Consumer class letdown
Labour bid to topple the Tories as consumer champions received a fillip with the publication of a report condemning schools for failure to educate pupils in consumer awareness. This is despite the...
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Albania puts plants on map
Vast tracts of Albanian landscape, whose plant life has been hidden for decades, are at last being explored with the help of a scientists from the United Kingdom. John Rodwell, of the Unit of...
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Varnish polishes off plaque
The Scots' notorious sweet tooth appears to be as decayed as ever among the latest batch of adolescents, with Dundee University's dental health services research unit reporting that the state of 12-...
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Matter machine may follow collaboration
A Pounds 10 million collaboration that allows Japanese researchers access to one of Europe's most advanced scientific instruments could be followed later this decade by a machine for determining the...
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A trainee at a lathe at Chelsea Polytechnic in the 1940s
(Photograph) - Learning curve: a trainee at a lathe at Chelsea Polytechnic in the 1940s, then a Ministry of Labour training centre. This picture is reproduced as part of Adult Learners' Week by the...
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Dismay at peaceline delay
The University of Ulster has voiced dismay at the Government's failure to announce a go-ahead for the much vaunted peaceline campus in West Belfast. The university warned that vital opportunities to...
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Women get bonus for staying the course
An Pounds 80 bonus for completing a return-to-learn course has been a vital part of a highly successful training initiative in Belfast. Adult Learners' Week will be celebrated next week with the...
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Students to debate funding policy
Student unions around the country have agreed to hold an extraordinary national conference on May 30, when a new funding policy is likely to be adopted. Delegates will debate the results of...
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Fast-track fillip for French teaching
A network of British and French universities is to run a new postgraduate teaching qualification intended to solve the severe foreign language teaching problem in British schools and colleges. Three...
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Glasgow University debate
(Photograph) - Girl talk: students at Glasgow University debated the motion 'That university education tends to narrow the minds of women' as part of the centenary celebration of women at the...
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Scots plug computing gap
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is giving more money to computing and information technology in its latest allocation of capital funding. The move follows last year's quality assessment...
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Soap dished
Staff at Liverpool John Moores University this week shunned their home-grown soap Brookside in favour of Manchester-based Coronation Street. Why? Bet Gilroy's niece Vicky was thumbing the pages of...
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Thin cut
The latest evidence that being slim can improve your health comes from the radiologists. They have managed to make a hole in a magnetic resonance imager into which a surgeon can slip, so that he can...
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Room with a view
Easy winner of this week's "Small World" prize for the best reason for going to a conference in an attractive foreign venue goes to Andrew Thornley, of the London School of Economics. At the Regional...
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Post haste
The image on the back page of The THES came to you from Europe's latest satellite, down a cascade of high-technology links, as far as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. But for the last...