Fair fare for Mars Express
IT IS disingenuous of my colleague Jasper Wall to contrast the landing of Nasa's Pathfinder mission on the surface of Mars with the decision to vacate the Royal Greenwich Observatory building in...
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Hands off, hands on
ALISON Utley's report on child abuse and Thomas Sambrook's book review on aggression (THES, July 11) make an interesting combination. Many social workers seem to hold the view, which probably has...
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Urban jumbles
YOUR "ECOCRITICISM" article was valuable and interesting but it repeats the persistent misconception that it is just about "nature writing" (THES, July 4). Since German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined...
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Lapping it up on sand
OH DEAR - Professor Lapping needs a holiday. His scorn ("thoroughly lower second") was unworthy of him. He has had a hard year; perhaps a fortnight on the beach at Teignmouth with a knotted...
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Keeping up with Welsh
THE SCHOOL of thought that the interests of Welshmen as individuals are best served by the destruction of the Welsh language, of which Christie Davies (THES, July 4) declares himself a member, is of...
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Poor show at access
"TAKE your positions now," proposes The THES (July 11) on the Government's pledge to widen access to universities. I took my position some time back. A year ago, I was head of social sciences at a...
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A right of entry for everyone
DESPITE the advent of mass higher education, access to university remains on the margins. Budget cuts make it difficult to hold the ground already gained, and higher education still serves as a form...
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How teaching has fallen for a big con
THE DEBATE about the relative merits of teaching and research in higher education and how to reward excellent performance is similar to the way people respond to the imaginary incentives they are...
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Secret cash for Ulster
A MYSTERY benefactor has donated Pounds 2.5 million towards the University of Ulster's "peaceline" campus in west Belfast. The university has refused to reveal the donor, believed to be an individual...
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Hate probe
The University of Central Lancashire has won Pounds 28,204 from the British Library to investigate racism on the Internet.
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Art to art
Art resources abound on the web. Two useful springboards are the sites maintained by Laura Baigorri at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (www.iua.upf.es/baigorri/ arte) and Guillem Ramos-Poqui,...
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Cities link
Manchester higher education institutions are joining in the Infocities project with Antwerp, Barcelona, Bologna, Helsinki, Nice and The Hague. Funded by the European Commission, the project will use...
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Big time: Oxford University Press's Pirye Prize
(Photograph) - The winner of the Oxford University Press's Pirye Prize, Ruskin student Miranda Millward's six-foot high Untitled No9, based on a birthday cake decoration, goes on display in its...
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Oxford Business School to get Pounds 20m
OXFORD University's new business school is to be bolstered by another benefactor. Neither the donor's identity nor the size of the donation are yet known, but a university spokesperson said an...
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The big catch
(Photograph) - The big catch: Oxford University invited high-flying inner-city state school pupils to a summer school this week in the hope persuading them to apply. But, for all the games in the...