University challenged over block on degree
AN ITALIAN student has taken her university to the European Court of Human Rights over its decision to block her graduation because she has completed her degree in three years rather than the four...
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Cafe society drives ideas off the menu
The Astronomer Royal was unequivocal. There was, alas, no staff club on the island in Sue Lawley's Desert Island Discs. He would miss the stimulation, inspiration, correction and indeed the company...
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Blunkett's time to make up his mind
Next week the report of the committee of inquiry into higher education will be published. Thanks to the working habits of the chairman, Sir Ron Dearing, the ground has been well prepared. Interest...
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Gene patents rattle scientists
THIS WEEK's decision on biotechnology patenting in the European Parliament is of more than passing interest to Britain's science community. Redrafting the European Biotechnology Patent Directive,...
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Students on the game
A Barclays Bank survey on student debt looked at how youngsters cope with little money. For some, David Barrett finds, the answer lies in prostitution CHILDREN and sex are a volatile mixture. Having...
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Don't shoot the gallery
Marcia Pointon defends university museums and art galleries against the 'think the unthinkable' lobby FINAL-YEAR students and their parents partied in the Whitworth Art Gallery earlier this month....
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Partners in that F word
IN THE light of the post-Kennedy discussions about the proper funding and other balances between further and higher education, may I propose the biggest quango of them all. A merged single overseer...
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English in alien attack
Radhakrishnan Nayar (THES, June ) seems rather upset by Arundhati Roy, Ian Jack and Salman Rushdie because he suspects that English is an alien medium, and therefore quite incapable of representing...
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Fair fare for Mars Express
IT IS disingenuous of my colleague Jasper Wall to contrast the landing of Nasa's Pathfinder mission on the surface of Mars with the decision to vacate the Royal Greenwich Observatory building in...
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Hands off, hands on
ALISON Utley's report on child abuse and Thomas Sambrook's book review on aggression (THES, July 11) make an interesting combination. Many social workers seem to hold the view, which probably has...
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Urban jumbles
YOUR "ECOCRITICISM" article was valuable and interesting but it repeats the persistent misconception that it is just about "nature writing" (THES, July 4). Since German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined...
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Lapping it up on sand
OH DEAR - Professor Lapping needs a holiday. His scorn ("thoroughly lower second") was unworthy of him. He has had a hard year; perhaps a fortnight on the beach at Teignmouth with a knotted...
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Keeping up with Welsh
THE SCHOOL of thought that the interests of Welshmen as individuals are best served by the destruction of the Welsh language, of which Christie Davies (THES, July 4) declares himself a member, is of...
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Poor show at access
"TAKE your positions now," proposes The THES (July 11) on the Government's pledge to widen access to universities. I took my position some time back. A year ago, I was head of social sciences at a...
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A right of entry for everyone
DESPITE the advent of mass higher education, access to university remains on the margins. Budget cuts make it difficult to hold the ground already gained, and higher education still serves as a form...