Laurie Taylor column
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Leader: Spend on research, not its Byzantine grading
The Higher Education Funding Council for England's decision to cut all but 5* research in this year's funding allocations has understandably provoked uproar. Was it for this that so many people...
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Leader: Up fees for rich and help the poor - and do it now
MORI's latest opinion poll for Unite has two particularly striking findings - apart, that is, from the astronomical amount a minority of students spends on drink. First, most of today's students...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics' 1
How we might best understand the suffragette movement and the role of the Pankhurst family in it is a matter of heated dispute ("The Pankhursts - politics and passion", THES , January 25). But while...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics' 2
June Purvis raises important questions about Martin Pugh's use of evidence, his disregard for the rights of an informant and his interpretations of the suffragette movement in his book, The...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics'
Pugh does not engage with the ethical and intellectual issues that Purvis raises about writing biography. His attempt to demonise her as the "mad woman in the attic" fails miserably since scholars...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics' 4
Although I cannot comment usefully on the merits of Pugh's book, my personal experience shows that June Purvis believes that men can contribute to women's history. The pages of Women's History Review...
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Letter: RAE stacks odds 1
I have been watching the latest research assessment exercise unwind. It seems highly unlikely that the unprecedented improvements in ratings reflect genuine improvements as opposed to grade inflation...
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Letter: RAE stacks odds 2
Is undergraduate teaching a major contributor to high-quality research in the sciences - as was considered by the Robbins report in the 1960s - or an encumbrance? Using 1996 figures from the Higher...
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Letter: RAE stacks odds 3
Historians at Huddersfield also raised their RAE score from 3a to 5 but without recourse to professional sleuths. Nor was it viewed as achieving the "almost impossible". Rather it was the outcome of...
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FP6 for research sent to EP, with statements from Council, Commission and member states
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological...
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Prior information on study to evaluate integration of sustainability into Community policies
Brussels, 30 January 2002 The European Commission has issued prior information on a call for tender for an evaluation of the approaches to integrate sustainability into Community policy. The...
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Informal Seminar of EU Ministers for Industry and Research seeks to boost innovation
Brussels, 30 January 2002 The Spanish Presidency of the EU is organising the first ever joint meeting of EU Ministers for Industry and Research in an informal seminar to be held in S’Agaró (Girona)...
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Improving mobility in the city through research
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Invitation to a Press Conference Brussels - European Parliament, 31 January 2002, 11.00 Every citizen dreams of spending less time in traffic jams, away from polluted air,...
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Europabio praises Commission biotech strategy
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Europabio, the European association for bioindustries, has welcomed the announcement of a new European Commission biotechnology policy which aims to help make Europe the...