Green professor leads party to the polls
ALEXANDER Van der Bellen faces the new semester with some apprehension. The 54-year-old professor in political economy has his lecture notes prepared, the students are motivated and exam marking is...
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Outrage at 'spies in seminar' ploy
CASPAR Einem, Austria's education minister, wants to send spies into universities to root out poor teaching and absentee professors who do not carry out their teaching requirements. The secret...
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Why the mature are cheesed off
THE FALL in applications to university by mature students, particularly older mature students, should set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall. These figures are the first real evidence of the effect of...
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On deciding who to clone
In the late 1970s scientists and engineers decided to restrict genetic engineering until there had been a debate about the prospective uses and abuses of the, then, new technology. We are in a...
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Biologists must wake up to warfare
Biological weapons are a cheap and easy way to cause mass deaths, but British scientists are supremely indifferent says Wendy Barnaby THE stand-off in Iraq between Saddam Hussein and the United...
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Power and glory games
Can the North reforms be implemented without destroying Oxford's fundamental ethos, asks Vernon Bogdanor OXFORD is an ancient university and yet it operates on strikingly modern principles. Its...
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With reference to references, let's forget all about them
I FELT painfully sympathetic when I read Valentine Cunningham's account of the ceaseless round of reference writing (THES, January 30). Not because I have written many but because I have asked for so...
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Bolton braced
YOU imply that Bolton Institute's application to be able to use a university title has been rejected (THES, February 6). This is not the case. The Quality Assurance Agency has submitted advice to the...
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Cambridge democracy
IF THE board of scrutiny at Cambridge University is "an important legacy" of the Wass report (THES, January 30) or, in Anthony Edwards's stronger phrase, which you quote, "the only important proposal...
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Cloning rights
IN "Devaluing the human factor" (THES, February 6), the director-general of Unesco, Federico Mayor, supports a ban on human cloning and rejects defences of that practice that invoke a "right to...
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Thoughtless theorising
IS Catherine Belsey sending herself up? Her article (THES, January 30) on literary theory contains the following: "Young lecturers take it for granted" and "It must gall senior academics to be...
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Let's have a grant lottery
I WAS interested to read Les Allen's proposals (THES, February 6) for awarding research grants on the lottery principle. This would have the advantage both of dealing with the known biases of the...
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Missing links?
BY PLACING Simon Critchley's "Dare to think" next to your celebration of Michael Craig-Martin (THES, February 6), you ironically illustrate why "Young British Art" serves Charles Saatchi so neatly....
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Purveyors of opium for the universities
SUSSED. As Chris Grey wryly observes in his commentary on the use of "new methods" in teaching students ("Is staff development drivel?" THES, February 6), the advocates of the methods are not neutral...
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Unions of unions
FORMER members and officers of the Association of University and College Lecturers have far more common cause with the Association of University Teachers than was ever likely with Natfhe. Paul...