Stay-at-home culture spreads among students
More and more university applicants are opting for institutions in their home region, according to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Almost half of successful...
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Troubled times
An everyday field trip it was not. The trip involved the Four Green Fields of Ireland for a start. And as a fact-finding visit, it differed also - for in Ireland there are very few agreed facts...
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Immune system booster holds key
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. Scientists hope that they may have found a new treatment for tuberculosis based not on drugs but on...
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Britain fiddles as disease spreads
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. The United Kingdom urgently needs a TB action plan - yet a government working group has not reported 20...
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Modern classical recitals off key
Classical music performances may never be the same again, or even the same twice, following findings at a unique research centre at Southampton University. Research at the Centre for the History and...
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Scientists aid hospital staff in information deluge
Addicts of television hospital dramas will be familiar with the plethora of bewildering data flashing up on screens in intensive care units. Unfortunately, the information can be equally bewildering...
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Tubercular alarm bells
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. The growing scourge of tuberculosis, could be eliminated worldwide if doctors and governments were to act...
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Death-defying art comes to light
A new exhibition at an Amsterdam avant-garde art institution is confirming Holland's reputation for being in the forefront of the debate about death. But, far from dealing with euthanasia, the...
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Kicking sand at Uncle Sam
The British Council is bidding to help UK universities challenge their American rivals' success inenrolling students from the Gulf. David Jobbins reports from Dubai Five years after the coalition...
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Italians may move to limit campus access
Access to Italy's universities may be limited by a new law which would make admission to degree courses dependent on available places and, in some cases, a specific aptitude test. Until recently, all...
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Work experience boosts student aptitude
Australian students who enrol at university after joining the workforce or undertaking previous study perform as well as or better than those entering directly from school, according to the first...
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Baptists rejig dance ruling
After 150 years, the largest Baptist university in the United States has lifted a ban on dancing. But the 12,000-student Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has promised to keep a tight lid on "lewd or...
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Malaysians plan corporate culture
The Malaysian government has announced plans to streamline the decision-making structures of the country's universities. Boards of directors are to replace councils as the highest policy-making...
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Unions pledge to fight cuts
As Canada's province of Quebec announced large cuts to higher education, lower-grade academics were engaged in their own struggle to safeguard their pay and conditions. Some 2,500 academics were...
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A case of quantity above quality
At the annual conference of the National Union of Students in Blackpool, I was surprised to find much of the discussion taken up by the need to improve "access" to higher education. Of all the things...