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Higher channels
John Davies surveys the broadcasting schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Channel 4's new Sunday-night series The Day the World Took Off (8.00) is an interesting attempt to do...
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When did the rot set in?
When the police need a time of death for a decomposing corpse, they call entomology professor M. Lee Goff. Tim Cornwell reports on a growing academic field Insects and homicide have a long and...
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Restricted to men of 'taste and education'
A Victorian gentleman's collection of phalluses sounds intriguing, right? Laura Thomas explains why curator David Gaimster (right) is determined to prevent the break-up of the collection kept in...
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Can vote, won't vote
Is Britain facing a collapse of democracy? As fewer and fewer people turn out to vote, Paul Whiteley outlines a nationwide programme launched to find out why Last month's election for London's mayor...
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A small step from monkey to the giant that is mankind
Why do humans get Aids and chimps don't? Some researchers say a chimp genome project would give us the answer. Ayala Ochert reports Just this month, Human Genome Project scientists announced the...
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Who'll enrol at e(litist)-university?
Far more students need access to the internet if it is to drive education, argues Anthony Hesketh There are 300 million internet users across the globe. One million new web pages were created in 1998...
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Minister rethinks X-ray for France
PARIS France's new research minister, Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg, last week presented his policies, most of them continuing and building on the programmes of his predecessor, Claude All gre. The...
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Time for a poor quota
Top universities should reserve places for pupils from deprived schools, says Andrew Pakes The chance of going to a so-called "top" university is less than one in a 100 if you are from a low-income...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...Frank Burdett disagreed with the recommendation of the Nuffield languages report that all students wanting to go to university must have a foreign-language qualification Harry...
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Students forced to resit after exam chaos
Sixty final-year computing students at the University of Northumbria will today retake an exam after the original script was found to contain the answers. Students are angry that they were not...
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Terri Scott
In The THES of May 12 we wrongly implied that Terri Scott, dean of regional development at Ulster University, was male. We apologise.
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Rags bring in riches
I would like to thank The THES for the excellent article "Rag time's new vibe" (THES, May 5). It is a very positive representation of student fundraising across the United Kingdom, of which all rags...
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FE enters black
The further education sector is in better financial shape than it has been since incorporation, writes Tony Tysome. Figures published this week show that colleges generated an operating surplus of...
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Dons are well paid, claims Pounds 100k official
Education chief Sir Michael Bichard launched an extraordinary attack on the higher education sector this week by saying that universities are well-funded, lecturers well-paid and problems partly of...