Trek from mean streets to masters
Almost ten years after leaving the streets of Regina, Canada, where she worked as a prostitute, Sharon Acoose left the city's university with a masters degree. Under her belt was a year-long research...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
The attention given in The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S to the so-called "glass ceiling", better described as the undervaluing and under-recognition of women academics, is most welcome. it prompts two thoughts about how to...
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The law of the jungle book
Sanjida O'Connell explains how she used her PhD thesis on chimps to write a novel, an extract of which is opposite. She felt like Jesus. All around her the field of flowers shimmered, slick with dew...
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Insect flies in for record
The only obstacle that stands between George McGavin and a verdict over whether he has discovered the smallest winged insect in the world is a pile of 11,500 dead arthropods waiting to be sorted. The...
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Graduates get short shrift on jobs front
Preliminary statistics from the 1995 graduate destinations survey show a shift from permanent to temporary employment contracts, say analysts. The Higher Education Statistics Agency released...
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Revisionist advice
A frustrated psychology professor at Simon Fraser University in Australia has issued the following advice on writing undergraduate essays. Avoid the library and stay at home among your well-worn...
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Nottingham Trent backs entrepreneurs
Graduates with a good idea are to receive thousands of pounds from a university in return for a slice of the profits should they make it in the business world. Bursaries of Pounds 6,000 each, plus...
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Old frigate's future is bright
Twentieth-century military technology is helping to preserve 19th-century military hardware in the latest stage of a unique research project at the University of Abertay Dundee. Scientists from UAD's...
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Mother endows suicide chair
A woman whose son took his own life has helped make possible an endowed chair in suicide studies at the University of Toronto. Doris Sommer-Rotenberg has helped raise Can$1 million (Pounds 490,000),...
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Running fever over glandular issues
Helen Wallace of Greenpeace (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, June 28) suggests that we take action on the basis of perceptions of problems rather than researched problems. The list of synthetic chemicals which might be shown...
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Internet news
Every week É«ºÐÖ±²¥SIS, The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features reviews and advertisements in the newspaper. Job advertisements are updated on the Tuesday before publication of...
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PFI gets v-c thumbs down
The much-vaunted private finance initiative - trumpeted by the Treasury as the answer to higher education's financial problems - is inappropriate and "unaffordable", according to vice chancellors....
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Start-up trouble
Alumnus to be proud of No. 60 went to Wandsworth Technical College and made what could be regarded as a false start in life, working as an assistant cashier at Wandsworth Co-op and then as a civil...
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Poverty raises suicide spectre
Growing anxiety over money could drive more undergraduates into suicide, according to the United Kingdom's leading depression charity. The Depression Alliance has already noted a growth in the...
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'Bandit', aged 1,500, gives France a headache
Some of France's most potent demons, extreme-right nationalism and the unhealed rift between Catholics and secular Republicans, have been awakened, if not yet fully unleashed, by the anniversary of a...