Engineers in clear
Three engineering professors are getting back over Can$300,000 (Pounds 150,000) after being cleared of any misuse of their research funds in an investigation conducted by the Natural Sciences and...
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Wooden bridge of peace across troubled waters
Five centuries ago, legend has it, a mystic stood on a sacred mountain in Central America and predicted an academic centre for peace would be built there one day. In December 1980, this dream was...
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Fertility clinic in eggs scandal
The first criminal charges have been brought in a fertility clinic scandal that rocked the University of California's Irvine campus and now threatens the university with a string of costly lawsuits....
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Student victory in debt crisis
Mexican students overseas have won a battle with their government to safeguard their grants from cuts in public spending programmes. When the Mexican exchange rate and foreign debt crisis broke in...
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League of their own
University league tables published in The THES this week are a by-and-large way of telling the public which institutions are "best" for what. They are a response to the demand for accountability, the...
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Un-Asian values
Indians make an enormous contribution to intellectual life today, particularly in economics and in the sciences. It is to be hoped that the recent election will not affect this adversely. On a recent...
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A profit scheme without honour
The concept of "profit" in relation to universities and colleges of higher education was until recently as alien to their staff as it was to officials at the Inland Revenue. However, the...
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Taylor misses innovation trick
Ian Taylor's article (THES, May 10) misses some very critical points. He rightly draws on the work of the Department for Trade and Industry's Innovation Unit. Indeed, if there are to be substantial...
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Orwellian mystery
I do not know where in Orwell's writings John Blundell (THES, May 3) found the injunction "This book should be read by everybody" referring to Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. The only place in Orwell's...
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Fertile fields of study
Hard-up biology departments are cutting field courses. Peter Cotgreave credits them with teaching him to think logically and scientifically and makes a plea for their retention. A friend who teaches...
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No aspersions on Henshaw
In the article on death in the air (THES, March 29), I am quoted as having stated that the National Radiological Protection Board saw Denis Henshaw's paper as a way of setting up his case for more...
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Postgraduate funds face strict test
Huw Richards's article (THES, May 10) on the Postgraduate Report which I chaired, it contains an important ambiguity which needs to be clarified before a myth gains currency. Our group has not...
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Free speech policy crumbles
Reading of the various attacks on the book The g Factor (THES, May 3) and its withdrawal by the publishers, it does occur to us that there is little point in having a policy to protect academic...
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Save law from universities' noose
The Lord Chancellor's report marginalises the influence of the legal profession, says Nigel Savage The first report of the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on legal education and training is a...
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Scholars rebuff partisan attack
Shula Marks's review of our Launching Democracy in South Africa: The First Open Election, April 1994 (THES, March 22) contains an all-out attack on our scholarly objectivity mainly, it would seem,...