Science suffers from smiling suits in studios
One year on from the Wolfendale Report on Public Understanding of Science a number of initiatives have been enacted to encourage scientists to leave the safety of their research labs and explain...
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V-cs unilaterally disarmed
The Labour party has shot the vice chancellors' fox. The leaders of UK universities, in collaboration with higher education unions and the National Union of Students, have been campaigning vigorously...
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Steps to quality assurance
Roger Brown, in a speech to the Managing Universities programme, assesses progress The publication of the draft final report of the Joint Planning Group and its acceptance by the Committee of Vice...
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Snobbery along the binary line
AS HEAD of a philosophy department in a former polytechnic, where one philosophy programme was validated by Baroness Warnock in the days of the Council for National Academic Awards, I was intrigued...
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Snobbery along the binary line
YOU publish Tony Hepburn's account of studying history at Cambridge in the same issue as Mary Warnock's attack on university status for the ex-polytechnics. In the former, old-style university...
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Wrong umbilical chord
I hope that the seriously smug Jennie Bristow ("Students who can't cut the umbilical cord", Personal View, THES, October 18) continues to cope so masterfully with "life" as neither Sussex nor Kent...
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Wrong umbilical chord
Jennie Bristow portrays university students as people who have to pass "a couple of relatively minor exams at the end of the year" (try telling that to all those students facing their finals) and...
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Scots at the controls
I read with considerable surprise an article in the Scottish Educational Journal falsely alleging that at the Trades Union Congress I had attacked the role of a Scottish parliament in relation to...
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HERA for equality
I WAS saddened to read Opinion (THES, October 11) as it gave a biased and ill-informed impression of the COMCON project. The project was initiated in 1993 by a group of personnel directors and with...
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Working for oneself
David Albury's thoughts on the possible growth of self-employed scholars ("End of tenure, start of tender", THES, October 11) were very interesting. Having been head-hunted as a senior lecturer in a...
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Scientists true start
I was shocked by Keith Ward's reply to Richard Dawkins and Peter Atkins (THES, October 11) because of his illegitimate mixing up of religion and "the humanities". Ward has created the impression that...
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Write on
Reviewing books on writing systems (THES, October 18), Oliver Moore makes the remarkable claim that "no one has yet invented a purely written language". John Wilkins invented one as long ago as 1668...
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Oxford jackpot
Oxford University's research income has topped Pounds 100 million for the first time, it was revealed this week. Overall research income was Pounds 104.2 million for 1995/96, an increase of 10.4 per...
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Swansea opening
Departments of economics, history and politics at the University of Wales, Swansea, are being rehoused in a new building this term, following the official opening of the Pounds 3.5 million North Arts...
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Accountancy action
Nearly half of the members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales think there should be more on-the-job assessment of trainees working towards qualified status, a MORI poll...