UK ignores dissociative disorders
The controversial illness, multiple personality disorder, goes undiagnosed and untreated in the United Kingdom despite being present in about one in 14 patients who use psychological and psychiatric...
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Swedish dental work could aid the disfigured
Pioneering dental research started in Sweden in the 1960s is now helping to rehabilitate patients who have lost limbs or part of their face. Per-Ingvar Branemark, head of the institute of applied...
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Report condemns chaos in Greenland
A dispute over the administration of the University of Greenland remains unresolved after a year. Greenland's government gave the university council until last October to propose ways of improving...
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Liberal professor to fight Berlusconi
Italian general elections, probable in the summer or autumn, will see a mild-mannered economics professor from Bologna pitted against the media-might of right-wing television tycoon Silvio Berlusconi...
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Liberation's front
As world leaders try to breathe fresh impetus into the stalled Palestinian peace process, the new state is striving for economic regeneration and a return to social and political stability. The Oslo...
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Deakin student quits after victimisation claim
A 34-year-old Englishman who made national headlines in Australia last year after threatening to take Deakin University to the Trade Practices Commission for misleading advertising, has quit his...
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No more fool's gold
The National Union of Students' decision to review its battle cry for a return of historical grant levels can be seen as its own Clause Four debate. As in the Labour Party's modernising review, it is...
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Bucked trend fizzes up
Speakers at a combined Royal Society/British Academy conference this week were fizzing with excitement. The conference was the Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man - and the...
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Fair pay should be on display
The stark facts about how lecturers' pay increases have lagged behind those of school teachers and other groups since 1979 (THES, March 31) apply no less to academic staff in the new universities and...
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Fair pay should be on display
I read with interest your league table of vice chancellors salaries but was rather puzzled as to why you did not publish the precise information for Oxford Brookes vice chancellor, Clive Booth. For...
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China looks to the 21st century
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, is to tweak its research strategy to focus more directly on economic development under its next Five Year Plan (1996-2000). The...
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Fair pay should be on display
The survey of vice chancellors' pay (THES, March 24) was both informative and timely. As pay talks begin for higher education staff who are not academics it is difficult to absorb the shock-horror of...
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Levy the loaded
Last week the Labour leaders of the National Union of Students began to ditch the union's commitment to free education. At the annual conference they announced that there would be a "review" of NUS's...
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FE dispute needs flexible friendship
I agree with David Bunch's rejection of "gratuitous personal attacks" (THES, March 24) but note he goes on to describe managers who do not share his view of the FE dispute as "faltering voices". As a...