Student debts rise
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Cancer breakthrough
Survival rates from large cancers of the breast could improve because of a new technique that may enable doctors to tailor chemotherapy to individual patients, a meeting heard this week, writes...
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Loophole helps draft objectors
A court victory by a young conscientious objector may offer hope to the thousands of Russian university students who face - and fear - military service after graduation. The ruling by a Moscow...
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Experience is the best teacher
Universities have come in for criticism because of their increasing use of postgraduate tutors to "mop up" the less illustrious teaching tasks. More and more undergraduates find themselves under the...
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Short fuse on Ampere
I was disappointed to read F. N. H. Robinson's review of James R. Hofmann's biography of Andre-Marie Ampere (THES, June 21). One wonders how much Dr Robinson knows of the history of science. How else...
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Reluctant Protestants
Bob Scribner doubts that Luther (below) or his reforms were eagerly embraced by most Germans. Only a few years ago an A-level history student would have accounted for the Reformation in terms of the...
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Strike survives ultimata
Nigeria's 38 universities remain closed four months into a strike by the country's lecturers despite efforts by the military government of General Sani Abacha to break their union nationally....
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Conservation degree 'never existed'
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Spinning discs
Following on from the British disease comes the Celtic virus. If the Research Assessment Exercise produces bizarre outcomes for certain institutions, the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Thumbs down to GNVQ
Government plans to introduce degree-level vocational qualifications for all subjects have been put on hold following a resounding rejection from Britain's universities. Over half the universities (...
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German austerity bites
University construction funds are to be frozen at DM1.8 billion (Pounds 750 million) as part of Germany's austerity drive despite huge student overcrowding. This week's federal budget is lopping...
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Checking links of quality and funding
Would a tie-up between excellent teaching and extra funding be a valid and fair system? Stephen Court investigates the unevenness in key HEFCE findings. Should funding be linked to high-quality...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Travel from Lagos to Ibadan. Have to wait until today because the highway is infested with armed robbers at night. Read a newspaper article explaining that the police are powerless, since...
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Fight for certificate without errors
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Scone in a jam
The excitement over the impending return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland has been slightly tempered by learned articles explaining that the Scots actually nicked it from Ireland. When Irish...