The Bible ignores Palestine
The headline "The Bible bashers" (THES, January 19) sensationalises and trivialises an important academic debate within biblical studies. Furthermore, the claim that I explained to Simon Targett that...
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The party's gold card
For one reason or another higher education seems to be a source of contention in most - if not all - developed lands. The Russia of the 1990s is no exception, indeed her universities and institutes...
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Key issue review due 'shortly'
The Government is poised to produce plans for tackling key higher education funding and policy issues, but the plans are expected to be broadbrush rather than detailed. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of...
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University funding
The Association of University Teachers has again called for a Royal Commission to lead a national investigation in to the "nightmare problem" of university funding, writes Alison Utley. The AUT said...
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The sleep of reason ... is a female nightmare
* There are 44 million "missing women" in China alone, 36.9 million in India. * In India the "missing women" comprise 9.5 per cent of the number of actual women, in Pakistan 12.9 per cent * When only...
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Is there anyone out there?
It's very unlikely, says Arnold Wolfendale. When lecturing on the search for extra-terrestrial life and the future of life on earth, I usually start by asking "how many of you believe that there is...
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Gotcha! Auntie nabs 'wimp' wonder
Where once Bertrand Russell led, the Rupert Murdoch professor of language and communication now follows. Simon Targett talks to the exponent of this year's BBC Reith lectures, Jean Aitchison True or...
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V-cs polled on action in face of cut budget
The THES conducted a poll of vice chancellors' opinions between January 22 and 31. The predictive ability of the results has to be qualified by the fact that 38 of the 104 Committee of Vice...
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Rent rise leads to strike
Students are witholding rent payments from Liverpool University after hall fees outstripped grants for the first time ever. Students are paying their rent into a rent strike account set up by the...
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2:1 reigns supreme
Reports that universities have increased their grades so much that the 2:1 is now more common than the 2:2 were confirmed this week, with the publication of national data on degree classes....
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Health boost for NW
Liverpool and Manchester universities have pooled expertise in medicine, law and bioethics to produce an institute devoted to medical ethics. The institute is funded by the two universities and by...
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Engineering courses in jeopardy as new council toughens up
The new Engineering Council was launched today amid warnings of a shake-up in engineering degrees that will lead to some courses losing their accreditation. The director general of the new council,...
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Unplugged
We regret to announce the demise of the international edition of Iota, the newsletter of the Dutch Foundation for Public Information on Science, Technology and the Humanities. The parting message on...
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High hopes
One view likely to be less contentious than most at today's CVCP meeting is that higher education issues need a higher profile. As education and employment question time attained unusual levels of...