Mature policy pays dividends
Richard Disney argues that the UK, unlike its international competitors, is not facing a crisis from an ageing population thanks to radical cutbacks in social security provision and the increasing...
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Astronomers lose vital eye in the sky
A prolific astronomical satellite, which was launched on a three-year mission in 1978 but is still active, is to be shut down in six weeks' time because of funding problems. The International...
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Oxbridge links up with Met office and Oxheading
Computer-generated weather forecasts could become more accurate thanks to an initiative just launched by the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in collaboration with the Meteorological Office....
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NUS calls for reform of entrance procedures
The National Union of Students has called for reform of the university applications and admissions system amid a mad scramble for places after this year's A-level results. The NUS believes that the...
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Computer aids French killer hunt
The world's most advanced translating computer, designed by scientists at Cambridge and Edinburgh, has been hired to speed up the police investigation into the rape and murder of Cornish schoolgirl...
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Rome set for 'foreigners' deal
Pisa. The new Italian government is preparing to do a deal with foreign mother-tongue lecturers and put an end to their ten-year battle against discrimination. Sources in the ministry of employment...
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Maths data 15 years out of date
David Reynolds and Shaun Farrell, authors of the recent OFSTED report Worlds Apart? (THES, August 9), are quoted as saying that "There is nothing to support those who would criticise maths and...
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Class ain't what it used to be
Britain may not have eradicated its class system, but its sociologists are at least giving it a thorough overhaul. Lucy Hodges continues our series on work and the family. "The long-established...
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Loans bid
A mortgage company has emerged as the third organisation bidding to run a privatised loans scheme, prompting the NUS to seek guarantees on service standards. National Home Loans ended months of...
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Ulster search for exams link-up sample head 2 lines
Two researchers at Queen's University, Belfast are beginning a study which could pave the way for closer links between A levels and GNVQs. Alex McEwen, reader in the school of education, and Carol...
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Forensics unmask dead poet
Forensic techniques used by the police to establish the identity of unknown bodies have revealed what 16th-century Scottish humanist, classicist, historian and poet George Buchanan looked like. Tutor...
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Karbovantsy cuts hit the Ukraine
Ukraine has announced major cuts in higher education following a Presidential decision to reduce the state wage bill. The country's post-Soviet economic crisis has meant that government employees,...
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Physicist's credentials
I apologise for the lateness of my response to Helmut Rechenberg's review of my book Hitler's Uranium Club (THES, January 26). I wish to comment only on the last paragraph. "Bernstein criticises and...
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It helps to be a don if you're going to be a Deirdre
Deirdre McCloskey, formerly Donald, advises that if you are tempted to change your gender, secure a post in academia first. If you are going to change your gender, it would be a smart move to get...
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Death in the final degree interview
Police investigating the fatal shooting of three professors by a student at San Diego State University say the 36-year-old suspect's thesis had been failed once already. A repeat would probably have...