Killer's campus cancels classes
Classes were cancelled this week at Israel's Bar Ilan University, the university attended by the student who shot prime minister Itzhak Rabin this week. Speaking shortly after the assassination, the...
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Built-in rewards
May I provide additional information to your article (THES, October ) which stated "a new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of disruption caused by...
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Hats off to Luton
You report (THES, November 3, 1995) that not a single institution has received a grade 4 for the quality assurance and enhancement aspect of provision under the new HEFCE procedures. The University...
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Food for thought on genetics
I would like to clarify remarks attributed to me about decision-making over genetically engineered foods (THES, October ). While I appreciate the points made in your leader about the case for a new...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. I had been told that the Chinese do not queue but there was a very long and orderly queue for the taxis when I arrived outside the airport in Beijing. Today, only taxis with odd number-plates...
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Russia's private sadness
Nick Holdsworth's article on private colleges in Russia (THES, October 20) is in some respects misleading. The private sector of higher education in that sad land does not comprise about a third of...
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Final frontiers
In the last major interview he gave before his death this week, Ernest Gellner told Simon Targett why, despite bloody Bosnia and divided Quebec, he still believed that ethnic nationalism would not...
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Quoting an Arab
Stella Hughes reports on the furore caused by the publication of a supposedly anonymous interview by an academic on a disaffected youth who was shot by French police as a terrorist. (below) outlines...
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Conflicts of interest
Combatants in a war are driven by a sense of duty rather than by aggression, argues Robert A. Hinde When one person intentionally harms another, we desc- ribe the behaviour as aggression. When one...
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Skeleton staff
Tim Cornwell reports on how anthropologists in the United States are helping to solve crimes and investigate human rights abuses. It was a snapshot of Haiti's dark legacy, a vivid memory of terror in...
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Sacking threat to lecturers
Sixty two lecturers at Bedfordshire College of Further Education face dismissal by the end of this month unless they sign new contracts. The college has told staff still on the old "silver book"...
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Sir Tim Lankester appointed director of the School of Oriental and African Studies
(Photograph) - Sir Tim Lankester has been appointed director of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, just two weeks after losing a tussle to remain permanent secretary of the...
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Banks may underwrite new loans
The Government is to float proposals for a new student loans scheme involving the banks and building societies. Department for Education and Employment officials are expected to table plans in the...
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Voice of God?
Nine years on from the "hand of God" incident in the 1986 World Cup, Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona won cheers instead of boos from an English audience as the Oxford Union heard a 35-minute...