Howler competition
Running a competition for the best howler might seem somewhat superfluous in the year that brought us the Scottish anomaly. But in the absence of a nomination for H.M. Government and its advisers,...
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Ambassador 'called police to beat students'
STUDENTS from the West African Republic of Benin studying at the Hassan II Royal University in Rabat, capital of Morocco, were beaten by police after occupying their country's embassy, their leaders...
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Private offshoot for state university
AUSTRALIA's second oldest university, Melbourne, has broken new ground by establishing a private offshoot, which it hopes will generate enough income for it to join the world's top-rank institutions...
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Iraq fears for lost generation
UNIVERSITY lecturers are heavily represented among the two million professionals officially estimated to have left Iraq since the Gulf war and the imposition of United Nations sanctions. Unofficially...
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Fight for doctorate blocked
A CALGARY researcher who is claiming unfair treatment by the Italian university authorities following a failed doctorate examination seven years ago is left with no apparent international recourse....
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Business elite head abroad
Gerard Valin has the task of steering France's top business school in an increasingly multinational direction into the new century. He arrived as the new director-general of Groupe ESSEC in January...
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Russians mug up on Latvian to gain status
THE citizenship dispute between Latvia and its former ruler Russia over rights for Soviet-era immigrants mean little to Gennady Ambalov and others like him working in a university system where, seven...
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The right to criticise
Janet Finch's rendition of "Stand by Your Man (and/or Woman)" ("In defence of CVCP", THES, August 7) is unconvincing. She is right to draw attention to the undoubted fact that some CVCP members lack...
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More RAE kickabout
Comparisons are frequently made between the football transfer market and the movement of top research staff between universities (THES, July 31), but the analogy should not be taken too far. Football...
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More RAE kickabout
I had hoped for a more considered reply on the RAE transfer market than that of my union general secretary, David Triesman (THES, August 7). He is right that the excesses should be curbed; but "...
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More RAE kickabout
I am a little bemused by the correspondence about the "RAE transfer market". Naively (or cynically), I assumed the RAE was intended to create a transfer market. It started life as a "research...
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Unsighted citations
John Rawlinson of the Royal Society says Alan Hirsch was not cited in ISI's Science Citation Index "because he publishes in biochemical journals and ISI doesn't recognise those" ("Citation circus...
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End Oxbridge MAs scam
I was pleased to see your story "Oxbridge MAs in danger" (THES, August 7). As someone who spent ten years in Cambridge, and who has one of these "degrees", I have long believed the system to be a...
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Labour's ghetto
Your opinion column (THES, July 31) stated that new Labour's Helen Liddell is "opposing the tide of Scottish Nationalism. In this higher education is likely to prove a useful ally. The universities...
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Soundbites not specialists speak most loudly
Media coverage of events in countries with unsavoury political regimes obscures the whole truth, argues Bill Watson Recent political events in Asia have been followed with keen attention by academic...