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  1. 'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 3

    If I am to believe your article, I work for a "failing" university that is on a "critical list". All because of some very specific adverse comments in a QAA review. Recent reviews of engineering and...

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  2. Wages for sages 1

    I totally agree with Alan Ryan ("Why I...", THES , May 31). No rational person would become an academic in Britain given the remuneration. I recently saw advertised a postdoctoral position based in...

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  3. Wages for sages 2

    Alan Ryan sensibly suggests that "British academic life has become unviable". On other pages, the School of Oriental and African Studies advertises for a director of a project on endangered languages...

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  4. Wages for sages 3

    As an admirer of your former editor, I enjoyed the front-page suggestion that she and I might non-accidentally have left our jobs simultaneously ("Ryan quits", THES , May 31). Still, it's funny to...

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  5. Collegiate claims

    As a humble FE lecturer I hesitate to take issue with Lord Briggs's elegant review of volume VII of The History of the University Oxford (Books, THES , May 31). There may, however, be one minor...

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  6. Figures of speech

    Many statistics quoted by senior public figures on the proportion of students receiving local education authority support for tuition fees are based on estimates rather than on actual figures. We...

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  7. So what are they for? 1

    I agree with Andrew Oswald that Britain needs independent universities, but not that "real universities are research institutions... and not, repeat not, primarily places of teaching" (Soapbox, THES...

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  8. So what are they for? 2

    Andrew Oswald's view that universities are not primarily places for students will bewilder funding councils, most academics and the hordes of young people on campuses who are wandering around under...

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  9. Laurie Taylor column

    For: THES From: Professor G. Lapping Dear Sir, I discovered a reference in last week's THES to your current editor's impending departure. May I wish Auriol Stevens a happy retirement. She will, as...

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  10. Leader: Expensive new students need more resources

    Our analysis of the easiest and hardest British universities to get into shows that there is indeed an elite group of institutions whose members are successful at attracting both research funding and...

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  11. Leader: Painful streamlining is not the solution for SA

    It is eight years since South Africa's return to democracy and the beginning of the reconstruction process that promised so much to the country's oppressed majority. But the process of transformation...

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  12. Swiss research agreement with EU comes into force

    Brussels, 05 June 2002 Seven bilateral agreements, including one related to research, signed by Switzerland and the European Union in 1999 have entered into force. The agreements, drawn up following...

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  13. Scientists carry out airborne arctic survey

    Brussels, 05 June 2002 European scientists braved the cold to carry out an airborne survey of arctic gravity in early May. The European Survey of Arctic Gravity (ESAG-2002) was successfully carried...

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  14. Star Tiger to unveil submillimetre wave secrets

    Paris, 05 June 2002 The Star Tiger team today begins a four-month pioneering research and development project at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), which could lead to a real breakthrough for...

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  15. ARD on show at Cité de l’Espace

    Paris, 05 June 2002 ESA's Atmospheric Re-entry Demonstrator has now arrived at Cité de l’Espace in Toulouse, France where it will form part of the Ariane 5 launcher exhibit. The ARD is Europe’s first...

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