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Your diary (THES, January 15) suggests that I might have a view about a candidate in our executive election. As returning officer, I do not. In my former post in Natfhe, I took no part in...
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Higher Education Role Analysis is claimed to be "hated by the AUT, disliked by Natfhe, but supported by other unions" ("Is Bett about to pay dividends?", THES, January 22). This is inaccurate. MSF is...
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Questions of structural integrity
The institutional setting of architectural education is barely hinted at in Sir Colin Stansfield Smith's draft report, nor in Kam Patel's otherwise useful report ("Architects fear course renovation...
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Questions of structural integrity
You quote a Higher Education Funding Council for England official as saying that "a change from a five-year to a three-year undergraduate programme plus a two-year postgraduate programme would not...
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Questions of structural integrity
The statement from HEFCE illustrates the protectionism that has so dominated architectural education in the past two decades; even the RIBA response was immediately protectionist. It may be necessary...
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Questions of structural integrity
What is needed is staff who can produce more and better research and heads of schools of architecture who value research and have sufficient knowledge of it to be able to manage their resources....
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Agony aunt
Q Some of my engineering students have a rather elementary grasp of maths. What is the best way of helping them? A Janet Duffin Maths lecturer and head of numeracy project Hull University Much of the...
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Spare good governors
Members of college governing bodies are rightly exhorted to recognise boundaries between governance and management and not to interfere in tasks allocated to the college principal. It is hard, in a...
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US A-bombs crime
In Sir Timothy Garden's review of Hiroshima's Shadow ("Atomic truths exploded", THES, January 8), no reference was made to the number of casualties of the A-bomb dropped in Nagasaki. An estimated 40,...
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A call for evidence
A principle of car mechanics is, when the vehicle is not running perfectly, start by adjusting the engine rather than by dismantling the car. This principle should apply equally to policy-making. The...
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Wishes, perchance to dream
Neurological tests provide evidence that Freud's theory of dreams may have been right, says Mark Solms It is not very fashionable now to believe in Freudian theories about how the mind works....
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Why I...believe we still need women-only colleges
Jane Mulkerrans edits the Cambridge student magazine Varsity and is a second-year student in social and political sciences at New Hall, one of Cambridge's three single-sex colleges Women's colleges...
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Chisel - point 3D precision
Michelangelo's sculptures are being scanned to make a near perfect archive, Paul Bompard reports A team of scientists from Stanford University began work on Tuesday in Florence on an ambitious laser-...
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Pounds 300m saving with online patents
The world's first internet-based patent auction market was launched this week to bring together the owners of patents - including universities - and companies looking to commercialise research. Nir...
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Exe certificate
The University of Exeter has launched a range of courses that can be studied over the internet as well as by more traditional means. Designed for people who cannot easily travel, the courses can...