Catastrophe for physics at A level
The argument presented by Simon Szreter on A-level grades (THES, November 17) could hardly be more misconceived. Data collected by the ALIS survey, run by Carol Fitzgibbon, professor in the...
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Why no one can bank on this loans plan
Haste born of financial desperation is not a good recipe for fundamental reform, warns Christopher Johnson. The student loan scheme announced in the Queen's Speech makes me despair. In 1989, as chief...
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An unnecessary control
The Government crackdown on immigration will have serious effects on higher education, says Julian Gravatt. Press reports about the Queen's Speech said that there are two education Bills for 1995/96...
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Wrong again
The Government is getting the student loans scheme wrong again. Incredible though it may seem, the advice of the few people who were asked has been ignored. The advice of the many who will be...
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Acorn of an idea grows into prize-winning forest
An international architectural award has been given to a Turkish university's tree planting initiative which has brought wilderness to the country's capital and transformed the climate in a heavily...
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Murder taints 'tolerant' campus
The bullets which pierced the body of 73-year-old Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin also punctured many national illusions of tolerance and cooperation between the mainstreams of secular and...
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Free degrees, no dogma
A Communist victory in next month's Russian general elections would not herald a return to ideological education in its universities and schools, party leader Gennady Andreivich Zyuganov has pledged...
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Fears of Belarus academic ban
Belarusian experts fear a top-level but unpublished directive may halt visits to the country's universities by overseas academics. Evidence of the ban came from a Roman Catholic priest who is...
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Amherst verbal code starts war of words
A draft "harassment policy" at the biggest college campus in New England has resurrected the debate about university speech codes. It aims to punish "verbal or physical conduct" that "...
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Lobbyists head off student loan cuts
In an impressive display of political clout the United States higher education establishment appears to have seen off Republican plans to severely cut back student loan programmes. Conservative...
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Officer for gentlemen rejected
An attempt by university students in Victoria to create Australia's first "men's officer" position has been defeated following cries of outrage by women's groups. Although intended by its advocates...
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Procession to funeral degree
Rain pours from the night sky on to the secluded campus in the dark New England woods. Three empty caskets line the hallway and a skeleton stands sentinel over shelves that sag beneath wax casts of...
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Search for superhighway code
The potential social consequences of the information superhighway are to be investigated by researchers at Oxford University. The study, backed by a Pounds 161,340 grant from the Economic and Social...
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Are you being servered?
Imagine the perfect shop assistant who is always in a good mood, never answers back and remembers what suits you. Edinburgh researchers are trying to build one. They think it will take them three...
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A bounce a day keeps brittle bones away
A daily routine of 50 jumps could help save women from osteoporosis, according to a Nottingham University researcher. Joan Bassey, senior lecturer in physiology in Nottingham's medical school, warns...