Bristol not alone in making lower offers
Bristol University, which sparked anger from independent schools for saying it would make lower offers to some applicants from poor-performing schools, claimed this week it was only following the...
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Scot E.coli warrior's lab has contract axed
Hugh Pennington, Aberdeen University's professor of bacteriology, who two years ago led the investigation into the country's worst E.coli outbreak, has been shocked by the Scottish Executive's...
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Students yearn for friendly local pubs
The town-gown divide is narrowing as students outgrow the "cheap pint" culture, according to research by a pub chain. It says students want to swap their "drink anything so long as its cheap" image...
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Pay for today
How right Larry Bunt is (Soapbox, THES, September 10). Not only is the single pay structure an alarming prospect, but the single pension scheme proposed by Bett further ties the hands of institutions...
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Star turn
Creativity is nurtured as well as natural. Kam Patel meets a design course leader skilled in the art of constructive criticism It is the day of the final assessment for second-year textile design...
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Youth scheme fails to deliver
Two-thirds of the 16 to 18-year-olds on the government's much-heralded modern apprenticeships are failing, official figures reveal. Just 32 per cent of the 130,000 young people who have left modern...
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Leeds 13 win their appeal for a first for art
The self-styled Leeds 13 fine art students, who gained notoriety with two highly controversial exhibitions, have appealed successfully against marks awarded for their final degree show. The students...
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Sykes call to focus science
Scientific research funding should be concentrated in a small number of university centres of excellence while the rest train technicians, Sir Richard Sykes told the British Association's Festival of...
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New interest in old powers
As the colonial past recedes, Asia is taking a fresh look at what Europe has to offer, writes Wang Gungwu. A shift in the way Asians study Europe has changed for the first time in a century....
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Mass rallies
Canberra Thousands of students have joined mass rallies on the streets of Australia's regional capitals to protest about the violence in East Timor. They are calling for UN troops to enter East Timor...
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How netting students adds up
Websites are expensive to set up, so colleges are turning to commercial firms to build bespoke portals. Jon Marcus reports. Many United States universities are beginning this academic year with a...
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North-South divide over Diamond site
A decision on the future of the Pounds 175 million national X-ray source, Diamond, is expected in the next two weeks. The Department of Trade and Industry is to rule on whether the new synchrotron...
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Mahathir Mohamad
Kuala Lumpur Prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has welcomed the upgrading of Institute Technology Mara in Shah Alam to university status. Renamed University Technology Mara, it will continue to offer...
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On the origin of legend
Kam Patel in his interview with Steve Jones ("Aping Darwin", THES, September 10) repeats the legend that Karl Marx not only admired Darwin, but even wanted to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin, who...
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Foreign science links
It is the Royal Society as the UK Academy of Science rather than the British Council (Opinion, THES, September 3) that promotes links with science academies overseas. The society has been involved in...