Sino-Russian boarders
A 'Chinese peaceful expansion' has been taking place in south-east Russia. Zhores A. Medvedev looks at the four options under consideration to ensure the district does not become a Chinese republic...
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Total recall?
John Morton argues that theories which claim to recover lost memories are far from infallible When we, a group of academics and clinicians, were asked by the British Psychological Society to produce...
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A 'pornographer' of science
The research grants have dried up, so genetics professor Steve Jones is now writing and broadcasting about science as well as practising it. Kam Patel reports With much of his year already booked up...
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Why academics strike
The story of Nigerian universities in the 1990s is the story of a permanent crisis. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, with about 10,000 members committed to a struggle to restore a lifeline...
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Distractions of saving the worm
The Christmas break is now the only time when a university comes to a halt. The contrast between this all-too-brief few days and the rest of the year is all the more marked because the intense, often...
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Sharing ideas in accounting
Two recent developments might help to reassure Mr Stittle (THES, December 30) and others who feel concerned about the state of accounting education. The first is the establishing of a Special...
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Choose to do-it-ourselves
John Stoddart argues that self-regulation is the only route to high standards The creation of a single higher education sector in 1992 gave an opportunity to review radically the framework for...
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Carrying on regardless of students
Simeon Underwood highlights inconsistency in assessments When all the world and the quality assessment exercise were new, one of the few enjoyable features for us administrators was the response of...
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Pensions palaver
You published a letter ("Pension penalty clause", THES, November 18) from C. N. Refford of Cranfield University about the need to invoke the aid of his MP to get a response from the Teachers'...
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Don's Diary
Christmas Day. I love Christmas but carving the turkey (only for ten?) etc, brings on a serious attack of managerialism for which my children upbraid me like the stroppy AUT organisers they...
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Constructed criticism
In trying to marginalise the sociology of scientific knowledge into its own little ghetto, Steven Weinberg ("A zing of truth", THES, January 6) asserts what he takes to be a forceful analogy -- that...
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All right, said Fred
Just because he declared that God is dead and was the initiator of the post-modern period does not justify The THES ("Finding one's own Nietzche" Letters, January 6) adopting the psuedo-metaphysical...
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Maths days are not numbered
While the debate over the standards of the questions in University Challenge continues, the lectures "for children" from The Royal Institution shown on BBC 2 after Christmas only serve to underline a...
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Maths days are not numbered
The news about dropping mathematics degrees at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education should not pass without comment (THES, December 23). Under-recruitment to courses in which...
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Poll to tax the brain
Can I add my voice to that diminishing minority questioning the efficacy of a graduate tax ("How are sound degrees to be paid for?" THES, January 6)? Each year almost half our graduates enter the...