Life has always been held cheap
Peter Singer's thesis about changing views of life and death (THES, August 18) is based on a fallacy - that "the traditional sanctity of life ethic" has lasted "for nearly 2,000 years". In fact this...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Arrive in Cape Town for a five-day return visit to five South African universities. In January a number of South African universities came to see us as a good example of a multicultural...
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Vantastic voyage home
(Photograph) - The pop music superstar who advised "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" is to teach after all. Singer-song writer Van Morrison is to turn his talents to lecturing in his home territory of...
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The river of sorrows
The Indians of the Amazon, remnants of advanced civilisations decimated by genocide and disease, now face extinction. Claude Levi-Strauss revisits photographs he took more than 50 years ago and muses...
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Building bricks
Further education colleges are asking the Chancellor to invest Pounds 40 million a year in new and refurbished buildings to cope with growing student numbers. The Association for Colleges' public...
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Humane behaviour
During the past few years there has been a discernible shift in popular attitudes towards the social sciences, accelerated by government consultations about national competitiveness and technology...
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Outcry over bid to control patent rights
The Wellcome Trust, Britain's biggest research charity, has delayed the announcement of plans to control intellectual property rights following an outcry from universities. The charity was to...
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Punting for Cambridge
A summer school for inner-city, state-educated, ethnic minority pupils - with little or no post-16 education - was held at Cambridge University last week. Twenty pupils from schools in London and the...
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Jungians welcomed into fold
The famous rift between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung is healing - and it is happening in Colchester, according to one of the joint holders of the country's first chair in Jungian analysis. The...
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Top Welsh post
Keith Robbins, vice chancellor of Lampeter, will become senior vice chancellor of the University of Wales today. He will serve for three years and chair many of the federal university's committees,...
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Greenwich awards
The University of Greenwich has earmarked Pounds 50,000 to introduce Pounds 250 tax-free scholarships for all its undergraduate courses this year. The "Millennium" awards will be presented to...
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Mental block
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that very little has improved in the conditions for mental health patients in London over the past year. Paul Lelliott, director of the Royal College of...
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Logical switch
Teenagers should study logic and rhetoric as part of a new baccalaureate-style diploma, the Association of University and College Lecturers has proposed. The union says A levels should be replaced...
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Cash to keep north's brains
Talented graduates are the target of a Pounds 500,000 initiative to find attractive career opportunities for them in County Durham and stop the brain drain from the north. Research commissioned by...