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The government's message that teaching is an appropriate raison d'etre for the university title depends crucially on the removal of the research degree-awarding powers requirement ("Legal fear over...
The government's message that teaching is an appropriate raison d'etre for the university title depends crucially on the removal of the research degree-awarding powers requirement ("Legal fear over...
UUK and others, most notably the Association of University Teachers, continue to use the phrase "teaching only" to describe institutions set to benefit from the government's enlightened policy on the...
Perhaps Colin Blakemore should take on board the lesson to be gleaned from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy - that those who expect honours don't deserve them ("Prince stands accused in honours...
When an academic with such a distinguished career as Colin Blakemore complains that he ought to have been given a knighthood, it serves only to deepen the suspicions of many who are sceptical of the...
Andrew Oswald appears to think that his proposal to conduct controlled experiments on working life and happiness is a novel one ("Give all your staff a real bonus - a No-Work Wednesday", THES ,...
Universities are dedicated to the "last-carriage principle", which states that in any railway accident the last carriage comes off worst, irrespective of the length of the train ("Luton makes it...
Andy Alaszewski is wrong to suggest that the connection between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism is one of "a low probability with a high consequence" ("When fear becomes another...
Clearly THES journalists, like TV schedulers, have to find little amusements to celebrate the season. But with Ofcom revving up for business and the battle over the BBC's charter in full swing, it...
What are the time-management secrets of those academics who apparently manage to do their teaching, research, consultancy and administration and still find hours to ponder the rival demerits of Big...
The report "Influential teaching technique rubbished" ( THES , November 28) did serious injustice to two research reports to be published this month by the Learning and Skills Research Centre. Less...
David Trim (Letters, THES , December 12) suggests that the "terrible consequences" of religious belief decried by Richard Dawkins (Books, THES , November 28) are matched by similar "terrible...
Trevor Stone maintains that there are problems with science only when its data are misused by "others" (Letters, THES , December 19/26). What of the German university scientists who supported Nazi...
The government's message that teaching is an appropriate raison d'etre for the university title depends crucially on the removal of the research degree-awarding powers requirement ("Legal fear over...
UUK and others, most notably the Association of University Teachers, continue to use the phrase "teaching only" to describe institutions set to benefit from the government's enlightened policy on the...
Perhaps Colin Blakemore should take on board the lesson to be gleaned from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy - that those who expect honours don't deserve them ("Prince stands accused in honours...