Letter: Some choice facts (2)
From your comments on the appointment of an AUT general secretary, we can expect that next time there is a vacancy for The THES editor, there will be no interviewing panel. All those who fancy the...
From your comments on the appointment of an AUT general secretary, we can expect that next time there is a vacancy for The THES editor, there will be no interviewing panel. All those who fancy the...
The Equal Opportunities Commission is correct in saying that positive discrimination is illegal under the Sex Discrimination Act ("Macho, white culture to go", THES , November 2). But positive action...
It is a sad truism that the history of equality and diversity policy is one of two steps forward, one step back. I am sure I am not alone in welcoming Cambridge University's decision to finally...
Women in science who do not have children are more vociferous than those who do, it appears ("Science and the family don't mix", THES , October 12). But in physics, a majority of the women who hold...
Sam Leinster states that the titles of nurse and doctor will become obsolete in the brave new world of healthcare because practitioners will be identified not by professional label but by their...
The hiring system in France does not work fully as Ruth Morse describes it (World View, THES , October 12). PhDs must register in October with the government's candidate list for the following year's...
Belfast unveils £150m revamp appeal Queen’s University Belfast has launched a £150 million fundraising campaign. It plans a wide range of building projects from an 1,800-place student...
British youth 'most ignorant' about EU Eurobarometer, the European Commission's polling arm, found that Britons aged 15-24 are more ignorant about, and have lower expectations of, the European Union...
Student dies in Colombian campus demo A Colombian medical student died during a violent march by hooded demonstrators at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá. Carlos Geovanny Blanco Leguízano was...
'Blame inequality, not bin Laden', says novelist Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes told students and professors at the Universdad de Buenos Aires that injustice and social inequality, and not Osama bin...
Mankind's 'first tools' unearthed A tool kit carved from bone 70,000 years ago provides the strongest evidence yet that Africa was the birthplace of complex technology. Christopher Henshilwood of the...
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