Test lifts bar on Mars proof
The Martian question that everyone wants answered - did the Antarctic meteorite that Nasa has claimed contains signs of ancient life really come from the red planet? - could be solved by a piece of...
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From cradle to coffin . . .
Chris Johnston talks to students about the world of summer jobs. Summer is a time when university students can relax for a couple of months, but many trade the stress of assignments and exams for a...
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Academic attack on library cuts
More than 400 United States scientists and scholars have condemned further funding cuts for university and college libraries and demanded that the government set up an office for scientific and...
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Grimsby at the cutting edge
In response to Max Beloff's disparaging article about media studies and other vocational courses being only fit for keeping people off the streets (THES, August 9), may I add the following? We offer...
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Greece's slaughtered Jews
Mark Mazower commemorates a group of Holocaust victims so efficiently erased by the Nazis that little trace ofthem remains. In Europe, some ghosts are more invisible than others. Millions of visitors...
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Swansea inquiry
A special committee of inquiry has been established by Swansea Institute of 糖心Vlog in the wake of the resignation of the principal Gerald Stockdale. The committee, headed by institute...
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Oxford reaches out
Corhyn Horsfall from Broughton Hall High School in Liverpool is missing two weeks' holiday in Turkey to attend an Oxford University science summer school. "It's been worth it so far - it's been such...
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Dismissal case raises appraisal concerns
The Campaign for Academic Freedom and Standards is backing a professor who is suing the University of North London for alleged breach of contract. Cafas believes that the case, involving the former...
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Aids classes boost awareness
Undergraduates should be taught about Aids and HIV to increase their awareness of the virus and reduce its chances of spreading, according to a Canadian study. The research, at Simon Fraser...
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Grimsby at the cutting edge
Lord Beloff alleges that a "rash of 'media studies' and gender studies' and the rest, whose only contribution to the economy is keeping young people off the labour market" has devalued higher...
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We came, we saw, we came seventh
In his last report from Atlanta, our correspondent Jon Wyatt sees the Olympic flame glow and then die. The Atlanta Olympic Games started and finished with the sort of shows that can take place only...
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Crash course in basics
A university is running crash courses in basic skills to bring students up to scratch before they start their degree courses. Teesside University planned a summer school in skills such as essay...
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Struck out
"Save British Science Society: Supporting Science and the Applications of Science" is the header that accompanies all SBS press releases. The society's bold mission (impossible?) seems however to...
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Gap year used to map career
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Last year, more than 32,000 of the 205,000 applicants with enough A- level and...
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Child abuse term is 'too confusing'
Twenty years after first proposing the term Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) as a label for a form of child abuse, Roy Meadow, professor of paediatrics and child health at St James's University...