Lizards grow alone
If a planet like earth exists elsewhere it would probably have the same species on it, the British Association heard. Evolutionary biologist Paul Harvey, of Oxford University, said that DNA testing...
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Tropical face paints fight cancer
Hundreds of natural chemicals that could protect the skin from damaging ultraviolet rays have gone unnoticed by Western scientists because they only grow in the tropics, the British Association heard...
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More trainee teachers cut despite shortfall threat
Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 5,000 teachers within five years following savage cuts to faculty of education enrolments that have reduced the supply of new teachers to dangerously low...
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Anti-PC fight-back hits courts
Peter Maas is a Cornell University professor trapped, he claims, in a Kafkaesque web of political correctness. His hugs, kisses and gifts to students were twisted into a sex harassment case,...
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Grumbling Quebecois `will say non'
"Le oui va gagner" say the stickers beginning to proliferate on Montreal lamp-posts as the province of Quebec contemplates yet another sovereignty referendum this autumn. Jean-Claude Robert rather...
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Harare makes slow progress
The University of Zimbabwe functions at a comfortable pace, a sign of a country where taking one's time is of the essence. Despite recent disputes between some students and the administration over...
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Algerian academics held
Three Algerian academics have been arrested in Lyons, France, in a police swoop on networks allegedly supporting Algeria's banned extremist group, the GIA (Armed Islamic Group). The three have been...
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V-cs must grab political advantage
The years following the 1988 Education Reform Act have been among the most eventful in the recent history of the universities. The changes have been dramatic. Where have they left the Committee of...
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Hard battle for TECs
Training and Enterprise Councils have trumpeted the Government's latest performance figures as evidence of "excellent performance and value for money". Such self-congratulation is understandable....
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Destroyers of Yugoslavia
In a second attempt to justify the Serb-sponsored genocide against the people of Bosnia, Will Podmore (THES, September 8) has misquoted me. In order to make his claim that the aggression in the...
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Referendum bites the dust
Seven French government ministers attended the launch of a commission on education which appears set to bury President Chirac's pre-election promise of a referendum on education. In a lengthy...
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Modern English breaks stranglehold of Soviets
British cultural studies, a new trend in the teaching of English in Russian universities, is breathing life back into a language strangled under Soviet isolationism. In the years since the collapse...
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Ethics of vivisection moving into focus
The Boyd group has been meeting secretly for two years to find a balance between opposing sides of the debate over vivisection. Earlier this year a group of scientists, academics, animal welfarists...
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Quality row hides cuts aim
When the diploma in art and design was taken over by the Council for National Academic Awards there was a regulation that art colleges/polytechnic faculties of art and design could admit up to 6 per...
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Just walk this American way
More loans, less grants mark sea change in Britain, writes Rupert Wilkinson. The British way of financing university students is getting more like the American one - less reliance on student grants,...