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Academics fill ranks of people's peers Edinburgh University vice-chancellor Sir Stewart Sutherland and former government chief scientist Sir Robert May are among the first 15 “people’s” peers. Also...
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Latest international news
Austrian tenure talks falter Talks between the Austrian government and university teachers over plans to restrict academic tenure have broken down. The government believes new employment conditions,...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Employment in manufacturing in the United Kingdom will fall by 700,000 over the next 10 years, according to a Warwick University study commissioned by the government. BMW yesterday...
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Higher education appointments
University of Strathclyde Ian Smith will succeed Douglas Weir as dean of the faculty of education. Leslie Sheldon , director of the English language teaching division at the University of Strathclyde...
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Higher education awards
University of Strathclyde Neil McGarvey , politics division, has been awarded the United Kingdom Public Administration Consortium Essay Competition - the prize, an expenses paid visit to Athens to...
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Laurie Taylor
From : dave.boswell@uttoxeter. ac.uk To : g.lapping@poppleton.ac.uk Hi, Gordon. Remember me? Dave Boswell. Class of '76. I did your third-year option on Roland Barthes. Long, red, straggly beard (...
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Letter: Basic economics
I had to laugh in disbelief at Roger Brown's article misleading entitled "We must get back to basics" (Soapbox, THES , April 13). It was about deciding on a quality assurance framework rather than "...
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Letter: Ancestral confusion
Simon Ditchfield's analysis of recruitment trends in history was interesting ("It pays to help the public to meet the ancestors", THES , April 20), but he is wrong about the history pedigree of the...
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Letter: Missing targets (1)
I was pleased to read in Lionel Kochan's review of The Journal of Holocaust Education ("Holocaust engulfs the Jews' story", THES , April 20), an acknowledgement of the critical engagement this...
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Letter: Missing targets (2)
Kathy Chater seems to want the Family and Community History to be a journal providing a context for her and her pupils' genealogical interests in individual ancestors ("Abstracted ancestors", Books,...
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Letter: Private grillings (1)
There is no perfect method of examining a PhD thesis and the thesis's author and I appreciate that the Swedish system advocated by David Stephens has many merits (Why I..., THES , April 20). His use...
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Letter: Private grillings (2)
It was reported that "there are no systematic training schemes for supervisors outside a handful of isolated and unconnected skills workshops" ("New PhD to attract overseas students", THES , April 13...
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Letter: 'Not really dead'
The 19th century could be a time of horror to an informed person ("Plight of the living dead", THES, April 20). Hans Christian Andersen, for example, lived in constant fear of airborne diseases that...
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Letter: Heated facts
Mike Hulme is right to stress that responsibility for implementing the Kyoto protocol falls to each and every one of us (Letters, THES , April 20). Governments and their policies, however, shape the...
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Letter: Imperial clarity (1)
Imperial College has no intention of charging students fees in addition to those levied by government ("Doctor quits Imperial over fees", THES , April 20). The charging of top-up fees is illegal. We...