Budgets win prizes
Just what do we want to get for the billions the Government spends on research. The increased concentration of research funding in a few universities, highlighted by the imminent increase in research...
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Misquoted
My review of Peter Nicholls's Modernisms (THES, September 20) was rendered incomprehensible by the omission of quotation marks around: "Marinetti's deliberate reduction . . . mechanised currents of...
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Hole truths
John Davies reports on the problems archaeologists face in Jerusalem. The odd thing is it's sometimes called an archaeological tunnel in the press. But the tunnelling work has always been in the...
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Research probes IT value for Dearing
The alleged benefits of information technology in higher education are to be dissected and examined with sophisticated techniques imported from the United States. Researchers at three universities...
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Subscript for a free and easy system
JISC will extend and embrace new models of funding and delivery in its strategies towards the year 2000. The Joint Information Systems Committee's new five-year strategy recognises the importance of...
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Italian job
Among the most reliable of running stories with which the "fings ain't wot they used to be" section of the national press is wont to regale us on slow news days is the proposition - probably first...
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Doctors press fertility rights
Helping mothers to conceive their babies through in-vitro fertilisation is an economically viable medical treatment when used accurately and appropriately, according to Alan Templeton, professor of...
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Minister wages war on mega-campuses
The coming year should see radical changes for Italy's state university system. Luigi Berlinguer, minister for schools, universities and scientific research since April, has warned that the system is...
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Competence fatigue
Competence, like motherhood, is hard to be against. Of course people should be competent to carry out the job they hold. A cook must be able to cook, a professor of Greek to read Greek. So far so...
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Sorry, but Sunderland said yes
In response to comments by Liz Allen of Natfhe (Letters, THES October 4), University of Sunderland staff made it very clear that they supported the introduction of the Net Pay Enhancement Scheme....
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Legal child of an outlaw dad
Just as law figured strongly in her father's life so it will in Amber Marks's. But whereas he specialised in breaking it she is planning to uphold it. Harriet Swain finds out what it was like growing...
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California plans super-institution
California will not participate in the Western Governors' University planned by a consortium of states. It will develop plans for a super-institution using the Internet and other emerging...
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Kicking up the dust in a chaotic storehouse
Researchers are collaborating to bring order to the chaos of the Web. People find things on the network in different ways. The popular search engines - Alta Vista, Lycos, and so on - are heavily used...
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Scots see profit in research
A Scottish expatriate who heads one of the world's leading oilfield services companies is to spearhead a strategy to boost Scotland's economic wealth by commercialising higher education research....
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Top-marks theses get a chance to be bestsellers
Two enterprising German undergraduates who founded their own publishing company in order to publish their theses, believe they have stumbled on a lucrative gap in the market. Within nine months of...