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The Trini Trinity is found on de line
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Tall storyteller brought down to size
Storyteller
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Laurie Taylor Column
BOOK OF THE YEAR Academics select the books that have most influenced their thinking during the past 12 months. Mike Redbreast (short-term contract lecturer in biology at the University of Uttoxeter...
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Leader: Guidelines must cover research practices too
The Wellcome Trust is spending about £3 billion on research in its current five-year plan, most of it through universities. So its wish for the researchers it funds to adopt national criteria for...
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Leader: Enthusiasm for future can help Europe flourish
On the eve of the Nobel prizes' 100th birthday, a conference convened by Europaeum, a club of seven universities in Oxford, Leiden, Bonn, Bologna, Geneva, Paris and Prague, met at Humboldt University...
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Letter: In response
I hope it will assist the academic figures whose integrity and intellectual freedom have been under attack ("If no rules have been broken, perhaps the rulebook requires some attention", THES ,...
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Letter: Who is the winner? 1
The government wants cutting-edge research so that the United Kingdom stays in the top rank. It promotes the research assessment exercise and qua-lity gets better. Then the higher education minister...
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Letter: Who is the winner? 2
You say that universities asked to concentrate on teaching, as opposed to research, will be "demoralised and angry losers" (Opinion, THES , November 23). Why so? I think we could gain more...
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Letter: The sky's no limit
Contrary to your editorial "Free researchers from hand that feeds them" (Opinion, THES , November 23), the Economic and Social Research Council invests substantially in blue-skies research in funded...
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Letter: A wider look at participation 1
An anonymous student support officer argues in "How to ignite bright sparks" ( THES , November 30) that there may be dangerous, if unintended, consequences of targeting pupils at an early age deemed...
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Letter: A wider look at participation 2
It may seem like a simple case of numbers, but there is a danger that higher education minister Margaret Hodge's proposal to lift the cap on university student numbers will jeopardise the very...
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Letter: A wider look at participation 3
As a governor of further education colleges and a university, I have spent much time debating widening participation and student-retention strategies. But it was not until my goddaughter went to...
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Letter: Only connect 1
Jon Bryan (Letters, THES , November 30) tells us that the moment when a student suddenly "gets it" is something that just "happens". It is wrong, he says, "to seek to do this by design and as a...