Hot and bothered over all that jazz
The introduction of jazz performance courses is causing wild discord in Britain's musical establishment. Tony Tysome finds out whether jazz can be taught and, if it can, whether the teachers are up...
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He who sups with the devil must use a long spoon - and bring a good agent
Should reputable scholars write 'authorised' company histories? Niall Ferguson can think of two good reasons for doing so ... and money is only one of them To many professional historians, the word "...
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Objector on the road to gene hell
Biologist Mae-Wan Ho thinks that genetic engineering is so catastrophic it could plunge the world into a scientifically induced nightmare. David King talks to her Although she is rapidly acquiring a...
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World watch
Malan Marnersdottir has become the first woman rector of the University of the Faroe Islands. The University of the Faroe Islands has faculties in Faroese language and literature, history, society,...
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World watch
Israel's university students have ended their 44-day nationwide strike and returned to classes last week, a week before the semester was due to be cancelled. Student representatives, who failed to...
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Cyprus invests in education
Cyprus is set to become a centre of learning, says Kate Hughes, but private colleges are feeling left out Cyprus is in the grip of a drought. Unless there is significant rainfall, existing supplies...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Peter Younie dismissed the refusal of rebel students at Oxford to pay their Pounds 1,000 tuition fees as an 'irrelevant and old-fashioned protest' Matthew Pledger Brunel...
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NEWS Students' mental health; Peter Atkins glories in a secular commercialised Christmas. FEATURES Spiritual godfather of the Millennium Dome, an interview with Christopher Frayling, overseer of the...
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Stone me
(Photograph) - Groundsman Simon Higgins mows around Figure in a Landscape, 1960, by Barbara Hepworth, part of the new sculpture walk at Exeter University. Photograph by TIM CUFF
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Tight spot
(Photograph) - Tight spot: Serbian students scuffle with police during a protest in Belgrade last week. They were protesting against a law tightening political control of universities.
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Dirty play gets the prize
A board game satirising university life is set to be a big hit with German academics this Christmas. The object of the Campus board game is to climb to the top of the greasy pole of academia - the...
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Survey details Scots in study across UK
The first official survey of higher and further education participation by postcode has been completed in Scotland. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council survey shows the proportion of Scots...
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Nesta to help in the flowering of fellows
An outline of how the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts will operate was unveiled this week. Plans include fellowships to help exceptional individuals. Comments on the proposals...
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Currency crash derails plans for UK university in Thailand
A move to create a private "British University" in Thailand has been frozen by the pull-out of backers hit by the country's currency crisis. Nottingham and Exeter universities, chosen by the Thai and...
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Downing St pow-wow urges R and D boost
Fifteen of Britain's key academic and industrial scientists went to Downing Street to discuss science with ministers this week. A possible new science white paper was discussed as ministers and...