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  1. Times past, times future, Times Higher

    The THES has had three editors in its 25-year history. The first, Brian MacArthur, recalls launching the paper with seven staff and not a marketing man in sight. His successor, Peter Scott, remembers...

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  2. Bare necessities in art and life

    While I have no wish to extend the saga of Southampton University's Naughty Pictures beyond its natural life, there are two or three points made by Ms Ni Bhrolchain in last week's THES ("Why No Nudes...

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  3. Hail the kings of accountancy age

    Charles Leonard argues that UK industry is struggling because it is frightened of taking risks. I was recently interviewed for a senior management post at a university on the south coast but was...

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  4. Net loss is a big gain

    Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...

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  5. Net loss is a big gain

    Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...

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  6. New Instant Science!

    Literary intellectuals are so ignorant about science, some scientists are claiming, that it is best to avoid their 'uninstructed' mediation and write directly to the public. Jon Turney is unconvinced...

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  7. Case of survival of the sceptical

    If you enjoy a challenge, Santa Clarke's budget decisions for higher education must have been good news. A 12 per cent cut in income over three years, cuts in equipment and student grants, less...

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  8. Pork that could give us the chop

    Genetically altered pigsare now being reared to provide organs for human transplants. But The THES has learnt that these potential donors could be the trigger for a devastating epidemic. David King...

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  10. Buddy, can you spare a fee?

    Fees to pay or not to pay? Stephen Romer sounds a note of warning on the US experience Influential parties in United Kingdom higher education are beginning to think the unthinkable: students will...

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  11. Search for Sixties' soul

    As mailings from the Rutgers University Alumni Association have been reminding me, it is 25 years since my graduation. Given my own reaction, I am sure that the arrival of "reunion announcements"...

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  12. Don's Diary

    TUESDAY. Watching the sun set from 25,000 feet over Moscow on my way to Irkutsk, central southern Siberia, I find myself trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to put to the back of my mind a recent...

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  13. World constituency for a politics of learning

    David Hunt, minister for public service and science, was glad-handing at the Web Days. He helped connect the first five secondary schools in the United Kingdom to the web and then formally acted as...

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  14. Un-Asian values

    Indians make an enormous contribution to intellectual life today, particularly in economics and in the sciences. It is to be hoped that the recent election will not affect this adversely. On a recent...

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