A day in the life of superman-machine
A phone embedded in your ear, a teddy to record your child's thoughts, implants squirting neurochemicals to make you happy. Donald A. Norman describes the human body of the future. Technology changes...
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Pills, thrills and bellyaches
One in five of Britain's students is risking unwanted pregnancy by having unprotected sex. Should universities teach sex education? Helen Hague reports. One in four of Britain's students are risking...
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A very ordinary failure
Harold Wison's fixer Lord Goodman was not a crook after all, his biographer Brian Brivati has decided. His 'flaws' went far deeper than that. In Britain, in the years between the Profumo scandal of...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Recent-history revelations are everywhere this weekend: part two of BBC2's Spying Game, the finale of C4's Can't Pay,...
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Golden oldies
(Photograph) - Golden oldies: a student enrols at Goldsmiths College, University of London, for its PACE (professional and community education courses), which offer flexible education and training...
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Hunter gatherers
(Photograph) - Hunter gatherers: Hannah Northam and Miranda Wakeman from Stafford College of Art unveil their sculpture, Artemis of Versailles at Sandon Hall, Staffordshire to replace an original...
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Teaching the teachers
HEAD TO HEAD: standards debate The accreditation of lecturers is designed to improve learning in universities. Will it work? YES Caroline Bucklow Most people I know who teach in universities and...
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When a smile is a bad sign...
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE We must look not only internally but also at a cultural level to try to define a universal human nature. Steve Farrar reports The...
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Part-timers' lament
Hourly paid staff will soon have the right to claim their treatment is unfair. Amanda Hart urges lecturers to use the law "After 19 years' part-time service I am still not allowed to have a desk of...
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Warwick gives up advisory role
A round-up of the issues facing the CVCP at its meeting in Telford this week. Diana Warwick, chief executive of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, has stood down from a funding council...
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Bid to reduce bureaucratic burden
Blueprint The proposed new quality framework, currently subject to tense debate, is primarily designed to reduce the bureaucratic burden on institutions. There is a greater emphasis on universities'...
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Bett panel allays national pay fears
Members of the Bett committee on academic pay have attempted to allay concerns that the introduction of a national pay scale would reduce institutional flexibility. Workshops were full to overflowing...
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Quality assurance positions of the key players
HEFCE HEFCE has not agreed to abandon numbers. The joint funding council said last year. "It is highly desirable that the QAA assessments should include summative quantified ratings as well as...
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Cost of loans chaos mounts
Vice-chancellors and university officials are warning that institutions stand to lose hundreds of thousands of pounds in administrative costs because of expected student loans "chaos" this term. They...
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Cash for eight centres of ideas
The government has earmarked Pounds 25 million to set up eight university centres of enterprise to encourage scientists to turn their ideas into commerce. Stephen Byers, secretary of state for trade...