Black and white
I read the article by Nadia Lovell ("A case of mistaken identities", THES, December 10) with sympathy but no great surprise: she has unfortunately become a victim of political correctness in one of...
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Your article on a United States technical college spending $130,000 on a Y2K disaster plan ("US goes Y2K 'nuts'", THES, December 24/31) was only the tip of the iceberg. By the same token, the US is...
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Religious rethink
In his review of Joseph O'Keefe's Catholic Higher Education at the Turn of the New Century, part of a seven-volume series on international issues in higher education ("The appearance of incoherence...
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Tel Aviv
Israel's education ministry has launched a programme to enable students with low matriculation grades to be accepted by some of the country's universities, after a preparatory year at the Open...
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Guatemala City
Most of the 296 passengers on a Cuban DC-10 jet that crashed on landing, killing at least 26 people, were Guatemalan medical students studying in Havana returning home to spend Christmas with their...
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Teramo
Law students at the University of Teramo presented their theses and graduated before a commission of academics - one of whom was connected via computer from a hospital bed in Bologna, 600km away,...
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In brief
Your readers might be interested in the latest salaries for junior economics lecturers in United States universities now that the international hiring meeting has ended. In top US economics...
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In brief
Barry Tebb, in criticising public library charges (Letters, THES, December 24/31), suggests that university libraries jealously guard their resources from the public. Nonsense. The University of...
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In brief
The Cubie report may not have all the answers, but it is at least a tribute to all those who have protested about the inequity of tuition fees ("Cubie rejects upfront fees", THES, December 24/31). I...
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Military metaphor
You report that universities prepared for the millennium "with military rigour" ("Hogmanay tactics", THES, December 24/31). This was a sobering metaphor as it conveyed surprise that universities...
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A Wellcome thought
The Wellcome Trust is concerned about building a synchrotron at the Daresbury site, which is on a slight incline ("Wellcome bias stirs up unions", THES, December 10). The Japanese have built a...
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$25 million way to go
Kristi Coale examines the landmark deal between Swiss biotech giant Novartis and the University of California, Berkeley that frees researchers from the need to pursue funding and gives the company...
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Bett fails to win national support
Universities have voted overwhelmingly to negotiate lecturers' terms and conditions of work locally, posing a threat to the Bett report's central recommendation. Vice-chancellors are being asked to...
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Kindred spirits in South Yorks
Far from being considered neighbours from hell, students are largely seen as a welcome addition to the local community, at least in Sheffield. Steve Huckerby, studying for a joint geography-sociology...
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Tories launch assault on fees 'fudge'
Olga Wojtas on the latest reactions to the Cubie report into student finance. The Cubie inquiry was launched to take the heat out of political battles over tuition fees in the new Scottish Parliament...