Teacher-trainer divisions widen
BIAS against university teacher training providers is evident in the latest Teacher Training Agency funding allocations, the University Council for the Education of Teachers has alleged. The council...
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Sing-out sisters take over the pubs
KARAOKE is changing women's experience of pub culture by breaking down traditional gender roles, according to research. Whereas women once rarely entered pubs alone and usually occupied a secondary...
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New light shone on algae problem
AN eco-friendly method of removing deadly toxins produced by blue-green algae from drinking water has been developed by scientists at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Chemist Peter Robertson...
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Ancient Chinese got to heart of problem
MORE than 1,000 years ago the Chinese used a herbal preparation to ease heart pains that had a very similar effect to modern-day nitroglycerine. Information contained in a medical document discovered...
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Worst housing jeopardises Wales's recovery
Wales has the worst housing in Britain, and the oldest in Europe. And it will get worse, jeopardising hopes of economic recovery, without fresh investment. A report for the Institute of Wales, a...
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Sub-Sahara swings
ANALYSIS of the fossilised shells of minute lake-dwelling creatures may at least partially clear mankind of causing drought through global warming, according to new evidence from Kingston University...
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Full-frontal assault on storms
WHILE most of Britain was huddled under brollies over the past few weeks, 100 meteorologists from ten countries were relishing the stormy weather. The meteorologists, based for the past two months at...
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Whither weather?
The wettest February has followed the driest January. THES reporters look at the changing climate. THE storms that claimed the lives of seven people in one night were severe by any reckoning. But...
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Poor-paid staff join brain drain
STATE universities in Kenya have finally accepted that low salaries and poor conditions of service have led to a serious brain drain over the past ten years. Presenting their views to a government...
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Sop for student aid
South Africa is prepared to inject more money into its national student financial aid scheme this year to maintain black student numbers in higher education and avert threatened campus protests....
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Adelphi chief packs his bags
A POWER struggle at Adelphi University in the United States has ended with the summary firing of Peter Diamandopoulos, accused of exploiting the presidency of a modest-sized private college to fund a...
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Colleges rely on cheap labour
PART-TIME teachers now account for more than half of all university and college staff in the United States. Their presence helps institutions cut costs but has angered students and unions. There are...
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Open road to Hong Kong
THE NUMBER of universities in Hong Kong will have risen from two to seven in just ten years with the recent upgrading of the Open Learning Institute. A government spokesman said that the awarding of...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ's war on sex bias
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government has attacked universities for failing to swell the ranks of women in executive positions. Federal education minister Amanda Vanstone said that although women made up 46 per...
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Cash offer to keep professors at work
FERENC Takacs moonlights from his teaching job in the school of English and American studies at Budapest's ELTE University in the most literal sense. Most weeks the expert in Irish literature treads...