Star Turn
A Scottish history lecturer teaches US students that there is more to Scotland than Braveheart. Olga Wojtas joins him on walkabout Groups of American teenagers visiting Edinburgh in the summer are...
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Why the mouse is the cat's whiskers
In an internet society, do youreally need to go to university? asks Peter Goodhew. Twenty students in Holland have registered to take Europe's first totally internet-based global masters degree in...
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Coordinated vision
University teaching courses should include subject-specific research, argues Pol O'Dochartaigh. Why is it that postgraduate certificates in university teaching contain very little about the subjects...
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Big Brother in public eye on ethics
The British Psychological Society is set to investigate a sociologist's complaint about psychologists' involvement in the television programme Big Brother. David Miller, research manager of Stirling...
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Rules on recruiting students relaxed
Funding chiefs have bumped up the maximum number of students each university or college can recruit next year, after a shortfall of 7,000 last year. Until last week, universities and colleges that...
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Increase in funding for higher education
The extra Pounds 100 million for higher education announced by the government last month represents a 0.5 per cent increase in the unit of funding, ministers confirmed last week. The lifelong...
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Russia bankrolls loans to students
Russia's state savings bank has launched the country's first national student loans scheme with education ministry backing. The Pounds 2.5 billion initiative by Sberbank is aimed at existing students...
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Blair initiative may dilute fund
British involvement in the Commonwealth's top postgraduate scholarship scheme is under review as education ministers from 54 Commonwealth countries come under pressure to step up their commitment....
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Ghostly infrasounds
Vic Tandy makes the absurd claim that "ghosts are mainly infrasound". Surely, ghosts are hallucinations brought about mainly by infrasound (Why II, THES, July 14). Richard Wilson Bicester, Oxfordshire
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Research funding sources
Each week The THES research section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. HUMAN FRONTIER SCIENCE PROGRAM. www.hfsp.org The HFSP aims...
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Web irritant
Why do so many institutional websites fail to put their address and telephone number on the initial page or anywhere obvious? Names of miscreants withheld - and the addresses also. Gerald Vinten...
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Web design
(Photograph) - Angie Cotterill, a fine arts student at Staffordshire University, mixed spiders' webs with vacuum cleaner contents to make a dress for her final-year degree show. She collected the...
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Data disputes delay indicators
Disputes over data quality are delaying the publication of the latest performance indicators that show the social class of students at each university. More than 20 institutions disputed the figures...
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Foreigners pick up teaching tab
Overseas student fees are subsidising the teaching of British and European Union undergraduates to the tune of tens of millions of pounds a year, according to confidential new figures. The figures...
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Wellcome funds free genome software
The Wellcome Trust will spend Pounds 8 million over five years to make freely available to researchers a computer program to analyse the human genome. The program, called Ensembl, locates active...