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Middle-class students were reportedly recruited to fill empty places in summer schools because too few students from under-represented groups "met the criteria" ("Poor fail to fill access places",...
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Authors identified
Alan Story makes the fair point that the Copyright Licensing Agency system is unable to identify individual journal articles and thus, if appropriate, to route payments to the authors of those...
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Campus competition
It is a great pity that another well-known campus-life writer is not mentioned in "Spreading the word on campus" (Features, THES, September 22). That writer is Kingsley Amis, whose Lucky Jim and...
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Campus competition
Further to Graeme Harper's excellent outline of the benefits of creative writing on campus, as one of the first two PhD students at Essex in this field, can I point out two more useful examples?...
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Pay slip-ups
Sarah Fitzpatrick's article ("Fee cap will close gates to the less well-off", Opinion, THES, September 1) suffers from an unthinking acceptance of untruths in the Greenaway-Haynes report. How is it...
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The Dome has done the business
The Dome is a major asset to London and it offers great opportunities to higher education, says Rick Trainor It is popular and easy to knock the Dome as financially extravagant and lowbrow. It calls...
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Cutting edge
Being able to swim like a shark is a question of drag, and scientists at Mie University have the means to measure this factor precisely Humans have long dreamt of being able to swim like fish,...
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Europe seeks return to form
Germany and France both want to revitalise their research sectors by injecting cash and giving youth more scope. Jennie Brookman reports from Frankfurt. Germany has lost its leading position in...
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Autumn leaves become clear
One of the most striking features of nature is the autumnal colours of leaves. Why leaves change pigment so dramatically is a mystery. The conventional explanation is that the green pigment used to...
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More mess, less stress
Workplace clutter may be a sign of a happy office. Meredith Wells, a psychologist at Eastern Kentucky University, in the United States, has discovered meaning amid the personal items found on desks....
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Sources of research funding
Each week we list funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk BRITISH COUNCIL, ITALY www.britishcouncil.it British-Italian Joint Research Programme...
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For young, new day is dawning
Germany and France both want to revitalise their research sectors by injecting cash and giving youth more scope. Jane Marshall reports from Paris. French research minister Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg...
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Are GM crops destroying America's regal inhabitant?
As Greenpeace protesters are acquitted of criminally damaging GM crops, Julian Morris says it may be morally wrong not to take a risk that gives third world peoples hardier, life-saving crops. JOHN...
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Star Turn
Julian Richards meets a maths professor who started out as a carnival magician Persi Diaconis is no ordinary magician. Come to that, he is no ordinary professor of mathematics and statistics. He...
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How to save students from boredom
WHAT: Paul Sander and Keith Stevenson believe academics should listen to what students say about teaching style. WHY: Responding to students' fears and expectations can help improve courses and...