Archive swells
Elsevier Science is to enlarge its electronic archive of science and medical journals, which currently extends back to 1995. It will provide its full-text online customers with a permanent electronic...
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Material witness
Three undergraduates from Goldsmiths College who designed scientific educational websites as part of their education degree reached the final five in the National Museum of Science and Industry STEM...
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Melbourne gold
A data technology program developed by the University of Melbourne has been adopted by London's Imperial College to manage multiple campus archiving and record-keeping. The college's new Records...
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Ingenta, the global research gateway, has appointed Andrea Keyhani and Mark Kendall to develop library services. Ms Keyhani, vice-president for global library services, was heavily involved in the...
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Bridging cultural space big enough to test Nasa
The key to success for the GLA and London is partnership with educational institutions, says Trevor Phillips In public school novels, the boys of School House (or whatever) seldom stray off the...
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Half-Bak(er)ed plan better than no mention at all
It is a bit rich for the Conservative Party to bewail universities' lack of freedom. Until 1983 there was no legislation covering universities as a group. Polytechnics and colleges were controlled by...
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Present policies are narrowing aspirations
Elitism is on the agenda again this week, with independent school heads making menacing noises about government attempts to encourage preferential access to university for the poor. Admission to "a...
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Radicals return
While I do not think higher education is a seed-bed for radicalism, it is a place of awakening political awareness ("Radicals in retreat", Soapbox, THES, September 22). There are two reasons for a...
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Radicals return
The only thing more exasperating than a young person with strong political views is a young person without strong political views. Nick Crossley's report on the apparent disappearance of student...
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Pub glass-ceiling
The employer claim that hourly paid staff do not merit pro-rata contracts because their work differs from that of full-time colleagues, flies in the face of the evidence ("Part-timers cut pay bills...
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Lectures lose student appeal
Like Paul Sander and Keith Stevenson ("How to save students from boredom", THES, September 29), we have been monitoring first-year university students' preferences for different teaching methods....
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Welcome fee policy
I was delighted that you gave such prominence to Baroness Blackstone's reply to my question on differential fees at the fringe meeting organised by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals...
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Collegial enterprise
It all depends on what you mean by "entrepreneurial" (World view, THES, September 29). My work suggests a cycle of progression from a corporate to an entrepreneurial university. The current phase...
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In brief
I could not help smiling when I read the tortuous replies in Agony Aunt on how to remember students' names (Teaching, THES, September 29). I simply have a photograph taken of everyone, append their...
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In brief
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the addition of resources, made possibly by the lottery, for personnel and facilities, is responsible for our revolutionary improvement in Olympic...