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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a work that owes something to Lenin and Warren Beatty: "Towards the end of...
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6 bottles of fine wine free when you subscribe
Satisfy more than your thirst for knowledge The Bordeaux Direct Classic European Six Bottle Selection Whites Le Bois de Combelle Chardonnay 1997 Coteaux de l'Ard che VdP (France) - Apple-fresh with...
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Daydream believer
Sack the shrink, your dreams are simply scrambled brain-stem impulses. Edward O. Wilson, best known for his love of ants, tells Tim Cornwell about his latest bugbear Ants appear to Edward O. Wilson...
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PhD salaries
Stipends for PhD students are typically less than two-fifths of the median starting salary for a graduate, according to figures from the research councils and the Association of Graduate Recruiters....
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Young galaxies, old child miners
Who are the shining stars among PhD students? Alison Goddard asked six supervisors to nominate those pursuing the most innovative ideas Doing a PhD is like giving birth - it is painful, drawn out and...
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'My God, what does she want?'
Physicians have traditionally been suspicious of the pleasure women have had in masturbation. In the 18th and 19th centuries the "mechanical and iniquitous excitations" of masturbation were thought...
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A sew-sew sex life?
In her research on early needlework magazines, Rachel Maines stumbled across an extraordinary link with women's sex aids. But the subsequent publication of her article on vibrators caused more of a...
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PhD fact file
The number of British students starting a PhD at a UK university dropped by 15 per cent between October 1994 and 1996, to 5,472, according to recent figures from the Office of Science and Technology...
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First steps along the road to space's final frontiers
Antimatter, the ideal fuel for space travel, is not the invention of Star Trek scriptwriters but does exist. But it will be a long time before antimatter-fuelled cruisers roam the universe. Sonya...
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Finishing schools or fleecers of fools?
Overseas students are flocking to the UK to do costly courses carrying no qualifications. Are they being ripped off? Phil Baty reports Every year thousands of foreign students come to the United...
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ACU tipped to take over fee-waiver programme
Commonwealth ministers are determined to increase student exchanges. Elaine Carlton reports It is a battle of international proportions and one that the education ministers of the Commonwealth are...
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Quality watchdog acts fast
In the second of our series on access initiatives, Harriet Swain looks at how quality is assured QUALITY watchdogs have acted quickly to ensure government efforts to improve access to higher...
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The winding road to a kitemark
In the second of our series on access initiatives, Harriet Swain looks at how quality is assured REGISTERED access courses have had their own recognition scheme since 1989. Then it was run jointly by...
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Second sight
(Photograph) - Inventor Jeff Berman explains his laser-guided bow to Andrew Welch, a blind student at Queen Alexandra College, Harborne, Birmingham, during an annual event for people with...