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John Davies focuses on radio and television programmes likely to be of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Archaeology is doing well: last week both BBC2 and Channel 4...
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Mission: conserve highfliers
Time is running out for rare Himalayan butterflies, says David Spencer Smith The world's greatest concentration of high mountains lies within the Karakoram range in western Himalaya. It is an arid...
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New College, new milestone
Hermione Lee has notched up a double first for women at Oxford. Elaine Williams reports on the Virginia Woolf biographer's move In her biography of the novelist Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee admits...
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PM scraps black support scheme
On the night he won a second term of office, Australian prime minister John Howard promised he would pursue the cause of reconciliation with the nation's indigenous people as a major priority. Almost...
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Don't sack the gardener
Over-emphasis on plant chemistry is short-sighted and is killing botanical gardens, says Ghillean Prance. Over the past ten years, I have received a steady flow of requests asking me to intervene as...
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How to attract the funders in the new year
We hope you enjoyed 1998, because 1999 may well be eerily similar. First, as the bills for Christmas come home to roost, money. 1998 was a banner year for anyone lucky and clever enough to be in a...
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Scrutinise those overseas links
Problems in management of UK universities and colleges' overseas partnerships seem to be becoming a running sore in British higher education, the latest being the just-published National Audit Office...
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Figure it out
One can have such fun with figures. You reported on the proportions of UK undergraduates from various sources who registered at Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics ("Oxford raises...
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Privatising knowledge
While it is always good news to see new funding provided for research, there is still something not quite right with the government's emphasis on collaboration with business and "the ability to turn...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Andrew Oswald suggested that governments should measure people's happiness rather than the country's gross domestic product Andrew Oswald proposes an index of the "gross...
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It doesn't add up
David Singmaster calls for an inquiry into Keele University's sale of a collection of old maths books From 1968 until recently, Keele University housed England's leading collection of old mathematics...
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Pass the temazepam, please
Maverick of the Year Peter Knight mulls over why academics have become so acquiescent An unexpected end to 1998. I have won a ballot for the distinguished title of Maverick of the Year. The title is...
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'Old boys' hold on to research funding
United Kingdom research councils spent less than 5 per cent of their higher education budgets in former polytechnics and colleges of higher education last year. The rest went to old universities....
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Scientists greet Byers
Barely a week after launching his much-hyped Competitiveness white paper, Peter Mandelson, the trade and industry secretary, has gone, replaced by ex-academic Stephen Byers. Mr Byers's arrival at the...
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Physicist joins 007 for latest mission
A lecturer at one of the country's leading universities has been recruited to advise the secret service, The THES can reveal. The Imperial College physicist is passing detailed weapons information to...