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Anger at student appraisal plan for academic staff The government is ready to extend performance-related pay to academic staff, using a new form of student appraisal to set levels of pay. The...
Anger at student appraisal plan for academic staff The government is ready to extend performance-related pay to academic staff, using a new form of student appraisal to set levels of pay. The...
It was a turning point in human history, the moment when a group of Levantine farmers first sowed seeds of barley before returning at the end of the growing season to reap their harvest. Scientists...
Talks later this month between conservationists and Club Mediterranée may seal the fate of the last colony of one of the world's rarest birds. The holiday village company wants to develop an area...
Adventures in Science (9.30 am R4). Ben Silburn offers an atom's-eye view of a proton in a particle accelerator. The Mayfair Set (9.50 am, also 12.50, 3.50, 6.50, 9.50 BBC Knowledge). Repeat of the...
Some British universities operating in Turkey are involved in illegal education programmes, the country's higher education board, YOK, has alleged. YOK, which administers and supervises Turkish...
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THE admirable rise of higher education in the illegally-occupied Turkish zone of northern Cyprus (THES, January 9) may have more to do with the concerted campaign by certain sectors of the Turkish...
Muslim world strongly opposed to US foreign policy Muslims feel sympathy for the US after the terrorist attacks of September 11, but they feel even more strongly that the West's military action in...
Copenhagen, 06 Dec 2002 Further action needed to reach EU climate change target, projections show Policy measures taken so far by European Union countries to curb their emissions of greenhouse gases...
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Plan to tax students but restore grants for poor Tony Blair is on the verge of restoring maintenance grants for poorer students in England as part of an overhaul of the student funding system. But...
Turkish students applying for university registration clashed with the authorities last week over a dress code that bans Islamic head scarves and beards. Veiled women students registering at Istanbul...
In 1973, cross-cultural psychologist Gustav Johoda said: "Psychology needs developing countries badly." But almost three decades later, psychology remains a product of western culture, dominated by...
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