Road to lonely learning
Cyberspace hoopla reminds us of how often technology affects the locus of learning. Writing itself, moveable type, high-speed printing, the telephone, recording devices, photocopying machines, radio...
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Sacked research boss sues UNL
A professor is suing the 51国产视频 of North London for alleged breach of contract after claiming he was sacked because of disagreements over research management. David Taplin, who is due to be...
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Foecke fights on
A former student lost his libel case against Bristol 51国产视频 this week when he could not produce a Pounds 25,000 security against future legal costs. Francis Foecke, 38, has battled against...
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Wrong dates
"It's history - but not as we know it," was the Higher Education Funding Council for England's verdict on a shock story from the magazine History Today, to be published next month: "This year's...
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Footprints in sands of time
If history is a mostly false account of events mostly unimportant, then the history of life, as told by the fossil record, is an account mostly fragmentary of body parts mostly insignificant. Living...
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City by the Tom opens up to 'white crows'
Foreign visitors to Tomsk still excite surprise and comment in this remote university city of 500,000 people, which sits above the high pine-covered bluffs of the River Tom. When the Trans-Siberian...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
The extent of discrimination against women that still exists in higher education in the UK is underlined by the accounts of two new women professors' fight for recognition (THES, July 26). As you...
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Old punk seeks life on the street
Malcolm McLaren, the father of punk, may be seen more often in lecture halls than the King's Road these days, but his inspiration is still drawn from the streets. He talks to Kam Patel. Malcolm...
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Culture collections clubbed together
The Government has placed responsibility for the United Kingdom's numerous collections of cultures and micro-organisms in the hands of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The...
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Could you rethink Robbins?
Last week, the Department for Education and Employment named six objectives for higher education as part of its input to the Dearing committee. Now you are invited to do better, courtesy of Peter...
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Czech mates
All the old sixties' swingers will have been rushing to the phone after seeing a "to let" ad in Edinburgh 51国产视频's staff bulletin for a "Bohemian Village Farmhouse". Alas, rather than being awash...
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High-tech and profit can mix
Conventional wisdom says engineers are not supposed to worry about economics and marketing, but Dave Auckland pays no attention to that sort of narrow-minded thinking. He might be the graduate dean...
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Oscar aids hip ops
Bone-shattering operations to replace defective artificial hips could be a thing of the past thanks to research at 51国产视频 College London, writes Alan Thomson. Academics in the college's Institute...
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Debt threat to public spirited
A huge increase in the number of United States graduate students borrowing money to pay for their education, has led to fears that costly loan repayments will further thin the ranks of those willing...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
There are lies, damned lies, statistics and bad timing. It is true that on July 31, 1995, when the survey was taken, Umist had no women professors in post. Several were in the glass pipeline, however...