Make way for arts
If "'the creative industries' are universally regarded as the future of the British economy" ("Grants for the few", July 30), why does an article in the same issue on how other countries fund...
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Channel tunnel vision
Alison Wolf writes: ''France far excels the UK in its ability to plan and implement public-sector policies coherently, notably in health, transport and education'' (Opinion, July 30). Really? If she...
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Academics unite
Paul Mackney and Sally Hunt are right in thinking that elite academics need a union (Letters, July 30). The trouble is, it is not Natfhe, the Association of University Teachers or the offspring of...
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Laurie Taylor column
Maureen @ popp.ac.uk Dear Professor Lapping Thank you for ringing from Gascony. It was a bit difficult to hear what you were saying. There was a French person who kept interrupting to ask for more...
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Alan Ryan
While the QAA may have eliminated the worst 10 per cent of practice, it has got rid of the wonderful 10 per cent, too Many years ago, I spent a happy couple of years helping with a new edition of the...
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Leader: Global rivalry is good for students
Four years after the furore over her rejection by Oxford University and subsequent departure to Harvard, Laura Spence still arouses strong passions in British higher education. Whether she was the...
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Leader: Data have use-by date
No one should be surprised universities are finding it hard to deliver ministers' promises to provide detailed information to replace teaching quality assessments. The claims made for the new system...
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Call for proposals: Interlaboratory testing for EMG (Enhancement of Microbial Growth) and GCMS (Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry) Test for standardisation Deadline 30.09.2004
Brussels, 04 Aug 2004 Objectives: To perform a series of interlaboratory tests in order to fine tune the test procedures for Enhancement of Microbial Growth and Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry...
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Germany finances optical research network
Brussels, 04 Aug 2004 The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is providing 10.5 million euro to a new project providing a test bed for intelligent applications in business and science....
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Planning and flexibility key to encouraging return to work for women scientists, finds survey
Brussels, 04 Aug 2004 Not enough is being done to facilitate return to work in the science and technology sector following a career break, according to a UK survey. The survey was carried out by the...
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ESA dreams of human hibernation
Brussels, 04 Aug 2004 The idea itself is not new: astronauts entering a state of hibernation while en route to distant locations in order to help reduce the psychological demands of such long...
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International conference on the food factory of the future
Brussels, 04 Aug 2004 An international conference on the food factory of tomorrow, organised by SIK (Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology) and France's Laval Mayenne Technopole, will take...
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Lagoon Nebula (NGC 6523 or M8)
Paris, 04 Aug 2004 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a pair of half a light-year long interstellar 'twisters', eerie twisted funnel structures, in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (M8...
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AmerHis, first switchboard in space to be launched
Paris, 04 Aug 2004 On the night of 4 to 5 August 2004, Hispasat's Amazonas satellite will be launched from the International Baïkonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will carry the AmerHis 'switchboard...
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Today's news
Oxford row girl home to study medicine Laura Spence, the comprehensive school student whose rejection by Oxford triggered a political storm over university "elitism", is returning to Britain to study...