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Puritans' zeal fertilises the mind
Articles of Faith
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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
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Laurie Taylor Column
Italian students tend to drop out of university because ofthe sadism of their professors - Report by dean of psychiatry, University of Sassari, Sardinia, THES, March 14 You know what this is all...
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Why I fear debt will make women rethink plans to study at university
Debt levels are already bad enough for women. Despite equal opportunities legislation, women still earn on average less than men, and there is no sign that this is changing, hence it takes longer for...
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Leaders: England's plans test the strength of devolution
Nowhere has the impact of devolution been more obvious than in education - and higher education in particular. Upfront tuition fees have been abolished, school league tables abandoned and initiatives...
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Leader: Tories tough on talk but weak on consistency
Tory leaders have faced much criticism from their own supporters for their low profile on higher education, particlarly when ministers were on the defensive over top-up fees. But there was a logic to...
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The 'grey-goo' gang takes on humanity's little helpers
Stephen Phillips asks if scare stories will stifle nanotechnology at birth. If there is a road map for solving today's most pressing material and medical ills, chances are it will run straight...
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'This will be like no other debate'
Derek Burke, who fought anti-GM groups, counsels science to fight nanotechnology. Scientists must organise, speak up and use pressure-group tactics to fight the opponents of nanotechnology. A few...
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Poisonous pens write media out of picture
Journalists and their trade, in print, on air and online, are under fire - and much of the criticism is deserved. Those who care about a quality press must join the global debate, says Ian Hargreaves...
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A glamorous and seductive style that was exquisitely in tune with the 'moderne' world
Art deco infused fantasy and vitality into everything from music, fashion and product design to decorative arts, Hollywood films and city skylines across the globe. Ghislaine Wood reports. Art deco...
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'I was a lesson: don't speak out'
Egypt's top court has freed an intellectual after three years' imprisonment under anti-terrorist laws. But Saad Ibrahim's real crime, he tells Phil Baty, was to criticise the government. It...
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Fun with sadists 2
I note that a study of students has found that many Italian professors are believed to be sadists, while others are afflicted with neuroses or worse. Indeed, but the students have failed to...
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Women's pioneer
Hilda Brown ("Sex and the Hildabeast", THES , March 7) writes that "the five (Oxford) women's colleges played a heroic role in advancing higher education for women in the 20th century", but it is...
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More oiks at Oxford
So the university access regulator has been set up to leaven the effete gene pool of Hooray Henries and Henriettas in our top universities with the odd bit of rough. Who cares? Those who've spent...