Intellectual property
Universities are beginning to realise the value of the intellectual property generated by their staff. Two developments indicate the change. First, they are no longer as willing to let staff keep...
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ILT proposals do not address the real concerns
One thing on which everyone in higher education agrees is that form filling is out of hand. Research grant applications, quality assessments, bids for a share of this or that pot of gold are taking...
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Don't prejudge
Your article "Culture of subterfuge" (THES, February 26) makes a number of serious allegations about research and other work at the North Staffordshire Hospital. The use of words such as "scandal"...
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Fuel for thought
One can think of many explanations for why Neanderthals disappeared. Chris Stringer's ("A squalid habitat on the path to extinction", THES, March 26) is very peculiar. The Gibraltar cave he is...
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Contract for good
The report "Teach-only contract threat" (THES, April 2) is misleading in suggesting that new contracts are being considered to try to influence the research assessment exercise. This issue is largely...
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Planning by postcode
In response to the article "Entry by postcode could fall foul of law" (THES, March 26), the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service would like to draw attention to the following points. Neither...
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Two sides of the masons' mark
I was surprised to see a reference to the University of Kent in your article "Masons seek formal partners in academy" (THES, March 26). About five years ago Canonbury Academy (as the Canonbury...
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Two sides of the masons' mark
Your article "Masons seek formal partners in academy" requires several clarifications. The Canonbury Masonic Research Centre is not an organisation sponsored or controlled by the freemasons. It is an...
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Art talks
(Photograph) - John Gibbons, head of sculpture at Winchester School of Art, has become the first professor from the studio arts to give an inaugural lecture at the University of Southamopton. The...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THESI. Rick Audas and Peter Dolton argued that tuition fees and loss of grants could limit poorer students' choice of employment. Counselling. TONY WATTS. Director. National...
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Jobs and local study
The arguments of Rick Audas and Peter Dalton that students who can afford to study away from home enjoy the best job prospects ("Students who leave home 'get best jobs'", THES, April 2) need to take...
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A science of life
Why does The THES wish to deny sociology a specialist vocabulary when all academic disciplines and most vocations make use of technical terms and phrases ("Is sociology lost or is it just...
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A science of life
Gregor McLennan's definition of the task of the human sciences as being to develop "substantive insights and ideological bearings" is partial, inadequate and too easily an excuse for casual anecdote...
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'I was self-conscious, as the only one married with children'
Bright young things need only apply Vanessa Walker, 42, contracts manager, Mid-Kent Healthcare Trust Vanessa Walker graduated from Goldsmiths College, London, with a degree in psychology and...
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Dressed to sell body and soul
A Cosmopolitan-reading Shakespeare and economists attired a la Reservoir Dogs were two of the strange sights seen recently at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Students from different departments...