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An article by Alison Goddard (THES, December 11) covers our interim report on interdisciplinarity and the research assessment exercise. Unfortunately, the article misunderstands our research and...
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Firm footing for earth
Your coverage of the proposed closure of the department of earth sciences at the University of Sheffield (THES, December 4) fails to mention that the aim of restructuring is to position students and...
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Bright ideas
Celia Hampton's point that an academic paper can be used to found a patent application is an important one (THES, October 23). It means that an academic can establish his and/or his institution's...
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Grim and bear it
Students will be the losers with the redistribution of Oxbridge college fees, says Robert Stevens. Last week the Department for Education and Employment, in the best spirit of Christmas, issued its...
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Why I... think British museums should hand back their loot
Reader in contemporary cultural studies, University of Central Lancashire As a Glaswegian and an American studies lecturer, I was delighted at the recent decision by Glasgow City Museums to return a...
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World watch
Malan Marnersdottir has become the first woman rector of the University of the Faroe Islands. The University of the Faroe Islands has faculties in Faroese language and literature, history, society,...
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World watch
Israel's university students have ended their 44-day nationwide strike and returned to classes last week, a week before the semester was due to be cancelled. Student representatives, who failed to...
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Cyprus invests in education
Cyprus is set to become a centre of learning, says Kate Hughes, but private colleges are feeling left out Cyprus is in the grip of a drought. Unless there is significant rainfall, existing supplies...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Peter Younie dismissed the refusal of rebel students at Oxford to pay their Pounds 1,000 tuition fees as an 'irrelevant and old-fashioned protest' Matthew Pledger Brunel...
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Next week
NEWS Students' mental health; Peter Atkins glories in a secular commercialised Christmas. FEATURES Spiritual godfather of the Millennium Dome, an interview with Christopher Frayling, overseer of the...
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Stone me
(Photograph) - Groundsman Simon Higgins mows around Figure in a Landscape, 1960, by Barbara Hepworth, part of the new sculpture walk at Exeter University. Photograph by TIM CUFF
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Tight spot
(Photograph) - Tight spot: Serbian students scuffle with police during a protest in Belgrade last week. They were protesting against a law tightening political control of universities.
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Dirty play gets the prize
A board game satirising university life is set to be a big hit with German academics this Christmas. The object of the Campus board game is to climb to the top of the greasy pole of academia - the...
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Survey details Scots in study across UK
The first official survey of higher and further education participation by postcode has been completed in Scotland. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council survey shows the proportion of Scots...
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Nesta to help in the flowering of fellows
An outline of how the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts will operate was unveiled this week. Plans include fellowships to help exceptional individuals. Comments on the proposals...