Wages of sages
A few years ago, the civil service tried to hire me with a 30 per cent pay rise. I had been doing the job on secondment and found it less demanding than my academic post. If Sir Michael Bichard...
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Wages of sages
It was kind of Sir Michael Bichard to use his modestly remunerated position to comment on academic salaries. But one is always fascinated by the wider context of such comments. I wonder, for example...
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Catalogue of disaster
You suggest access to government records has improved since 1992 ("Pens poised, paper waits", THES, May 19). Until recently, after good access to Department for Education and Employment records for...
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Catalogue of disaster
It is distressing to read that papers are sitting in archives, effectively closed, because they have not yet been catalogued. One way round this could be to get librarian students on archival courses...
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Suspicious minds
Psychologist David Buss says "individuals diagnosed as 'pathologically jealous' often turn out to have partners who have strayed in the past, are straying or are contemplating straying" ("I love you...
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Up the minors
Geoff Watts's review of the Economic and Social Research Council "Children 5-16" programme ("Coping with mid-kid crises" , THES, May 19) was a useful reminder of the importance of children's own...
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On the trail of Down's
Down's syndrome diagnosis is changing. Clare Sansom looks at the latest techniques In the UK, about one baby in ten is born with some kind of abnormality. For most the defect is easily curable. But...
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UK biotech supremacy threatened
The UK biotechnology industry is the strongest in Europe, but the Germans are coming.Kam Patel reports A picture of a "pluralistic yet highly concentrated" system for the funding of biotechnology in...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
International history, I realise with hindsight, is a discipline strikingly bereft of Big Books, though it was unmistakably in thrall to Dead White Diplomats when I was an undergraduate. My degree...
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The battle over biology
Kam Patel talks to veteran zoologist Edward O. Wilson, whose controversial classic, Sociobiology , is 25 years old. The Harvard zoologist Edward O. Wilson has few regrets about writing Sociobiology...
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A dime for your sterling thoughts
It may not be a macho pursuit, but John Driffill could not resist adapting a major American economics text for European readers. Writing textbooks is not an activity universally held in high esteem...
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Everyone online, but who pays?
Universities and publishers should cooperate more if tomorrow's students are to be as well served for 'textbooks' as today's, says Mark Bide.The day of the "electronic textbook" has yet to dawn,...
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Minister rethinks X-ray for France
PARIS France's new research minister, Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg, last week presented his policies, most of them continuing and building on the programmes of his predecessor, Claude All gre. The...
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Time for a poor quota
Top universities should reserve places for pupils from deprived schools, says Andrew Pakes The chance of going to a so-called "top" university is less than one in a 100 if you are from a low-income...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...Frank Burdett disagreed with the recommendation of the Nuffield languages report that all students wanting to go to university must have a foreign-language qualification Harry...