Cut engineering, say employers
Graham Mackenzie, director general of the Engineering Employers Federation, has called for a shakeout of engineering courses in universities. He says that there is "certainly overcapacity" in...
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Anger over Algerian's deportation
Students and staff at Nanterre University near Paris are up in arms over the deportation of a postgraduate Algerian law student. There has been no news of Rabah Bellil since he was picked up by...
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Women storm male Citadel
Two years after Shannon Faulkner won her legal battle to open the doors of an elite military training college to women, the first female cadets admitted under a United States Supreme Court order were...
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The CVCP at a watershed
A managed market gives the committee its best chance of survival. Planning or a free market could break it up, say Ted Tapper and Brian Salter. One of the more interesting aspects of the contemporary...
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Bad genes uncovered
David King reports on the dilemma facing the insurance industry as genetic tests that can predict susceptibility to disease pit insurers against the insured. Put yourself in the following position:...
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Greenwich opens PFI site
The Government's Private Finance Initiative received a boost this week when Greenwich University opened the first PFI-funded building in the higher education sector. The Pounds 12 million student...
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Seventy head for the red
Most English higher education institutions are about to fall into deficit, according to an analysis of their financial positions released this week by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England...
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Correction
In a letter from William Martin (THES, September ) the figure for VAT recovered while he was employed in medical research should have been Pounds 200,000.
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Energy saving
Dundee University will generate its own electricity this month with the completion of a Pounds 2 million combined heat and power plant. The first in Britain, the plant will pay for itself in five...
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Tory science policy too market-driven
Huw Richards reports from the Labour party conference in Blackpool. The Labour conference endorsed an attack on the privatisation and erosion of British public sector science. A composite resolution...
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A culture entrenched by war
Blighty
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Caste outs to centre stage
The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to the 1990s
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Colour judgements from the black right
The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement - The End of Racism - Divided by Color - Beyond Black and White
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Cracking the Fascist carapace
Juan Carlos of Spain - The Government and Politics of Spain
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From Arendt to Zinoviev
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics