Anti-fungal fight shows its teeth
A little-known group of opportunistic invaders is on the rampage in the UK, preying on the weak and sick and killing an unknown number of them every year. The victims are the immunocompromised - Aids...
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. . . love 'em . . .
Another way in which the employment of graduates is changing is by the upgrading of new professions to graduate status. Aconspicuous example is nursing, where the process of absorbing a once separate...
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A degree of power
I write to correct a small but important error in a news report (THES, July 5) containing the phrase "the Higher Education Quality Council's granting of degree awarding powers". HEQC does not grant...
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A Godless creed
Can one be religious and not believe in God? Gail Vines talks to the members of a movement who see no contradiction I am not a believer in the sense of believing in God the Father or Jesus Christ as...
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Eat bugs and live longer
Swallowing live bacteria could be the key to fighting antibiotic resistance, scientists were told at a meeting to discuss the realisation that a crucial step in the development of antibiotic...
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Feet students dig in heels
Westminster University's student union is backing claims for costs from 14 mature students who, having accepted places at the university's division of podiatric medicine this autumn, have been told...
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Senior managers quit
Two senior managers at a Roman Catholic college are to step down, just a week after publication of a damning inspection report, writes Harriet Swain. De La Salle College principal John McDermott has...
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Cuts hit book buying hardest
Purchases of books and periodicals are bearing the brunt of funding cuts in nearly nine out of ten surveyed libraries. Initial returns (46 out of 140) from the Library Association survey of higher...
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Star student challenges lottery
Seventeen-year-old Meike Vernooy's determination to become a doctor has led to confrontations between the ministry of education and the medical faculties in the Netherlands over the effectiveness of...
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. . . or lose 'em
It may seem surreal that one of the organisations charged with building policies for a much-expected Labour government is pushing the British racing car industry as a model for our technological...
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Classified misinformation
There is no doubt that the classified honours degree system should be reformed. (THES, July 5) However the idea that the three institutions surveyed by the Higher Education Quality Council is...
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Rock goes to a hard place
Christopher Wilson reflects on the fortunes of the soon-to-be-repatriated Stone of Destiny In consenting to the removal of "her" Coronation Stone from Westminster Abbey the Queen seems also to have...
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Seven win as Bar loses grip
Oxford and the major legal centres of Manchester and Birmingham became the also-rans this week in a race to extend barrister training beyond London. The Bar Council's choice of seven institutions...
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MP demands audit as principal resigns
A Labour MP has called for the establishment of a special National Audit Office-style review body to examine the overseas activities of higher education institutions. This follows the resignation of...
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Treasury considers 'pay all the way' proposals
Proposals to cut spending on further and higher education by handing much of the cost over to students, their parents, and employers, have been considered by the Treasury, it was revealed this week....