Underperforming
In the article on the proposed new "performance" indicators (THES, February 12) a table compared the progression of students through an imaginary "University X" with average figures for similar...
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Meaning of success
The research into the careers and lives of Girton graduates suggests Cambridge failed to teach its alumni, in John Lennon's words, the "meaning of success" ("These women had so many breaks...", THES...
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Churlish Cambridge
It really is churlish of Cambridge University to insist on Gill Evans paying the Pounds 15,000 costs of the court case it could so easily have avoided and then even thinking of sending the bailiffs...
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Unrelated facts
In your reporting of the sale of the Turner collection, you have twice published the name of Simon Finch, described as a book dealer. Because of the coincidence of this name with my own I would like...
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Measuring up
Ideological objections to IQ testing are not a result of lack of thinking, as Stevan Harnad suggests ("Why I", THES, February 12). Quite the opposite. To reach his recommendation of "streamed"...
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Risky business
I was amused to read that entrepreneurs in the UK are "too easily satisfied" ("DTI knocks UK entrepreneurs for their 'poverty of ambition'", THES, February 5). Philip Treleaven writes from the...
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Locked in the ivory tower
Increased pressure to perform within universities is forcing academics to disengage from the public arena, argues Sheila Rowbotham I entered academia late in life to discover my colleagues struggling...
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A question of morality
Graham Zellick urges the government not to ask people about their religion in the next census In the next national census - a form of state prying that has been accepted for over a century and that...
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How to write a resume
A good resume is about self-promotion, but unlike the traditional CV, it is about raising questions rather than trying to answer them Occasionally you will see a job advertisement asking for a...
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A firm offer that's a stone's throw away
For universities searching for business opportunities, the next offer could be just around the corner, writes Alison Goddard To forge links with small firms, universities should target businesses in...
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Joining up for the genome
If Genome Valley is to ever become a reality, academia, industry and government must form a coherent strategy, say George Poste and Robin Fears A recent THES editorial (January 15) focused on the...
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A personable organiser
From university reseacher to electronics entrepreneur, David Potter talks to Alison Goddard about the making of the Psion king I never really intended to be an academic in the long run," says David...
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Outlook - good but changeable
In the last in a series of profiles of research councils, Julia Hinde reports that climate science must develop its spin-off potential As the 20th century draws to a close there is a growing...
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Developing a million-pound drug habitat
Snakebites, male contraception and malaria are all on the agenda at Strathclyde University's purpose-built drugs unit, reports Olga Wojtas Although dug researchers at Strathclyde University have...
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Colleges to lead by example
The best further education colleges could be commissioned to take over the management of failing colleges under a new interventionist standards drive. Launching the initiative, lifelong learning...