Sykes call to focus science
Scientific research funding should be concentrated in a small number of university centres of excellence while the rest train technicians, Sir Richard Sykes told the British Association's Festival of...
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New interest in old powers
As the colonial past recedes, Asia is taking a fresh look at what Europe has to offer, writes Wang Gungwu. A shift in the way Asians study Europe has changed for the first time in a century....
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Mass rallies
Canberra Thousands of students have joined mass rallies on the streets of Australia's regional capitals to protest about the violence in East Timor. They are calling for UN troops to enter East Timor...
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How netting students adds up
Websites are expensive to set up, so colleges are turning to commercial firms to build bespoke portals. Jon Marcus reports. Many United States universities are beginning this academic year with a...
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North-South divide over Diamond site
A decision on the future of the Pounds 175 million national X-ray source, Diamond, is expected in the next two weeks. The Department of Trade and Industry is to rule on whether the new synchrotron...
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Mahathir Mohamad
Kuala Lumpur Prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has welcomed the upgrading of Institute Technology Mara in Shah Alam to university status. Renamed University Technology Mara, it will continue to offer...
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On the origin of legend
Kam Patel in his interview with Steve Jones ("Aping Darwin", THES, September 10) repeats the legend that Karl Marx not only admired Darwin, but even wanted to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin, who...
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Foreign science links
It is the Royal Society as the UK Academy of Science rather than the British Council (Opinion, THES, September 3) that promotes links with science academies overseas. The society has been involved in...
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Course is called to account
Congratulations on your expose of the affairs of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (Whistleblowers, THES, September 3). My further inquiries make depressing reading. ACCA boasts some...
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Visitor does work
A good deal of alarmist piffle is being uttered lately about the impact of the Human Rights Act on the institution of the visitor in universities and colleges, much of it emanating from practising...
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Visitor does work
The Oxbridge visitor system can work very well indeed (Letters, THES, September 10). I asked my Cambridge college to provide a form of Grace acceptable to non-Christians. This caused some difficulty...
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Visitor does work
Peter Butler (Letters, THES, September 10) could not have appealed to Cambridge's visitor since the university does not have one. The office is not provided for in our constitutional arrangements....
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Names in lights
As one of the "media dons" profiled in previous THES articles, I read with great interest Andrew Oswald's article about university publicity ("Bushels: avoid, lights: turn up", THES, September 3)....
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Expansion of learning
A key word was omitted in the story "Dons warn over expansion" (THES, September 10). and distorted our message. We argue against a further expansion of initial HE, not of HE generally. The issue is...
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Sectarian schools
Tom Devine suggests that what he calls "sniping" about Catholic schools in Scotland is an element of residual animosity to Catholics ("Spot the Catholic", THES, September 10). As a secular Scot, my...