Bar to query race gap in pass rates
An investigation has been launched into why Bar School students from ethnic minority groups continue to be out-performed by their white peers. The Council of Legal Education has commissioned Birkbeck...
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Participation down. . .
The percentage of 16-year-olds opting to remain in full-time education has fallen for the first time in a decade, according to unpublished research from the Institute of Education. The average annual...
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New crisis post-16
Work, full-time study or a training course? As young people juggle their options this week, new research warns universities and colleges of a looming "crisis" with post-16-year-olds beginning to turn...
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Green team
Denton Hall, the international law firm, is sponsoring a new environmental and law management group at Imperial College, London. The aim of the group is to help lawyers better their understanding of...
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Reith lecturer
Next year's Reith Lectures will be delivered by Jean Aitchison, Rupert Murdoch professor of language and communication at Oxford University, with a series of five lectures entitled The Language Game...
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Smoke signals
Smokers in their 30s and 40s have five times as many heart attacks as non-smokers, according to the largest study in the world of heart attack survivors. The Medical Research Council, British Heart...
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IRA prisoner issue 'strains' Irish peace
As serious disturbances again erupted in Northern Ireland, a peace studies expert is warning that the fragile peace process is being put under needless strain by delays in the transfer of Irish...
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Balancing act
(Photograph) - Balancing act: Steve Faulkner has been selected for the first academic circus and performing arts course at the former Hackney power station in East London, to be run by The Circus...
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Blue skies to sky blue
Alec Broers, a David-sized engineer with a Goliath reputation, exudes a boyish enthusiasm as he rushes through the multi-million pound research laboratory along Trumpington Street, pointing out the...
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A-level grades up
One per cent more pupils have achieved A-level grades A to C then last year, according to the A-level boards who published their results yesterday. There is also a 0.9 per cent increase in the...
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A little thanks for the memory
One school of thought has always held that, as institutions at the intellectual cutting-edge, universities should encourage architectural innovation. But the example set by the School of Oriental and...
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Students demand fee refund
Mature students taking a counselling certificate are demanding compensation from Glasgow Caledonian University Company for breach of contract over their course. The students, who include a nun, a GP...
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Arab call for jobs in Israel's academia
Israeli Arabs have appealed for government support for more tenured Arab staff in universities. In a letter to Amnon Rubinstein, minister of education, a group of Arab academics said that, despite...
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Worth more than my job, mate
When Huw Beynon published his first book it met with jeers and denials. He tells Martyn Kelly about the trials of investigating the shop floor. When I was a student I was strongly influenced by E. P...
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Summer breeze?
Academics, it is commonly supposed, spend their time during the summer getting intimate with Tuscany. So The THES asked four of them what they area ctually doing. John Kidd Director of the James...