Green menance in a sea of red tape
When biologist Alexandre Meinesz alerted authorities to a deadly alga colonising the seas, he expected quick action. A decade later, he was the only target of attack. Steve Farrar reports. Alexandre...
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The fine art of making it by faking it
Why does forgery appeal to students? Nick Groom understands perfectly For some years I have been teaching forgery: its history and. literature, and its theory and practice. Students have consistently...
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Academics assess this week's revelations
Iain McLean, professor of politics at Oxford, believes that details of British diplomatic mishaps during its military intervention in Anguilla should have been made public much earlier. "There was no...
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Terrorist study cells
The Open University has helped transform both Loyalist and Republican prisoners. Anne McHardy reports on the lifers earning degrees. Lawrence McKeown and Garnet Busby have more in common than the...
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Cutting Edge
Steve Grand is director of The Cyberlife Research Institute and a pioneer in the bid to create artificial life-forms. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours. As a child I was bullied...
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Oz split over quality agency
MELBOURNE An Australian quality assurance agency is to be established to ensure that public and private universities meet certain standards and to verify their claims about internal quality processes...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES... Sue Fisher called for an immediate end to the deregulation of gambling Mark Griffiths Head of psychology Nottingham Trent University Sue Fisher's plea was timely. Steps...
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Investigators sent to uncover student visa scam
MELBOURNE Up to 15,000 foreign students may be using Australia's student visa system to enter illegally to work rather than to study. The federal government has set up an investigation into claims...
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Loaded lads and lasses
A sneak preview of next year's news stories Violence erupted in yet another university this week after a group of Scottish students taunted English classmates by waving wads of money at them. A...
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Ideal way of learning
University Putra Malaysia has launched its first online distance learning degree course. Two hundred students have enrolled for the bachelor of communications course at the university's Institute of...
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Oz unis prepare for 2000
MELBOURNE Despite taking every precaution, Australian universities are still worried by what might happen at midnight on December 31. One institution has banned staff and students from its campuses...
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Virtual universities
A sneak preview of next year's news stories University employers agreed to meet with unions this week after discovering that staff have been refusing to carry out administration, research or teaching...
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Beijing
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has admitted 55 new members. Five Hong Kong scholars were included but the new members included only two women, one the physicist Zhang Zongyie. The academy's...
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Jewel support
(Photograph) - Jewel support: student David Patch 'chases' a design in copper at the new Sir John Cass Centre for Silversmithing and Jewellery at London Guildhall University, funded by the Worshipful...