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QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE, EDINBURGH. Dr Derek Doyle, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners and an expert in the field...
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Students prepared to pay portion
People undergoing any sort of post-16 education should pay something towards it, according to a new survey of student representatives. But there should be no move to introduce top-up fees of the sort...
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Risk-takers show the way
Post-compulsory education from soup to nuts: not a new idea (what is?) but one which De Montfort University has set about realising with uncommon gusto (page 6). The move, pursued stealthily through...
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Foster points policy finger at Labour
The Labour party has been challenged by the Liberal Democrats to "put up or shut up" on its plans for further and higher educationfunding. Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education and employment...
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Crossfire in la Rue du Dragon
French intellectuals have regained a place on their country's political map. Stella Hughes explores their growing role Without leaving the Latin Quarter and its academic bookshops, university...
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A reluctant guru on matters between the ears
Howard Gardner talks to John Davies about his theory of human intelligence and his plans to write a book about unusual achievers If Howard Gardner is an authority on intelligence, he sometimes seems...
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The Bible bashers
Keith Whitelam explains to Simon Targett that the Jewish version of the Old Testament is a fiction designed to legitimise Israel and that the history of the Palestinian people has been silenced....
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Reality of ancient Israel
Keith Whitelam explains to Simon Targett that the Jewish version of the Old Testament is a fiction designed to legitimise Israel and that the history of the Palestinian people has been silenced....
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The heavy lid of the Mitterrand years
Asked in 1974 if he would vote for Mitterrand, Jean-Paul Sartre replied: "The problem is not to replace . . . I forget his name . . . ah, yes! Pompidou with Mitterrand. Mitterrand will be the...
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Jury out in the cold on science
Scientists must foster the public's trust in order to improve understanding of their work, argues John Durant In the midst of unprecedented scientific and technological progress our culture is beset...
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The chattering sexes
All-male and all-female groups converse differently. While women's voices combine and overlap, men take it in turns to hold court. Jennifer Coates explains Having friends is something most of us take...
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Regents' shot echoes
The story of affirmative action at the University of California is still continuing. The shot fired by the embattled farmers of the American Revolution was heard round the world. The Board of Regents...
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More cuts among the red herrings
Now that the full implications of the Budget statement have had time to sink in, the reality seems even grimmer than before and it is worth spelling out exactly why. For 1996/97 the Higher Education...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Plant collecting in Ethiopia with Discovery Expeditions leads me on a mini-expedition to the Simien Mountains National Park, leaving some specimens drying in their presses in a tent at base...
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Buddy, can you spare a fee?
Fees to pay or not to pay? Stephen Romer sounds a note of warning on the US experience Influential parties in United Kingdom higher education are beginning to think the unthinkable: students will...