Trek from mean streets to masters
Almost ten years after leaving the streets of Regina, Canada, where she worked as a prostitute, Sharon Acoose left the city's university with a masters degree. Under her belt was a year-long research...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
The attention given in The THES to the so-called "glass ceiling", better described as the undervaluing and under-recognition of women academics, is most welcome. it prompts two thoughts about how to...
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The law of the jungle book
Sanjida O'Connell explains how she used her PhD thesis on chimps to write a novel, an extract of which is opposite. She felt like Jesus. All around her the field of flowers shimmered, slick with dew...
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Insect flies in for record
The only obstacle that stands between George McGavin and a verdict over whether he has discovered the smallest winged insect in the world is a pile of 11,500 dead arthropods waiting to be sorted. The...
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Graduates get short shrift on jobs front
Preliminary statistics from the 1995 graduate destinations survey show a shift from permanent to temporary employment contracts, say analysts. The Higher Education Statistics Agency released...
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Revisionist advice
A frustrated psychology professor at Simon Fraser University in Australia has issued the following advice on writing undergraduate essays. Avoid the library and stay at home among your well-worn...
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Nottingham Trent backs entrepreneurs
Graduates with a good idea are to receive thousands of pounds from a university in return for a slice of the profits should they make it in the business world. Bursaries of Pounds 6,000 each, plus...
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Old frigate's future is bright
Twentieth-century military technology is helping to preserve 19th-century military hardware in the latest stage of a unique research project at the University of Abertay Dundee. Scientists from UAD's...
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Mother endows suicide chair
A woman whose son took his own life has helped make possible an endowed chair in suicide studies at the University of Toronto. Doris Sommer-Rotenberg has helped raise Can$1 million (Pounds 490,000),...
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Running fever over glandular issues
Helen Wallace of Greenpeace (THES, June 28) suggests that we take action on the basis of perceptions of problems rather than researched problems. The list of synthetic chemicals which might be shown...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features reviews and advertisements in the newspaper. Job advertisements are updated on the Tuesday before publication of...
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PFI gets v-c thumbs down
The much-vaunted private finance initiative - trumpeted by the Treasury as the answer to higher education's financial problems - is inappropriate and "unaffordable", according to vice chancellors....
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Start-up trouble
Alumnus to be proud of No. 60 went to Wandsworth Technical College and made what could be regarded as a false start in life, working as an assistant cashier at Wandsworth Co-op and then as a civil...
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Poverty raises suicide spectre
Growing anxiety over money could drive more undergraduates into suicide, according to the United Kingdom's leading depression charity. The Depression Alliance has already noted a growth in the...
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'Bandit', aged 1,500, gives France a headache
Some of France's most potent demons, extreme-right nationalism and the unhealed rift between Catholics and secular Republicans, have been awakened, if not yet fully unleashed, by the anniversary of a...