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Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face serious economic and social problems as it rebuilds its divided society. The gap between expectations among the non-white communities and the reality of...
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Avoid logging on to despair
A sceptical Dorothy Zinberg faces the dark side of internet euphoria and urges a little cyber restraint. Long before the Nasdaq's unexpected 50 per cent plunge almost a year ago, I had begun to...
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Why the academics weighed in with the ad men to confront a growing nutritional concern
Kellogg's two-week challenge diet might sound like a dubious marketing scam for breakfast cereals, but it is backedby some leading nutritionists, writes Olga Wojtas The cabbage soup diet. The steak...
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Scottish jobs spring
A new strategy bringing academics and industrialists together to commercialise Scottish research in science and technology could create at least another 11,000 jobs over the next ten years. This...
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Great idea, but what's in it for us?
The government says regional development agencies will be the engines of enterprise. However, as Tony Tysome explains, the advantages for higher education are unclear and rather unexciting Chancellor...
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How to... design mix 'n' match courses
WHAT Ronald Barnett, Kelly Coate and Gareth Parry make sense of study programmes. WHY Curriculum planning is a complicated, yet necessary part of improving degree quality. HOW The undergraduate...
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When you're old, who cares how you die?
Doctors' failure to recognise that her mother was suffering from CJD alerted Judith Okely to the medical profession's inherent ageism. The crisis over mad cow disease has shown how scientific...
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For the record
Minister hits back at AS level flop claims Education minister Baroness Blackstone has hit back at claims that the new advanced subsidiary qualification is a flop with universities, schools and...
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How to develop a world of problems
Poverty and Development into the 21st Century. Second Edition
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Size does matter in computer future
Liverpool scientists unveil nanoscale electronic components that build themselves. The electronics industry underwent a fundamental change with the invention of the transistor, paving the way for the...
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Blair's 'feeble' dream
TONY BLAIR's dream for a truly learning society is based on "incomplete, one-sided and feeble theory", says one of the UK's leading educationalists. Frank Coffield, who delivered the King's College...
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Universities urged to put the future first
Universities need to focus on the future instead of just funding if they are to keep in touch with the business world, the National Advisory Committee for Creative and Cultural Education reported...
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Northwest rises to the challenge
A group of universities is leading the drive to be at the centre of wealth creation. Kam Patel reports. The government's push to make universities more entrepreneurial should be allied to a...
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Netgazette
APPOINTMENTS University of Edinburgh Professoressor James Ironside has assumed the role of Director of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit. Under management restructuring plans...