Small cast, big hopes
A technique that lets you make a plastic mould of molecules could help clean blood of toxins and perform many industrial applications. Geoff Watts reports. Press a coin firmly into a piece of...
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World Watch
Bujumbura Rebel forces opposed to the government of Pierre Buyoya launched a series of rocket attacks on the National University of Burundi. Students and lecturers fled the campus, which...
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Latest international news
Israeli army cuts off campus The Israeli army has dug two trenches in the only road linking the Palestinian university of Bir Zeit to the rest of the West Bank, cutting telephone lines and water...
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Latest UK news
More men than women are student virgins One in five male students, and more than one in ten women students, are still virgins, a survey of 2,600 students by virginstudent.com revealed today. Lowest...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times An industry-wide tax credit for research and development, proposed in the Budget, is unlikely to close Britain's productivity gap with other industrialised countries, the Institute...
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Academic awards
Royal College of Art The Sir Misha Black Medal for distinguished services to design education 2001 has been awarded to Yuri Soloviev in recognition of his development of the International Council of...
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Higher education appointments
University of Surrey Lecturers S. Fabri , mobile-satellite communications and networking. R. Tandon , marketing. Research officers D. Cox , school of electronics, computing and mathematics. K....
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British Academy research grants 2001
Dr L. Archer (University of North London), £6,660. The role of identities and inequalities on the aspirations of inner-city school leavers. Professor G. Barker FBA (University of Leicester), £13,535...
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Laurie Taylor column
"The teaching quality assessment exercise has been rendered all but meaningless by grade inflation and gamesmanship" - THES, March 2 . Let me turn immediately to the only item on today's agenda. I'm...
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Letter: Ideas cost the Earth (1)
Fred Pearce's review of Vandana Shiva's Tomorrow's Diversity and Norman Moss's Managing the Planet (Books, THES, March 2) seemed to be little more than a Baconian reinforcement. Applauding Moss's...
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Letter: Ideas cost the Earth (2)
Fred Pearce's attack on Vandana Shiva is an instructive example of how environmentalism without a recognition of the intrinsic value of nature is vulnerable to the self-serving ideology of...
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Letter: Happy relationship
Matthew Chapman criticises Liverpool University's accreditation of Trinity College degrees in his article on British universities validating degrees from foreign institutions ("Risks in overseas...
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Letter: Sats don't help access
It seems extraordinary that the UK is now engaged in a debate on the merits of United States Scholastic Assessment Tests ("Britain is urged to adopt US Sats", THES, March 2). American research has...
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Letter: Past imperfect
I share Beverley Southgate's concern about the declining number of history students (Why I... think history needs a moral purpose, THES, March 2). I suggest several reasons for this: * The deplorable...
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Letter: Inflation deflates 'robust' QAA (1)
Your story on the inflation of teaching quality assessment grades is cogent and welcome, but the conclusion is not surprising ("TQA devalued by grade rises", THES, March 9). The trend is best...