Letter: Toying with internet
I remember when pushing the boundaries on computer networks was the accepted norm ("Was Janet 'raped' by a nerd?", THES , August 10). Today's internet activities require confidence and reliability of...
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Leader: Simple salve to heal the quality rift
University leaders may welcome John Randall's departure from the Quality Assurance Agency, but it could turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory. That will depend on whether ministers consider the new regime...
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The naive optimist
Bjorn Lomborg has grabbed headlines by questioning the value of the Kyoto Protocol. But while Lomborg might be a sceptical environmentalist, he is no Bu****e propagandist, argues Fred Pearce. I'm not...
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Take the road to a musical paradise
Students with a bit of money can escape for a summer of music among the stars. Christopher Wood reports. Music students not constrained by poverty to toil in a pub or a burger bar during July and...
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Is time merely the measure which we fall apart?
Time appears to move in a single direction - in which order is gradually replaced by chaos, says Mark Buchanan. But if this is so, how did the universe achieve its initial state? What is time? "If...
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How Mother Nature makes a super Father Time tick
Time can be 'clocked' in different ways but how old is it and does it have a future? John D. Barrow reports. Until the early years of the 20th century, time was seen as an inflexible ticking clock...
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From today's UK papers
Guardian The resignation of John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, has been greeted with glee by universities Independent Aaron Hertzmann, of New York University, has...
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Only half reach grade C in GCSE maths Record numbers of pupils have passed their GCSEs, but more than 40 per cent of all candidates are still failing to achieve grades A to C in core...
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Yale student missing in South Africa South African police are searching for a Yale University student who has been missing for three weeks after finishing a Zulu language course at the University of...
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Clarke bids for university vote Conservative leadership candidate Kenneth Clarke this week promised a compact between the state and universities. His personal manifesto to Tory members said: “I want...
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From today's UK papers
Independent After years of despair over their academic development, boys will narrow the gap with girls in top-grade GCSE success for the first time in the exam's 13-year history, according to...
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Jailed students die in Eritrea Two University of Asmara students held in Eritrean government detention with about 2,000 others in temperatures of up to 49C have died in the past week. The students...
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Randall quits as QAA chief John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, has announced his resignation. He was known to be furious that he had been bounced by ministers and...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph A BBC documentary that has genetically tested 2,500 British men for traces of Viking DNA has concluded that the Dark Age raiders left behind far more than burnt villages and murdered...
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Alexander launches Glasgow 'culture campus' Wendy Alexander, Scotland’s minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, today opened the £6 million first phase of a £16 million “cultural campus” in...