Stranger danger
The article by the former head of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes, Derek Burke (THES, August 14), was very revealing and profoundly worrying. He seems to have understood his duty...
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A split definitive
Peter McGuffin ("At the cutting edge", THES, August 14) tells us that the reports of his claim to have discovered a gene for bad luck were embarrassing and inaccurate. The genetic inheritance his...
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Let's put this pension plan out to grass
LATER this year the government intends to issue a green paper on stakeholder pensions. Earlier this year the Association of University Teachers drew attention to the level of stress among university...
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Bit of Push and pull
I AM not surprised by the reactions of some universities to the flunk rates published in The Push Guide to Which University 99 (The THES, "Fury over flunk figures", August 14). They make...
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The fee degrees
I have an Oxford MA but, unlike K. D. M. Snell (THES, August 14). I regard it as as "real" degree, for which I studied hard. I now teach undergraduates who graduate with an MA, as students have done...
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The fee degrees
K. D. M. Snell is quite right. I hold two MAs that might be regarded as spurious. One is a Scottish first degree, requiring four years' study. The other cost me Pounds 5. 1 also have a postgraduate...
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Conflicting account
Your report on Phil Sabin's research into the mechanics of battle in the second Punic war unfairly criticises Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus for creating the impression that battles involving...
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Batting for learning the limited-over way
In the late 1950s the English started to realise that the loss of Empire inevitably affected cricket. It was a leisurely pastime that had to change for the modern world. The limited-over variation...
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Asian flu spawns antibodies
When it became obvious about a year ago that certain Asian currencies were not going to regain their previous strength, several countries took drastic steps to stop sending students to study in the...
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Don's Diary
Monday Have been commissioned to write a book on Messianic Judaism, a new movement for Jews who believe that Jesus really was the Messiah after all. My wife and I are off to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
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Fellowships
School of Oriental and African Studies Honorary fellowships: Basil Davidson, historian and author, senior research fellow at the University of Manchester, visiting professorship at the universities...
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Chairs
UMIST J. Hassard, head of the school of management at Keele University, chair in organisational analysis; B. Quinn, head of the department of mathematical sciences, Goldsmiths College, chair in...
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ACU tipped to take over fee-waiver programme
Commonwealth ministers are determined to increase student exchanges. Elaine Carlton reports It is a battle of international proportions and one that the education ministers of the Commonwealth are...
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Quality watchdog acts fast
In the second of our series on access initiatives, Harriet Swain looks at how quality is assured QUALITY watchdogs have acted quickly to ensure government efforts to improve access to higher...
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The winding road to a kitemark
In the second of our series on access initiatives, Harriet Swain looks at how quality is assured REGISTERED access courses have had their own recognition scheme since 1989. Then it was run jointly by...