Crystal maze
At a time when any job advertisement results in a flood of applications, has Edinburgh University's department of geology and geophysics found a new way of speeding up the selection process? It is...
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Through keyhole surgery on TV
A new video network which allows postgraduate medical students throughout Scotland to watch operations while they are being carried out, was launched this week. Michael Forsyth, secretary of state...
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Suicidal cells give clue to HIV puzzle
The HIV virus overworks the cells of the immune system so much that they commit suicide, immunologists learned last week at a Biochemical Society conference in Edinburgh. New research on T-cell...
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Copenhagen keen on bio centre
The University of Copenhagen has unveiled plans to create a large bio-technological research centre to open at the start of the next millenniium. To be located next to the University Hospital, the...
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Funding should be linked to fair play
I was very interested to read your coverage of Gasper Vahramian's battle through the legal system to obtain his City and Guilds photography course certificate (THES, July 12). I noted both the time...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. There are some perks in attending a conference organised by the police. As I emerge from the umbilical corridor joining plane and airport at Warsaw, three Polish police officers whisk me...
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Governors confess to self-assessment failure
College governing boards have admitted to serious weaknesses in their processes of self-assessment, according to the results of a survey published this week. In the first national study of quality in...
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Ready, stats, go!
The will to survive the cut-throat higher education market place appears to have prompted a gung-ho use of statistics by Anglia Polytechnic University. An apparently innocuous press release last week...
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MPs attack research privatisation style
The Government's handling of four research institutes being considered for privatisation has been described as "far from satisfactory" by the House of Commons science and technology committee. The...
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Women fear losing local power
The restructuring of local government has many vocal critics. The explicit aim may have been to improve cost-effectiveness and accountability, but opponents claim that it will weaken local democracy...
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An apple a day keeps species up
The 6,000 varieties of apples lost in the United States over the past century could have held the genetic key to producing better fruit, according to Geoffrey Hawtin, director general of the...
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Passage to India
The problem of flooding the Indian market with opportunistic offerings from overseas universities is an increasingly serious one (THES, July 5). The more general issues of transfer of educational...
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Danger: market forces at work
Recently I was privileged to attend a degree-awarding ceremony, organised by the University of Central England for international students graduating in 1996. The occasion was special, partly because...
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Fen defended
(Photograph) - More than Pounds 70,000 in private donations should save the archaeological dig Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire, from closure. The site was endangered after the withdrawal of funding by...
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Ace tennis players served with own league
The creation of a premier tennis league in British student sport has initiated changes which could eventually revolutionise its highest levels. The decision of the British Universities Sports...