Letter: Unqualified success
Matthew Chapman is concerned degree mills are harming the reputation of UK higher education ("I'd like one doner kebab and a PhD to take away", THES, December 15). Surely more important are the...
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Leader: Bit more than nothing offered for something
The funding council insists that the new money it plans to put into pay must be on a "something for something" basis, and that this means performance related pay - with the establishment of...
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Leader: Still no room on the election manifestoes
Education, though not higher education, looks set to top the political agenda in Britain in 2001. The year will almost certainly bring a general election in which schools rather than colleges will be...
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Multi-dimensional man
John Barrow believes the public needs to know more about science - which is why he's published ten books on the subject and in March will deliver one of this year's Darwin College lectures....
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A light for dark Burmese days
George Soros is giving hope to refugees from an oppressive regime. Maureen Aung-Thwin discusses the aims of the philanthropist. People are intrigued that the foundation network created by Hungarian-...
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So you can get to level four on Tomb Raider - but do you know how it works?
British children love computer games, but they should also be learning to understand the technologies that drive them. Computers are almost ubiquitous: cars, mobile phones and even toasters are...
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Building on a breakdown
Poverty and depression left Peter Beresford a virtual prisoner in his own home. But he turned the tables when he used his experience to found a user-led research centre. It was 14 years ago that a...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
The Poet and the Astronaut (11.00 am R4). Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis and her cousin Joe Tanner, who inspired her poem Zero Gravity (featured in a BBC2 programme in July 1999). Belief (7.00 R3). Last in...
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Higher Channels
Pick of the week Jonathan Meades brings BBC2's Victorian season to a close with the enjoyably pugnacious Victoria Died in 1901 but is Still Alive Today (Sunday 9.45). The programme is mainly about...
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Latest UK news
University applications drop Confidential preliminary totals from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show that on 20 November 2000 the number of application forms received was about 6,...
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Latest international news
Pay dispute prompts exam boycott Lecturers at the University of Zambia have blocked end of semester examinations in a dispute over a 100 per cent pay demand, despite a promise of rapid negotiations...
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From today's UK papers
GUARDIAN Former maths teacher - and teaching union head - John Dunford responds to a survey in which children depicted maths teachers as lonely, bald and unstylish. INDEPENDENT An economist...
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TV & radio guide - Thursday
The X File (11.30 am R4). Alex Cox on film censorship’s history and the first "X certificates" in 1951. Belief (7.00 R3). Joan Bakewell interviews John Bowker, theology professor. Gold...
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Latest international news
Education minister regains control of universities Danish minister for education Margrethe Vestager has regained responsibility for the country’s universities from the research ministry. The research...
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Latest UK news
Chemicals found in farmed salmon Research by a Surrey University toxicologist has found worrying levels of potentially dangerous chemicals in farmed salmon. Miriam Jacobs traced the contamination by...