Research funds not for industry
The outcomes from the research assessment exercise are used by the funding councils to allocate a limited amount of money in a selective way. Over the years there has been a growing lobby that wants...
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Top tips for study skills
Very little account has been taken of the widespread change to semesterisation in higher education. When I was a mature first-year undergraduate, I attended a study-skills seminar early in my course...
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Failure? I think we'll pass
The tips on helping students who fail exams (Teaching, THES, July 9) coincided nicely with the ritual posting of pass lists, a widespread denial mechanism against the reality of failure. The advice...
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No Rum cover-up
John Raven's evidence that several of the rare plants discovered by John Heslop Harrison on Rum had been deliberately planted was not hushed up ("Trowels and tribulations", THES, July 9 ). It was...
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No Rum cover-up
I read with sadness about John Heslop Harrison. I was living on Rum in the early 1940s when he visited the island. Discovering my interest in natural history, although I was only five or so, he...
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Councils' responsibilities
It is not the case that the higher education funding councils "have a statutory responsibility to safeguard standards in higher education" ("Councils near deal", THES, July 23). The funding councils...
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LJMU defends itself
I was appalled by your attack on Liverpool John Moores University and its vice-chancellor ("Top dogs pass on pain of job cuts", THES, July 23), particularly as it appeared during our degree ceremony...
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Beach bummer
While the sun may shine, Australian academics are now also expected to be full-time entrepreneurs drawing in funding to underwrite research and salaries from private industry. There is little time...
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Getting close to nature
It is correct to highlight the advances in self-organisation in organic molecular science, so-called supramolecular science (Cutting edge, THES, July 16). But even greater advances will have to be...
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Glad to be grey
Raymond Tallis's article on the positive aspects of ageing is to be applauded ("Old faces, new lives", THES, July 9). Practically all models of ageing take it for granted that old age is a process of...
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Men and childcare
A core problem of most contributions to the topic of women academics and motherhood (Letters, THES, June 4, 11, 18, July 2) seems to be a structural one, namely the underlying idea that men might "...
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Pay rate survey
The story on the pay study conducted for the Bett committee by Hay Management Consultants quoted the Association of University Teachers' view that the study was based on 115 jobs (THES, July 9). In...
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It's a hard job in tough times at a troubled TVU
Troubled Thames Valley University's new vice-chancellor will take over in interesting times. The immediate challenge is to rationalise the place in accordance with the plan agreed with the funding...
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Dearing holds the answer to fees payment crisis
As news gets around that students owe universities millions of pounds, payment of tuition fees could become as voluntary as payment of the poll tax by students in the 1980s unless universities get...
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Signs point to the learning corporation
The virtual university, far from building a much more loosely defined environment for exchanging knowledge, demands a different type of concrete organisation, says John Goddard. The "virtual...