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  1. Coshep asks for funds to exploit research

    The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals this week urged the Scottish Parliament to boost "third-leg" funding to commercialise academic research. In a briefing for the new parliament's...

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  2. Students scrape by on Pounds 300 per week

    Students at Newcastle University survive on as little as Pounds 20 per week, while those at London's Imperial College eke out a living from anything up to Pounds 300 per week, according to the Virgin...

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  3. Bureaucracy has killed the spirit of academics

    In the fourth of our summer series on education at the century's end, David Triesman exploers the causes if dissaffection among staff. Academic colleagues from abroad generally ask the same question...

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  4. Can't this pay offer be improved?

    The pay dispute in higher education may look like a wrangle between a determined beggar and a passer-by with no money. But in this case the chosen victim cannot just walk away. Instead, autumn is...

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  5. A lack of maturity

    Despite the AUT action (above), this year has seen few "clearing chaos" tales. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has become adept at coping with tens of thousands of applicants who...

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  6. Star scholars shine in all skies

    So compelling was the picture painted by Professor Blackburn et al about opportunities in North America for har-assed United Kingdom academics (THES, July 30) that I thought some ex-ex-pat should...

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  7. Pay rise put in motion

    As The THES rightly notes (August 20), Natfhe is calling for a major inquiry into further education pay and conditions at this year's Trades Union Congress conference. However, I am sure that THES...

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  8. Meningitis fear

    While I understand why students are concerned about meningitis and want all the protection available, I do not think it is in anyone's interests to believe they are protected when they may not be....

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  9. Case of PHD blues

    According to BBC Radio 4's Today programme (August 1 9), PHD ý or Post Holiday Depression ý is at long last a recognised psychiatric condition. As I have an official-looking piece...

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  10. Vision misinterpreted

    The prediction by Eric Atwell in The Language Machine is unduly alarmist (THES, July 23). The technology required for a machine to translate the spoken word (ie interpret) involves a combination of...

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  12. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, proves it takes one to know one - the author served as a naval intelligence officer during the last war: "...

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