More RAE kickabout
I had hoped for a more considered reply on the RAE transfer market than that of my union general secretary, David Triesman (THES, August 7). He is right that the excesses should be curbed; but "...
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More RAE kickabout
I am a little bemused by the correspondence about the "RAE transfer market". Naively (or cynically), I assumed the RAE was intended to create a transfer market. It started life as a "research...
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Unsighted citations
John Rawlinson of the Royal Society says Alan Hirsch was not cited in ISI's Science Citation Index "because he publishes in biochemical journals and ISI doesn't recognise those" ("Citation circus...
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End Oxbridge MAs scam
I was pleased to see your story "Oxbridge MAs in danger" (THES, August 7). As someone who spent ten years in Cambridge, and who has one of these "degrees", I have long believed the system to be a...
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Labour's ghetto
Your opinion column (THES, July 31) stated that new Labour's Helen Liddell is "opposing the tide of Scottish Nationalism. In this higher education is likely to prove a useful ally. The universities...
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Soundbites not specialists speak most loudly
Media coverage of events in countries with unsavoury political regimes obscures the whole truth, argues Bill Watson Recent political events in Asia have been followed with keen attention by academic...
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Handling the genetic hot potatoes
Are genetically modified foods safe? Derek Burke, a former regulator, discusses the evidence and the risks Genetically modified foods have been entering British supermarkets over the past year. The...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday High days and holy days. For Degree Congregations Day One I choose jacket with firm top button so as not to be strangled by hood of academic dress (presumably designed with the male shirt in...
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Sorbonne sores are soothed
This has been a year of celebrations. The French have taken to the beaches with happy memories of their World Cup soccer triumph. The educational value of the tournament is something to think about....
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World beckons the narrow horizoned
Student friends talk wistfully about travelling around the world once their exams have finished, and a few of them even do it. I always ask why, plaintively, as I scrub them out of my social life for...
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Chairs
University of Manchester David Langslow, lecturer in Latin philology and linguistics at University of Oxford, chair of classics; Elaine Graham, senior lecturer-elect, Samuel Ferguson chair of social...
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Honorary degrees
University of Ulster DLitt: Keith Kyle, professor and reporter on the BBC's Panorama programme; Catherine McGuinness, Dublin High Court judge, chair of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, member...
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Close encounter
(Photograph) - Cambridge University's Amateur Dramatic Club publicise their performance of Ticklebang at the Edinburgh Festival. The comedy, by Dillon Ritson, the winner of the 1997 Guardian...
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Scientist ousted over altered food claim
A scientist who warned that his unpublished research raised the possibility that genetically modified food might damage human health was suspended this week by the Rowett Research Institute in...
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HEFCE consults on health research
The problem of assessing the quality of broad areas of health-related research could be solved by setting up sub-panels beneath the main assessment panels, writes Alison Goddard. The Higher Education...