Sportswomen subjected to discrimination
Pressure on American universities and colleges to give women students the same athletic opportunities as men increased last month when a federal judge ruled that the Ivy League Brown University had...
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Data bank with blind spots
The third set of education indicators to be published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has grown yet again to meet what it calls "the increasing desire among OECD...
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How to nurture a nest egg
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. In the university business...
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2001: a Hubble odyssey
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Ancient tape-recorders that...
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Branded as fashion victims
If shop assistants suddenly start to ask you why you are buying a particular product, how it defines your identity and what life would be like without it - beware: they may be sociologists. For ten...
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Opt-out hordes trickle back
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Pension experts from lecturers...
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The binary line that divides the old and new
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Although it is three years...
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Teenagers feel need to steal for a game
Twenty-five per cent of teenagers would be prepared to steal a computer game if they could not afford it, according to a study to be presented at the BSA conference. Just over a quarter of the...
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Leaves hold key to solar energy
Glasgow University scientists have made a dramatic breakthrough in the understanding of photosynthesis which could open up the way for new ways of harnessing solar power. Neil Isaacs of Glasgow's...
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Culture of convenience from where women sit
Public loos, computer games and trainer envy will all be debated at this week's British Sociological Association conference, reports Claire Saunders. When Cardiff Council planned to build a public...
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Scientists take precautions
The way scientists think about their work is changing with the new "precautionary principle" of trying to minimise environmental hazards, according to the chairman of the Royal Commission on...
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Colleges join federal express
Two new university colleges were created in Wales last week when Cardiff Institute of Higher Education and Gwent College were accepted into the Federal University of Wales. The new institutions will...
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Euro project goes fishing for clues
A European research project led by British scientists could help to determine the threat global warming poses to freshwater fish such as salmon and perch. The danger to fish of climate change was...
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Hitting the buffers
Robert Sheldon MP, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, made a declaration to an audience of vice chancellors this week. He said: "The Universities Funding Council is a splendid buffer." The...
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Jenkin's email
(Photograph) - Jenkin's email . . . Colin Hempstead of Teesside University's school of human studies is to head a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project on the life of Fleeming Jenkin, a founding...