The changing shape of higher education today and yesterday
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The number of full-time female students in UK higher education has risen from around 42% in 1982, to about 53% in 1998. Women are more likely to study courses related to medicine whilst male students are found mostly in computing, engineering and physics. The total number of students has risen to around 1,800,000 in 1997-98, from about 800,000 in 1980-81. Some 50% of new students in 1997-98 were aged over 21 years. The cost per student in higher education, according to prices for 1996-97, has fallen from about 7,000 pounds sterling in 1989-90, to about 4,600 pounds sterling in 1998-99.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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A known subversive: five and a half years ago, the wife of an Oxford academic was deemed such a threat to the military government of Burma that it placed her under house arrest. Today the world will discover if it feels safe enough to let her out
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Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of General Aung San, who led Burma to independence. She has been detained under house arrest in Burma for five and a half years after she was deemed a threat to the military government. She was concerned about the economic and political hardship on the streets of Rangoon and became involved in the democracy movement forming an opposition party, the National League for Democracy. She made many speeches and her popularity threatened the military regime.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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To shape a House that thereafter shaped us
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Issues concerning the history of the building of the Palace of Westminster, London, are discussed. Particular attention is given to the architectural competition launched in the nineteenth century to choose the design for the building and to the competition's winner, Charles Barry.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2001
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