Law of the streets
Both the homeless and legal students are set to benefit over Christmas from a free advice initiative. Claire Sanders reports. When it was first suggested that students from the College of Law run...
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Poisoning data withheld
A leading geologist has accused a Natural Environment Research Council centre of withholding data about mass arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. The accusation comes in the week after the NERC launched...
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Concern at MASN target increase
Final figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show that 339,747 students accepted places at United Kingdom universities in September - a 1.5 per cent increase on last year. The...
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OU head leaves for challenge of Unesco's education effort
Open University vice-chancellor Sir John Daniel is to become assistant director general of Unesco, the United Nations' educational and cultural organisation, in Paris. Sir John said he was looking...
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Christmas crossword
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Looking at dwarfs and cool red giants
Henry Norris Russell
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Mind your head - falling rocks
As 2001 nears, Arthur C. Clarke warns Earthlings against space invaders during the coming century. Thanks to one of the most remarkable events in the entire history of astronomy, the names Shoemaker...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an ancient Greek philosopher: "Our own observation tells us that every state is an association of...
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Prophets of doom rise for an encore
Late Antiquity
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A seer who waged war on violent science
J. D. Bernal
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Transit from echo to original
The Shadow of a Saint
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Letter: Two-way race
Gary Craig writes that "the British government's attitude towards immigration is profoundly racist", asserting that it treats professional people better than refugees and asylum-seekers (Letters,...
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Letter: IT liberators(1)
I thoroughly agree with Jeffrey Henderson on how to compete with the United States ("To excel, simply remove red tape", THES, December 8), particularly on the use of transcripts detailing graduates'...
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Letter: Free of straitjacket
Frank Furedi makes two common mistakes among critics of quality assurance agencies ("Institutions wither in the quality straitjacket", Soapbox, THES, November 24). First, he lumps all external...
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Letter: Heretics under fire
In the five years I have subscribed to The THES, I have been struck by how often in articles distinguished scientists posit the existence of a God - even an immanent God. Does Peter Atkins ("Bishops...