Grants
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Research councils: Mr E. A. Rees and Professor R. W. Davies, Pounds 138,030 from Economic & Social Research Council (economic development and centre-local...
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SuperCOSMOS
(Photograph) - Abreast of developments: Radiologists could find it easier to detect early breast cancer using a machine called SuperCOSMOS, which was designed and built at the Royal Observatory in...
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Net libel fears grow
Universities' fears that they could be sued for defamatory messages staff and students write on the Internet will receive little relief from a draft bill to be published next month. The bill may...
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Reward new like old, Boswell urged
Tim Boswell this week ducked a challenge to give the new universities a better deal for teaching. Sir Graham Bright, Conservative MP for Luton South, asked the further and higher education minister...
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Rift over colleges' push for university title
A move to persuade Gillian Shephard, the Secretary of State for Education, to agree new criteria for the use of the title "university college" threatens to split the higher education college sector....
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Gene team detects cancer clues
Scientists believe that they have traced a hereditary link to breast cancer and can predict which women can tolerate a stronger blast of radiation. Aisling Irwin reports. The photograph was taken in...
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Past imperfect, future tense
Historians in post-communist Eastern Europe are busy reclaiming the past. Huw Richards reports. A Russian joke of pre-glasnost vintage tells of Napoleon, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun...
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The victim of a victim
Claire Sanders reports on the aftermath of the traumatic discovery of a dead baby in a university lavatory. On April 10 a cleaner from the private cleaning company, PHS Ltd, noticed that a sanitary...
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IT takes strain in Cyberland
I have recently discovered a new community. It is international, open and democratic. It inhabits what William Gibson called "cyberspace" and can be contacted through the Internet. It is growing...
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The classic dilemma
The discussions on the state of classics by Peter Jones and Nick Tate (THES, May 19) are the latest addition to the decades-long concern as to whether the subject has a future. But what is the "...
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The speech writer
Lucy Hodges meets Deborah Tannen, the sociolinguist whose studies of how people talk to one another have made her an American household name. Sellotaped to the door of Deborah Tannen's office at...
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Asia to turn Japanese
Universities in Asia are paying a great deal of attention to the people who have made the region's economic revolution possible. These are the wealth-minded national leaders and the businessmen whom...
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Targets moving the wrong way
If at first you don't succeed - you don't succeed." This is the reality of the British system of education and training for many millions of people. The revised National Education and Training...
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Don's Diary
Friday. After reading the most important sections of The THES - the job ads, Laurie Taylor, Antithesis - turn to Don's Diary, only to read yet another academic's account of his voyage abroad to some...
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Exponential growth by degrees
Declining standards and inflation in qualifications to meet Government pressures? On page one (THES, May 26) GNVQ level 4 is to "replace HNDs", then "take over from diplomas". By the fourth column it...