Englishmen use sun to go out in Mad Dog
A TEAM of five from London's South Bank University this week completed an arduous 3,000 kilometre journey across the Australian outback in a solar-powered car, writes Alan Thomson. The university's...
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Twin scheme to probe costs
Colleges are to be twinned over the next few months to help collect evidence in the funding argument. The scheme, supported by the Further Education Funding Council and overseen by its Tariff...
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Scientists urged to leave labs in hunt for mates
Evolutionary psychologists know that we are all instinctively drawn to people with good looks. But they still have to explain how we sift through the available population to find a spouse, according...
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Milk of human delusions
Schizophrenics who are taught to put their delusions to the test go on to make speedier recoveries from acute psychosis than patients receiving more established therapies, according to a study co-...
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Tasty way to kill off locusts
A better understanding of the voracious desert locust's sense of taste could lead to ways of reducing crop damage by insect pests, according Philip Newland of Cambridge University. His research is...
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Superbug battle zone
Scientists are uniting in the war against drug-defying superbugs by setting up a multi-disciplinary centre dedicated to the fight. Concern is mounting worldwide over the resurgence of diseases like...
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Babies are prisoners in cell block hate, research reveals
Jailed mothers and their children face a rigid "culture of scorn" in women's prisons in both Britain and Australia, according to research. This attitude meant few concessions were made for the...
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All colleges great and small know their place
LATE last month, the University of California at Davis, a 24,000-student campus which made its name fostering the California wine industry, got an unusual offer. The president of the Association of...
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The best university in the world?
Readers are invited to name their candidate for the accolade of most distinguished university in the world. Write to the editor of The THES with your nomination - giving the reasons for your choice...
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Grand divide leads to ranking taboo
University ranking remains a taboo topic in France, where the traditional principle of a clear divide between hyper-selective grandes ecoles and non-selective, unranked universities still meets with...
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Grapevine guide to a spread of excellence
Italy has no independent organisation for evaluating universities in terms of standards and productivity. What is known about universities and single departments is the result of direct knowledge,...
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Ideology ends official quest for quality picture
The ELECTION of a conservative government in Australia last March saw the end of the only official system of ranking universities, writes Geoff Maslen. The former Labor government introduced annual...
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Magazines satisfy a national obsession
Officially all German universities are equal. A key principle of the egalitarian, anti-elitist, federal state is that students have equal opportunities whether they study in Konstanz in the south or...
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The folly of the ivy?
As four British universities prepare to join an international network, Simon Midgley and Geoff Maslen examine university links and the feasibility of a world super league of institutions. Education...
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Minority quotas face axe
If the polls are correct, California voters will this week approve a measure to ban all "affirmative action" programmes for minority students and staff in the biggest public university system in the...