Engineers get on the wrong track
A survey of 2,000 final-year engineering students shows that only half of them feel they were adequately informed about their course before they joined and a quarter believe they chose the wrong one...
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Aberdeen anguish
Southern bias in the BBC will accelerate in May when a new programme, In the Blood, repeats an experiment originally conducted by Francis Galton in the 19th century. Galton devised a scale of...
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Few scientists
Still on the subject of sexual selection, Professor Jones reminded his audience that sociobiologists note that rich men tend to be more attractive to women and thus pass on their genes at the expense...
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Political football
At last the real explanation for fierce transfer market activity in political science. Nothing to do with research assessment, but a more traditional provoker of big-money transfers - football. The...
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A level playing field?
Sir Ron Dearing proposed a new framework of national awards this week. Alison Utley spells out the implications for higher education. Sir Ron Dearing proposed a new framework of national awards this...
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Power in partnerships
Alison Utley reports on the British Educational Management and Administration Society's conference in Cambridge this week. While the thrust of Government education policy over recent years has been...
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Foot in mouth
Alumni to be proud of numbers 37 to 42 are the successive ministers for agriculture, fisheries and food who have served the causes of open government and rigorous support for public over vested...
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Say CHEESE
The latest edition of the Acronyms and Initialisms in Education handbook reveals a lot about modern linguistic practice. The 74-page sixth edition, published by the Librarians of Institutes and...
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Jewish studies
(Photograph) - Modern identities: Two centres for Jewish studies are being launched in the North of England, bringing together scholars with interests in Jewish literature, music, art, religion,...
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Institutions risk bankruptcy
Some Scottish higher education institutions will be bankrupt by the end of the century unless funding cuts are reversed, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has warned. This follows...
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'Ants' turn on their masters
At least three quarters of the laboratory directors at two of France's main public research organisations have launched an unprecedented campaign of protest against budget cuts and lack of job...
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Asians swell university ranks
For more than five years Australia has encouraged universities to enroll more students from non-English-speaking homes. Institutions have devoted large sums to creating special programmes and the...
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MAFF hears what it wants to hear
By 1988, the ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food was aware of a serious crisis. Cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or "mad cow" disease were confirmed from diverse locations in Britain...
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Fillet of Whitehall
For years the Government has been ignoring expert advice. This week it has been hiding behind scientists. In the late 1980s, when BSE was first diagnosed in cattle, ministers acted too slowly and did...