Twin wins fight for a place
A woman who claimed she suffered psychological damage because she was not given a place at the same medical school as her identical twin sister has won a significant victory over the Dutch university...
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Ukraine works to reform its jailers' mindset
International experience in prison reform is helping make Ukrainian penal colonies more humane as the republic struggles to shake off Soviet-era systems. A pioneering partnership project between the...
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Estonia suffers from army fall-out
A CAMPAIGN by the Estonian army to recruit young men for a year's service between school and university has flopped. Nationwide, only three young men have so far volunteered. The plan was that...
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Civil servants look west
TRAINING local government officers may not seem like a mould-breaking revolutionary activity, but the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration is leading the way in changing Ukraine education. It...
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Israel-Derby deal queried
Israel's Association of Secondary School Teachers has struck a controversial deal with Derby University to supervise teachers wanting to do a further degree at the British university's local...
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A question of money
UK universities' case for more public money is weak, says Stewart Wood in the third of a five-part series on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing HE The recently announced "...
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All hope, little glory
My colleague Mike Shattock makes some interesting points about our universities (THES, August 14). But the United Kingdom continues to live on past glories and overestimates its importance in world...
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Stranger danger
The article by the former head of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes, Derek Burke (THES, August 14), was very revealing and profoundly worrying. He seems to have understood his duty...
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A split definitive
Peter McGuffin ("At the cutting edge", THES, August 14) tells us that the reports of his claim to have discovered a gene for bad luck were embarrassing and inaccurate. The genetic inheritance his...
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Let's put this pension plan out to grass
LATER this year the government intends to issue a green paper on stakeholder pensions. Earlier this year the Association of University Teachers drew attention to the level of stress among university...
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Bit of Push and pull
I AM not surprised by the reactions of some universities to the flunk rates published in The Push Guide to Which University 99 (The THES, "Fury over flunk figures", August 14). They make...
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The fee degrees
I have an Oxford MA but, unlike K. D. M. Snell (THES, August 14). I regard it as as "real" degree, for which I studied hard. I now teach undergraduates who graduate with an MA, as students have done...
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The fee degrees
K. D. M. Snell is quite right. I hold two MAs that might be regarded as spurious. One is a Scottish first degree, requiring four years' study. The other cost me Pounds 5. 1 also have a postgraduate...
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Conflicting account
Your report on Phil Sabin's research into the mechanics of battle in the second Punic war unfairly criticises Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus for creating the impression that battles involving...
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Batting for learning the limited-over way
In the late 1950s the English started to realise that the loss of Empire inevitably affected cricket. It was a leisurely pastime that had to change for the modern world. The limited-over variation...