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Dull teaching blights sciences
Science, maths and computing courses are being damaged by unimaginative teaching, high drop-out rates, and poor facilities, reports a survey by the Further Education Funding Council. And higher...
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Howls from a thicket of blood
Ariel Dorfman has spent his life fleeing tyrants. Here he tells Jennifer Wallace how the guilt of survival and his nomadic life have inspired his writing. When Ariel Dorfman was nearly three he made...
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The naked and the damned
Legislation invoked in the tussles over the borderline between art and obscenity is a dinosaur and irrelevant today, argues Lynda Nead. The Crown Prosecution Service last month decided to prosecute...
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Who killed King Tut?
Was Tutankhamen murdered by anadviser who coveted his wife and his throne? Bob Brier follows up the leads ina 3,000-year-old mystery. Tutankhamen is one of Egyptology's great mysteries. The most...
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The Treasury's fatal choice
Did the British government, as nationalists claim, exacerbate last century's potato blight so causing the Irish famine? Patrick McGregor sifts the evidence. The great Irish famine, triggered by the...
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Shroud recovers its mystery
Was the science that declared the Turin Shroud a fake flawed? Ian Wilson believes he has uncovered evidence that renders its findings dubious. By all normal standards of rationality the Turin Shroud...
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American University of Beirut college hall
(Photograph) - Open door: A student at the American University of Beirut stands against the backdrop of the college hall, bombed in 1991 and being rebuilt, which is due to open in June. Photograph:...
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Lecturers lay down the law
North America A rising number of United States college professors are using their course syllabi to lay down codes of conduct for students, who they say are becoming increasingly unruly. Along with...
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Union calls off boycott
North America Canada's academic trade union has called off an international boycott of the Technical University of British Columbia. The Canadian Association of University Teachers says it is...
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Academics join forces to grill public
ACADEMIC work groups have been set up to frame a series of questions for thousands of ordinary Britons participating in the country's social research programmes. More than 80 users of the 1946, 1958...
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Battle against cancer takes to the stars
Scientists are adapting the latest techniques for studying stars and distant galaxies to help in the battle against cancer. Researchers from Leicester University's physics and astronomy department...
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Oaks, pines and pastures new for geographers
Geographers at Loughborough University are to receive Pounds 233,000 to look into the impact on groundwater reserves of increasing wooded land in the United Kingdom. The project team, led by Ian Reid...
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Minimum wage myth
ECONOMISTS' traditional opposition to a statutory minimum wage is misguided, according to a new theory presented by Warwick and St Andrews University researchers to the conference. Evidence is...
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Why monetary union may derail Germany
The Royal Economic Society held its annual conference at Warwick University this week FAR FROM being the engine of the Maastricht convergence process, Germany is in danger of being derailed by it and...