Er, pause for thought
In our occasional series on first publications, Martyn Kelly talks to Geoffrey Beattie. When I was 11 my world fell apart," wrote psychologist and writer Geoffrey Beattie in his autobiographical work...
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A misconceived agenda
Gavin Fairbairn believes abortion is wrong. The academy, he says, thinks he should stay silent A couple of years ago a student told me how shocked he had been that I had "admitted" to my belief that...
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A disarming chap
It is 50 years since Joseph Rotblat quit the atom bomb project, but this year's Nobel peace prizewinner is still tirelessly campaigning against the menace he once helped to create. Lucy Hodges went...
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Foresight gets praise
Completion of the first stages of the Technology Foresight programme in just two years was a "remarkable achievement" despite "some flaws" in the process, according to the House of Commons science...
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Colleges' cash freed next year
The Government is to drop the mechanism by which a percentage of the grant to further education colleges was withheld to ensure the introduction of new flexible contracts of employment. Education...
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Decision on LSE director
A quality agency for higher education is one step nearer, vice chancellors and principals will hear at their meeting in London today. The membership and terms of reference of a joint planning group...
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Quality teaching premium proposal
English universities are to be asked whether a teaching quality premium should be included in a revised teaching funding formula. The question is included in a consultation document issued this week...
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Working out: Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings
(Photograph) - Working out: Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings this week reopened Glasgow University's indoor sports facilities after a 15 month, Pounds 4.5 million refurbishment. The...
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Changes ahead
From January 1996, Noticeboard will change its emphasis to give more space to people in further and higher education in terms of appointments, promotions, honours, awards, fellowships, etc, of...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service...
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Colony opens women's rights centre
The first academic research centre promising to put feminist issues at the top of the political agenda has opened in Hong Kong's most prestigious university. At the inauguration of the Hong Kong...
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'Anarchists' on rampage
Several people were injured and property burned down or damaged from molotov cocktails thrown by a handful of "anarchists" and hooded "indignant citizens" during a university students' demonstration...
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Campus rabbis in sedition probe
Bar-Ilan University, one of whose law students murdered Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, has set up a committee headed by a retired judge to investigate claims of extremism on campus. The...
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Rectors enter French fray
University presidents stepped into the student-led fray over reforms in French higher education with their own list of demands and a flat rejection of at least one proposal by education minister...
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German rectors push fees charge
German university rectors have pledged to continue developing their plans for student fees, despite triggering almost universal opposition from politicians and students. Hans-Uwe Erichsen, president...