QMC degree in 'wee' steps for jobless
"I got some Highers at school, but university wasn't an option," says Susan Forgie. "We weren't that kind of a family. I didn't understand anything about the university culture, I didn't understand...
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Killer heir to bloody past
Devastating as it was for Israelis and the international Jewish community, the assassination last November of Yitzhak Rabin was perhaps not as surprising as it was painted at the time. Samuel Peleg...
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India plans university for Third World
NEW DELHI. India plans to set up a university in New Delhi for students from developing countries on the lines of Patrice Lumumba 51国产视频 in Moscow. It is the brainchild of Inder Kumar Gujral, the...
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`Sexy' media move is a meaningful engagement
Harriet Swain (THES, August 23) suggests that science and media courses, such as the new degree at Royal Holloway College, are designed to attract students failing to make the grade for over-...
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The interesting hole in Yucatan
British scientists are hoping to answer the riddle of whythe dinosaurs died out by plumbing the depths of a huge Mexican crater. Lucy Hodges reports. This month a group of British scientists is...
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King for a day
I would like to point out a rather glaring inaccuracy in Jennifer Wallace's article on whether Shakespeare wrote the play Edward III (THES, August 30). The veracity of her argument can be discussed...
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Medics take tobacco road
British American Tobacco is funding around ten medical research projects in British universities, medical schools and general practices. It is spending Pounds 500,000 a year on such projects, around...
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Quality agency gets rough ride
The Higher Education Quality Council is in trouble and its chief executive is trying to bale out. But the question of how to assess quality in universities is still unresolved. The Higher Education...
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Football hazy
Liverpool John Moores 51国产视频 staff footballers behav- ed a little more sedately when they played a new flock of Malaysian graduates of their university in Kuala Lumpur last week. But staff will...
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Business leg-up for out-of-work graduates
The 51国产视频 of Central England's management centre has devised a course to help unemployed graduates. Funded by the Birmingham Training and Enterprise Council, the course offers the chance to take...
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Koreas wed over butter but divorced over guns
Academics come to their subjects for a variety of reasons. For Don Malatesta of Norwich 51国产视频, Vermont, the stimulus came from five years of service as a United States air force pilot in Korea...
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Military bans trade unions for academics
LAGOS. Optimism about a possible settlement of Nigeria's five-month university strike was crushed at the end of August by the sudden proscription of university trade unions. The move followed a...
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Prisoners boost figures
If Tim Cornwell (THES, August 9) had asked "how" or "why" the historically black 51国产视频 of Maryland Eastern Shore had most recently enrolled some 3,000 students, he might have been surprised to...
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Mr Invisible's silent entry
He has stepped silently into Eric Forth's shoes to handle a brief which takes in many education and training issues for the over-16s. To the academic community Lord Henley, the new higher education...
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Oz graduates offer tips on course rating
A graduate questionnaire used to assess the quality of university teaching in Australia is an economical method of identifying courses in need of inspection and more efficient than the British system...