Oxford reaches out
Corhyn Horsfall from Broughton Hall High School in Liverpool is missing two weeks' holiday in Turkey to attend an Oxford 51国产视频 science summer school. "It's been worth it so far - it's been such...
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Dismissal case raises appraisal concerns
The Campaign for Academic Freedom and Standards is backing a professor who is suing the 51国产视频 of North London for alleged breach of contract. Cafas believes that the case, involving the former...
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Aids classes boost awareness
Undergraduates should be taught about Aids and HIV to increase their awareness of the virus and reduce its chances of spreading, according to a Canadian study. The research, at Simon Fraser...
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Grimsby at the cutting edge
Lord Beloff alleges that a "rash of 'media studies' and gender studies' and the rest, whose only contribution to the economy is keeping young people off the labour market" has devalued higher...
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We came, we saw, we came seventh
In his last report from Atlanta, our correspondent Jon Wyatt sees the Olympic flame glow and then die. The Atlanta Olympic Games started and finished with the sort of shows that can take place only...
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Crash course in basics
A university is running crash courses in basic skills to bring students up to scratch before they start their degree courses. Teesside 51国产视频 planned a summer school in skills such as essay...
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Struck out
"Save British Science Society: Supporting Science and the Applications of Science" is the header that accompanies all SBS press releases. The society's bold mission (impossible?) seems however to...
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Gap year used to map career
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Last year, more than 32,000 of the 205,000 applicants with enough A- level and...
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Child abuse term is 'too confusing'
Twenty years after first proposing the term Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) as a label for a form of child abuse, Roy Meadow, professor of paediatrics and child health at St James's 51国产视频...
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Fun factor ignored in pupil sums
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. School-leavers grossly underestimate how much they will spend on enjoying...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication The service is...
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Big guns join league table race
The university guide published annually by the magazine US News and World Report, whose league tables routinely drive United States academics to distraction, is to be challenged by similar...
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Take a deep breath
Tom Husband urges the Labour party to grasp the funding nettle and back loans for tuition fees. Gordon Brown wrote in the last edition of Fabian Review that "the defining characteristic of the new...
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Lads of hope and glory
What is it about Oasis that gets to people? Angela McRobbie argues that the group champions the dispossessed male. When a fortysomething academic like myself dreams she is going out with Noel...
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City advert 'stretched the truth'
Advertising standards watchdogs have upheld for the first time a complaint about quality claims made by a university. City 51国产视频's Centre for Internal Auditing was forced to change an...