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THE OPEN UNIVERSITY European funds Dr D. Dickenson, Pounds 393,443 from the BIOMED 2 programme of the EC (collaborative development of European biomedical ethics practitioner education). UNIVERSITY...
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Exclusive: shock headlines induce horror
How much do the media affect public perception of hazard? Quite a lot, according to a recent American survey. John Davies reports If we know more about health hazards than we used to it is thanks to...
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Honorary degrees
CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON DCL: Peter Taylor, lord chief justice; Michael Cassidy, chairman of the policy and resources committee at the Corporation of London. DSc: Brian Pitman, chief executive of...
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Signed-up members of the at-risk register
What makes some people feel more at risk than others? asks Lennart Sjoberg Striking differences between the attitudes of different European peoples to radiation risks are emerging in a five nation...
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Where storage failed to jar
Anna Vari describes how a power plant in Hungary managed to soothe local fears over the storage of nuclear waste Until recently, spent fuel generated by the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary has...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
It has been a difficult two weeks for Brunel University. Not only has The THES given David Marsland more free publicity for his latest book on the faults of the welfare system (THES, May 17), but a...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
David Marsland's continuing attempt to portray the welfare state as an unmitigated disaster is, as usual, wide of the mark. Although it has a number of shortcomings, the post-1945 welfare state has...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
David Marsland's article on the British welfare state deserves to be widely read. It is one of the most vivid caricatures of the bankrupt (and tired) conservative thinking that I have encountered in...
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Victims of a bureaucracy bash
Richard Davies says much that is true in his swingeing critique of Italian universities (THES, April 26). Indeed, they are badly in need of reform. But he omits to say much else that is also true,...
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Knowledge goes out to market
Developments in information and communications technology mean that knowledge has become divorced from organisations and places. In future, people will use knowledge where it is, not where it can be...
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Vulnerable but certainly not alone
I do not recognise myself or my writing in the comments (THES ,May 17) that Sarah Coakley's critics have been "vociferous"; that "post-Christian feminists such as Daphne Hampson I vehemently reject...
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Unfair to blame LEA employers
Smith, Marcus and Peacock (THES, Letters, May 17) blame the breakdown of talks on terms and conditions for local authority-employed FE staff on the "cynicism" of the employers' side. Their attitude...
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Ulster tries to bridge divide
The article on sectarianism in Ulster colleges (THES, May 3) painted a very negative picture of student attitudes in Northern Ireland. It failed to focus on the community relations work being carried...
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Ulster tries to bridge divide
Noel McAdam (THES, May 3) gave a misleading impression of segregation at Northern Ireland's two universities by stating Protestants travel "up to 25 miles to avoid studying in the same universities...
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Art of course assessment
Degree standards have been maintained by the switch in emphasis from exams to course work. We have been living through a decade and more of a declining unit of resource in British universities while...