From Third Man to third rate
Continuing our serieson favourite films, Norman Stone contrasts the triumphs of British cinema of the 1950s, epitomised by Carol Reed's The Third Man, with the vacuous efforts of today Music...
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Nursing first
Lothian College of Health Studies, which merges with Napier University on September 1, has become the first Scottish National Health Service college to offer a BSc honours degree in nursing studies....
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Finals and Olympian feats
The Olympic Games in Atlanta will be the second major event of the summer for several British competitors, after their degree finals. Eight-hundred-metre runner Diane Modahl managed to combine her...
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Get the CVs right first, EU trainers told
The European Union must guard against being over-ambitious in its plans to help reform vocational education and training in the former Eastern bloc. The warning came from Anne Jones, professor of...
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Hi-tech buildings draw in fresh air
If you think the alternative to air- conditioned office blocks is a swelteringly airless work environment then think again. Interest in naturally ventilated buildings is at an all-time high thanks to...
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As they fly the nest . . .
As this year's graduates head for the job market, questions will be asked, as they have been every summer since the recent expansion. What do graduates do? And are we producing too many, just to see...
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Small leap for womankind
The provocative headline notwithstanding ("Professorial quality diluting"), the short article on mass promotions at Oxford (THES, July 12) produces an odd focus on the statistics. "Women professors...
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Old killers resisting arrest
Diseases last common in the 19th century have returned with an added danger - the prospect of an antibiotic- resistant super bug. Simon Midgley reports Until very recently, antibiotics appeared to...
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Quality council's role reviewed after access U-turn
A policy U-turn by the Higher Education Quality Council has heralded a review of its responsibilities across the further/higher education divide. The council will not now abandon its role in national...
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Imperial gets Welsh deal
Imperial College, London stands to benefit from last week's decision by Korean conglomerate LG Group to invest Pounds 1.7 billion in two state-of-the-art microelectronics facilities in south Wales....
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Anti-fungal fight shows its teeth
A little-known group of opportunistic invaders is on the rampage in the UK, preying on the weak and sick and killing an unknown number of them every year. The victims are the immunocompromised - Aids...
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. . . love 'em . . .
Another way in which the employment of graduates is changing is by the upgrading of new professions to graduate status. Aconspicuous example is nursing, where the process of absorbing a once separate...
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A degree of power
I write to correct a small but important error in a news report (THES, July 5) containing the phrase "the Higher Education Quality Council's granting of degree awarding powers". HEQC does not grant...
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A Godless creed
Can one be religious and not believe in God? Gail Vines talks to the members of a movement who see no contradiction I am not a believer in the sense of believing in God the Father or Jesus Christ as...
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Eat bugs and live longer
Swallowing live bacteria could be the key to fighting antibiotic resistance, scientists were told at a meeting to discuss the realisation that a crucial step in the development of antibiotic...