Tailor loans to cover all study costs
Correspondents argued last week that higher education should be free ("Professors call for fee and grant rethink"). We agree completely that higher education should be free at the point of use....
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Ministries divide and rule
THE symbolic importance of Santiago de Compostela's central square is often commented on. Around the square there is the university, which recently celebrated its 500th anniversary, the cathedral...
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Title holders fight changes
University colleges have warned that they may be forced to close degree courses if the government pursues plans to make them change their names. They said that proposed strict rules on the use of the...
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RGO back to first site
A national centre for the understanding of astronomy could soon be attracting more than a million visitors a year to Greenwich, writes Julia Hinde. The council of the Particle Physics and Astronomy...
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Battle defends FP5 budget
Science minister John Battle has mounted a firm defence of a European council agreement to cut research spending, writes Tony Tysome. He told The THES this week that the Council of Research Ministers...
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Wish-list drafted for Mars trip
Europe's space scientists have come up with almost 30 different proposals for experiments to accompany the European Space Agency's proposed Mars Express mission. Mars Express, due to launch in 2003,...
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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 Cambridge botanist with country connections: "Why is Herefordshire more...
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Time, immemorial
Questioning the Millennium
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Great poets with rather small heads
Lives of the Great Romantics II
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Poison in the park
Contaminated Land
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Speaking Volumes: Love and Joy about Letters
Speaking Volumes on Ben Shahn's Love and Joy about Letters . My choice is a book I have never owned. I have not even seen it since 1980. Love and Joy about Letters written and illustrated by Ben...
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El Niño's trail through time
Ecology, Climate and Empire
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Drugs on the farm
Alternative Agriculture
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Global positions on cartography
Framework for the World
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Commercial coordinates
Trading Territories