and Ingestion", in France's gastronomic heartland of Burgundy. The...
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Christians go to court
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the University of Virginia denying funds to a Christian magazine run by students. The case will be watched closely as it will show how the Court...
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Backwoods Canadian at Open University
When Sir John Daniel applied for the post of vice chancellor of the Open University in 1990 he was not an obvious choice. Although he had taught at the OU in the summer of 1972, he did not expect the...
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A system's failures
Radical reform is imminent for Dutch higher education. Jon Henley weighs up the pros and cons and talks to Roderick Lyall, who has just taken up a chair of English literature at Amsterdam's Free...
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Hull gets medic school
Hull University has launched a postgraduate medical school in collaboration with the local medical profession. It aims to focus on research and health care to benefit the local population. The school...
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Diploma revamp for social work
Social work's main training body is to toughen up knowledge and performance criteria on professional courses. A final draft of proposals for a more rigorous social work diploma has been endorsed by...
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The last of the gorillas
A Hull University scientist is travelling to a remote area on the borders of Southern Uganda and Rwanda in an attempt to preserve the habitat of the world's largest population of mountain gorillas....
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Pigs could soon have their curly tails back
(Photograph) - Pigs could soon have their curly tails back, according to scientists in Ulster who claim a world breakthrough. Presently farmers cut pigs' tails at birth to prevent other pigs from...
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Exercise may halt diabetes
Researchers at Cambridge University are launching the second phase of a unique study of diabetes, this time investigating how physical inactivity affects the onset of the disease. More than 1,100...
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Red tape chokes second loans
The student loans scheme came under fresh fire this week as it was revealed that red tape is choking a new applications system for second-time borrowers. The Student Loans Company in Glasgow...
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Hot off the press
Almost as rapidly into the public consciousness was Warwick University professor of continuing education Chris Duke's article on part-time degrees in The THES of August 9 this summer. Professor Duke...
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Genetic screen finds hidden disease
A new definition of health should be adopted by medical experts if they are to deal successfully with the ethics of genetic screening, a Manchester conference was told last week. If health is defined...
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Green labels
Proposals for greening the campus via increased recycling are obviously taken seriously at the strife-torn University of Huddersfield. The photograph of new vice chancellor Sir William Taylor that...
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Back to the future
Competing for the Future, co-authored by London Business School professor Gary Hamel, is already showing signs of living up to its title. Launched yesterday at a reception at LBS, it had already...