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  1. ILT will live on 1

    Reports of the demise of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education are greatly exaggerated ("Teaching academy could doom ILT", THES , January 31). The ILTHE, formerly the ILT, in...

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  2. ILT will live on 2

    The ILTHE is not "doomed" by the white paper proposals for a new academy. It should be a major contributor to its success. In a very short time, the institute has established itself as a professional...

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  3. ILT will live on 3

    If education secretary Charles Clarke and vice-chancellors are serious about enhancing learning and teaching, they need to reform restrictive personnel policies regarding academic-related staff....

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  4. Engineering a drama 1

    Sa'ad Medhat complains that four-year accredited MEng is failing to attract students ("A new beginning for a strained relationship", THES , January 24). But why complain when the Engineering Council...

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  5. Engineering a drama 2

    Sa'ad Medhat is out of touch about what the engineering industry wants and what universities provide. Why has industry been snapping up engineering graduates? Why have the salaries of graduating...

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  6. PhD confusion

    Susan Bassnett understates the degree of arbitrary divergence in PhD procedures (Soapbox, THES , January 10). She criticises differences in interpretation of criteria for referrals. Far more...

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  7. Them v-cs and us

    Sir Richard Sykes, rector of Imperial College London, receives an index-linked pension of £700,000 from GlaxoSmithKline and £46,000 from his part-time job as a non-executive director of Rio Tinto,...

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  8. Roads to ruin

    If Tony Blair is determined to go down the route of dedicated taxes and contributions, why not start with war? Let war be funded by a specific tax paid by those who choose to be in the war business....

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  9. Laurie Taylor column

    The white paper on higher education envisages an even greater role for human resources, THES January 31. Thank you all for turning up so late on a Friday for this special workshop on teambuilding...

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  10. Leader: Growing pay gap makes justifiable case hard to sell

    White papers excepted, nothing excites such interest among readers of The THES as our annual survey of vice-chancellors' pay. In any walk of life, employees are intrigued to know what the boss earns...

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  11. Leader: European science fair is welcome innovation

    The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's glossiest showcase for science and innovation. It is therefore little wonder that European scientists and...

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  13. Second-hand satellites may gain new voice

    Paris, 05 Feb 2003 ESA engineers are proposing a technique to enable a digital satellite radio service for European drivers - without the need to launch a single new satellite into orbit. Commercial...

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  14. Space Shuttle Columbia - Information Note No. 2

    Paris, 05 Feb 2003 Failure investigation technical update Ron Dittemore, Shuttle Programme Manager, NASA/JSC, relating to the incident on 1 February, reconstructed the final minutes of Shuttle...

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  15. SIG proposal to formulate a future strategy for COST

    Brussels, 05 Feb 2003 Full text of Document 207/03 The discussion paper "A strategy for COST 2003" dated 26 January 2003 will be presented as a room paper at the 152nd CSO meeting. It is quite clear...

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