Glasnost factor in peer reviews
IT SEEMS impossible not to endorse the various flaws in peer review of applications for research grants and academic promotions. We are admonished to go for peak-quality performance, yet power and...
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Glasnost factor in peer reviews
Mantz Yorke calls for the marriage of teaching and research by establishing a separate unit of assessment in the research assessment exercise devoted to higher education (Opinion, THES, January 16)....
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Appointments
Church of Scotland. Alan Main, professor of practical theology at Christ's College in Aberdeen and former university chaplain, has been appointed moderator of the General Assembly from 1998....
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Parodies of life and art
IN HIS review of Ernest May and Philip Zelikow's The Kennedy Tapes (THES, January 16), Alex Danchev is wrong to suggest that Curtis E. LeMay was the model for General Jack D. Ripper (in Dr...
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True tales of Cyprus
THE admirable rise of higher education in the illegally-occupied Turkish zone of northern Cyprus (THES, January 9) may have more to do with the concerted campaign by certain sectors of the Turkish...
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Warwick: a correction
Diana Warwick did not sit at the hearing of the case of Hashmukhary Bhatt at the employment appeals tribunal ("Warwick embroiled in contracts rumpus", THES, January 16). Unfortunately, due to an...
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Yiddish's strengths
"An Oksforder's Blues" referred to the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (THES, January 16) yet we were surprised that no one contacted us for information. Jim Reed and Dov-Ber Kerler are both...
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The new face of recession
NO FINANCE minister can ever talk publicly of "the next recession". To do so is, at best, to admit that the government's policies cannot prevent it and, at worst, to invite the opposition to accuse...
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Tough reforms for Germany
GERMAN students went on strike in many cities last autumn. Unlike student strikers of more "revolutionary" times, they were not demanding fundamental changes in society, but simply reform of higher...
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Chairs
University of Stirling. Robbie Taylor, chairman of Robert Taylor Holdings Ltd and of the Investors in People Scotland, board member of the Forth Valley Education Business Partnership and director of...
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Grants
University of Liverpool. continued. Professor S. Williams, Pounds 87,163 from the Natural Environment Research Council (characterisation of typical lake water bacteria); Professor D. Black and Drs M...
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Honorary degrees
South Bank University DLitt: Melvyn Bragg, presenter and editor of the South Bank Show, controller of arts, London Weekend Television and author; Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of...
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Mo info
(Photograph) - Mo info: Mo Mowlam, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, opened the University of Teesside's Pounds 11 million Learning Resource Centre in her Redcar constituency last week. The...
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Danes in dumb dames row
A leading Danish historian has been officially endorsed as an external examiner at the country's top universities despite a storm over his view that women have become too dominant in higher education...
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DFEE's outline for UK's role in Europe
HIGHER education officials have echoed Tony Blair's call for a more positive approach to Europe during Britain's presidency of the European Union. As the prime minister set out his agenda for the...