Glad tidings for the scientific entrepreneur
The white paper on competitiveness will nurture new links between business and science, says Peter Mandelson. Science and technology are the bedrock on which British industry must build for a...
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Science must still prove it is value for money
This year, British science has had the unexpected sensation of seeing real new money coming its way. This week's plethora of science announcements (pages 1 and 3), including the white paper on...
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Accountants and NVQs
Your item on the new vocational qualifications (THES, December 4) contained two false statements about national vocational qualifications that are commonly made and that do not assist efforts to...
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Speaking up for the lab animals
The fact that the Animal Rights Militia (THES, December 11) allegedly threatened to kill researchers if Barry Horne died on hunger strike should not be used as a pretext to condemn the entire anti-...
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Serious Scots
Readers could be forgiven for believing that much of the Scottish National Party's "People's Assembly on Education" was devoted to a row between the Association of University Teachers (Scotland) and...
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Return to the RAE
The past few issues of The THES have witnessed early signs of a return to obsessive concern with an oncoming research assessment exercise. Some of my time recently has been spent travelling, and it...
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Return to the RAE
An article by Alison Goddard (THES, December 11) covers our interim report on interdisciplinarity and the research assessment exercise. Unfortunately, the article misunderstands our research and...
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Firm footing for earth
Your coverage of the proposed closure of the department of earth sciences at the University of Sheffield (THES, December 4) fails to mention that the aim of restructuring is to position students and...
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Bright ideas
Celia Hampton's point that an academic paper can be used to found a patent application is an important one (THES, October 23). It means that an academic can establish his and/or his institution's...
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Grim and bear it
Students will be the losers with the redistribution of Oxbridge college fees, says Robert Stevens. Last week the Department for Education and Employment, in the best spirit of Christmas, issued its...
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Why I... think British museums should hand back their loot
Reader in contemporary cultural studies, University of Central Lancashire As a Glaswegian and an American studies lecturer, I was delighted at the recent decision by Glasgow City Museums to return a...
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Sex scandal has electoral impact
Conakry Claims that academics have sexually harassed students at Guinea's Universite Nationale have become a prominent issue in the run-up to the country's presidential elections next Monday. Thirty...
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Real crisis prompts strike two
Rio de Janeiro Brazil's university lecturers are threatening to resume their strike action - suspended during October's election campaign - in the new year, but are working extra hours unpaid to make...
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Students in exam time loop
Melbourne Sitting among his 500 peers at the University of Melbourne, the computing engineering student gazed at the final examination paper in horror. "Oh God!" he muttered. "This is just like the...
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Hong Kong
Two promising Chinese students will receive scholarships from the Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Bank to study at Ivy League universities in the United States this year. The scholarships cover the full...