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Last week in The THES... Nick Coleman criticised the handling of last year's campaign of industrial action. * I too feel angry at being let down by the executive of the Association of University...
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A wake-up call for all
Form-filling, auditing ... academics are swamped by bureaucracy. Frank Furedi calls a halt. Back from a great Christmas holiday. Ready for action. Imagine how my heart sinks when confronted with a...
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More than a supporting role
After years of funding cuts and the introduction of fees, this week brought the first good news for students in a long time. At last, the talk is no longer of whether students need more money, but of...
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Cutting edge
'The programme is too short to generate new mutations. Will the result be a genuine quagga or merely a fraudulent lookalike?' The quagga, extinct since 1883, may soon be roaming the plains of South...
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Oxbridge brains reunion at MSR
Tony Durham meets the men directing Microsoft's innovative research programme in Cambridge The retired head of the Cambridge University computer laboratory holds forth as he paces the room, while the...
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Solving the mystery of the thinning egg shells and other conservation whodunnits
As extinction rates explode, Cambridge University is seeking to set up a professorship of conservation of nature. Pauline Hunt reports From Anglo-Saxon times to the Middle Ages, villagers near a...
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Neolithic Scots kept off hard stuff
Neolithic Scots may have been a more sober lot than recent investigations have suggested. Apparent evidence for the ritual consumption of hallucinogenic substances found inside a Stone Age henge...
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Pro footballers not in safe hands
They might be increasingly well paid but the medical support enjoyed by England's professional footballers has been found to be woefully inadequate. A new study has shown that half of all league club...
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Polio invader caught on camera
Like a closed-circuit television picture of burglars breaking into a home, scientists have caught a polio virus in the process of entering a host cell for the first time. The three-dimensional images...
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Blunkett is targeted on equal pay
Universities are to set their own equal opportunities targets for employees but want more government cash for staffing. Employers and the Association of University Teachers met education secretary...
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Pin numbers
(Photograph) - Pin numbers: the Department of Health told the House of Lords this week that acupuncture, homeopathy and other alternative therapies will benefit more people if undergraduate courses...
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Anger at SA 'illegal' list
A group of British universities have reacted angrily to allegations that they have been operating illegally in South Africa. In a statement issued on January 10, the South African ministry of...
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Failed deals give UK bad name
British higher education is not only having problems with the South African authorities, it is also subject to criticism from the Quality Assurance Agency reveal, writes Phil Baty. The agency will...
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A self fulfilled in a modern world
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Goethe
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Vignettes of a Hellenic heyday
A Golden Age: Faces of Archaeology in Greece