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ECONOMICS- The Problems of Disadvantaged YouthEdited by Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of Chicago Press, £76.00. ISBN 9780226309453Taking...
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Odds and quads
Along with ketchup containers and an apple-shaped promotional radio, this Rhoda Handbag - designed by Sarah Bayley - forms part of the collection at the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP).
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Still time to influence the impact agenda 1
The research impact debate has already run a lively course. Impact is an integral part of the proposed research excellence framework - a fact that has caused concern in some quarters of the academic...
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Still time to influence the impact agenda 2
"Impact statements are intended ultimately to benefit society," argues Dave Delpy, "not interfere with funding" ("They're not unreasonable", 26 November). However, he seems to be unaware of the basic...
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Still time to influence the impact agenda 3
In defending impact statements, Dave Delpy, RCUK's "champion for economic impact", neatly destroys his own argument. If he believes that as a non-expert he "could write a statement indicating...
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Still time to influence the impact agenda 4
Dave Delpy claims that the petition I posted on the Number 10 website contains a "significant misrepresentation" when it refers to the policy of both the research councils and the research excellence...
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Still time to influence the impact agenda 5
I really enjoyed Dave Delpy's piece, in which he sends up RCUK's policy on impact statements by pretending to be a hopelessly ignorant quangocrat with no understanding of the nature and role of pure...
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Terms of concealment 1
Your article on philosophy cutbacks in UK universities calls for a wider debate ("Being philosophical may be limited to 'leisured' classes", 26 November). Terms such as "vocational" and "academic"...
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Terms of concealment 2
Your piece tells only half the story. The study of philosophy, as part of the philosophy and ethics component of A level religious studies, is thriving nationally, with large, documented and well-...
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Next chapter or nothing
As an information professional, I'd like to add to the responses to Kevin Sharpe's article on the modern library ("Quiet, please", 5 November). He raises some good points about the lack of a...
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Ivy view is incomplete
In "The American lesson: How to be top" (26 November), Terence Kealey suggests that UK universities should emulate the American Ivy League by detaching themselves from state support, as if the...
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Pauline conversion
So Peter Williams, former chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, told a World Innovation Summit for Education in Qatar that "Quality systems 'stifle' innovation" (26 November)? Sounds like...
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Stanley Ellis, 1926-2009
A dialectologist and pioneering forensic linguist - who made a notable intervention in the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry - has died.Stanley Ellis was born in Bradford on 18 February 1926, studied at...
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Principles of Molecular Photochemistry: An Introduction/Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic Molecules
Timely revision of a classic work
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Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
This is the third edition of a well-established textbook that presents the chemistry of the environment: the natural, unpolluted environment and the damaged environment, including what can be done to...