Edexcel under fire over exam confusion
Edexcel, the largest awarding body for post-16 vocational qualifications, came under pressure from colleges this week to overhaul the weak management that left exam results in chaos this year. The...
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Hodge makes promise to get tough on bogus degrees
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has announced a clampdown on bogus degree scams, warning that "organisations claiming to be universities are ripping off thousands of students around the...
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Scientist is shunned as cloning row rages
An international fertility conference and the association behind it are in disarray amid protests against Severino Antinori, the scientist who wants to clone a human being. The Italian embryologist...
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Fight the right war
We must not let the battle against terrorism turn into a clash of civilisations, writes Azzam Tamimi These are difficult times for Muslims worldwide, but in particular for those in Europe and America...
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Trying to find the wise words
Squeezing an analysis of terrorism into three minutes is no easy job, writes Lawrence Freedman I spent the afternoon of September 11, along with everyone else with access to a television, mesmerised...
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Why I think Mona Lisa became an icon
I was seven when I first saw the Mona Lisa . My mother had programmed me to be impressed: her eyes follow you everywhere and her smile is enigmatic. I did as I was told and was dutifully in awe....
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Russell elite go for jugular of ailing QAA
The elite Russell Group universities are demanding the abolition of all teaching-quality assessment, in defiance of ministers and students. In a confidential draft response to consultative plans for...
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Disaster celebrations claim untrue, says university A Brazilian university has said there is no basis to allegations circulated on the internet by one of its students that the film of...
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The civilization to be defended
Grenville Wall [ gren.wall@kolumbus.fi ] Friday 21 September 2001, 06: BST One of the very earliest jewels in the civilization the West wants to defend against terrorism is The Oresteia by...
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Dubious derivations resonate throughout a wavering work
Mathematics of Wave Propagation
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Page upon page of paradigm shifts
The Astrophysical Journal, American Astronomical Society Centennial Issue
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Traveller, poet and misfit of Mars
Percival Lowell
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Too many mysteries to clarify
Chaos and Harmony
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Room for one more eddy in a stream
Turbulent Flows
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Elegant spin on journey to the very heart of the matter
Quantum Mechanics