Genetic assessment too early for insurers
IT IS too early for the insurance industry to make judgements about the implications of genetic testing, says a report from the Human Genetics Advisory Commission, which instead recommends a two-year...
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More young Scots take the higher road
A STEADILY increasing proportion of full-time higher education students are taking courses in further education colleges, according to the latest Scottish Office statistical bulletin. It shows that...
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FE support group to report by March
THE government has set up a Further Education Student Support Advisory Group, due to report by the end of March 1998, to look at how to improve financial support. Members are: chairman Graham Lane (...
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Tuition fees rebound on Irish
EDUCATION secretary David Blunkett has refused to budge on tuition fees despite continued fears that they will jeopardise educational opportunities for thousands of Irish students, writes Alan...
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Chairs
University of Oxford Thelma Holt has been appointed the ninth holder of the visiting theatre professorship and fellow of St Catherine's College. Miss Holt is a producer, founder of the Open Space...
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Inspectors fail Derby on teacher training
ONE university faces losing teacher training funding and three other institutions have a year to get their courses up to scratch following official inspections. The Teacher Training Agency announced...
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New government prefers to control
Nineteen-ninety-seven has been a dramatic year. In May the new model Labour party swept to power in the general election with an even larger majority than expected. A surge of euphoria greeted its...
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Losers in a numbers game
AS A lecturer in a 2-rated department trying to pull itself up on the crumbs of development money from the last research assessment exercise, it was with interest that I spent time recently visiting...
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Losers in a numbers game
I HAVE been told by my head of department at the Institute of Russian and East European studies, University of Glasgow, that my temporary contract will not be renewed when it expires in September...
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Breadth and the powerful
A Swedish- American friend told me some 35 years ago how eager his parents had been to buy a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. This was to ensure that he and his two brothers would have broad...
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Look out, there are customers about
When travelling I find it mildly disconcerting to be referred to as a customer rather than a passenger. The former implies a purposeful freedom rather than the relative imprisonment of, say, a high-...
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Treasury 'betrays' Labour pledge
THE Treasury is behind a deal struck with employers that betrays the government's public commitment to improve education and training for 16- and 17-year-olds, it has been claimed. Liberal Democrats...
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Tw(a)in lives
Inventing Mark Twain - The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain
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Castilians struck by rhyming
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Really gross domestic product
The Real Meaning of Money - Frozen Desire