Czech mates
All the old sixties' swingers will have been rushing to the phone after seeing a "to let" ad in Edinburgh University's staff bulletin for a "Bohemian Village Farmhouse". Alas, rather than being awash...
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High-tech and profit can mix
Conventional wisdom says engineers are not supposed to worry about economics and marketing, but Dave Auckland pays no attention to that sort of narrow-minded thinking. He might be the graduate dean...
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Oscar aids hip ops
Bone-shattering operations to replace defective artificial hips could be a thing of the past thanks to research at University College London, writes Alan Thomson. Academics in the college's Institute...
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Debt threat to public spirited
A huge increase in the number of United States graduate students borrowing money to pay for their education, has led to fears that costly loan repayments will further thin the ranks of those willing...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
There are lies, damned lies, statistics and bad timing. It is true that on July 31, 1995, when the survey was taken, Umist had no women professors in post. Several were in the glass pipeline, however...
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From gemstone to millstone
Marriage is bad news for women's careers. And, argues Jonathan Gershuny in the latest part of our series on work and the family, it is the husbands at home, rather than the boss at work, who is...
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Dearing targets cited
* Five working groups named to lead inquiry * Privatisation on the agenda * Super league seems likely Five working groups are to spearhead Sir Ron Dearing's official inquiry into higher education, it...
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Up to his neck
Breaking the record for the largest student overdraft is David Close of Northumbria University. He arrived home from his summer job, which he hopes will clear his debts by next term, to find a letter...
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Marriages made in heaven?
The Further Education Funding Council for England has a thankless task. Like the hapless guardian of 450 teenage kids, it has to distribute inadequate pocket money, offer advice and then take the...
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Graduates find degrees pay in jobs market
Graduates are getting a pay-back for their years at university, a study by David Armstrong at the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre has discovered. Of those earning less than Pounds 5,000 in...
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Trek from mean streets to masters
Almost ten years after leaving the streets of Regina, Canada, where she worked as a prostitute, Sharon Acoose left the city's university with a masters degree. Under her belt was a year-long research...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
The attention given in The THES to the so-called "glass ceiling", better described as the undervaluing and under-recognition of women academics, is most welcome. it prompts two thoughts about how to...
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The law of the jungle book
Sanjida O'Connell explains how she used her PhD thesis on chimps to write a novel, an extract of which is opposite. She felt like Jesus. All around her the field of flowers shimmered, slick with dew...
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Insect flies in for record
The only obstacle that stands between George McGavin and a verdict over whether he has discovered the smallest winged insect in the world is a pile of 11,500 dead arthropods waiting to be sorted. The...
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Graduates get short shrift on jobs front
Preliminary statistics from the 1995 graduate destinations survey show a shift from permanent to temporary employment contracts, say analysts. The Higher Education Statistics Agency released...