Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Scientists critical of the Government have been enjoying a field day over the latest BSE...
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Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was diagnosed a decade ago after the death of a Kent cow which had become edgy and unable to control its movements. The disease spread from 20 cases...
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The rush to publish
Ned Thomas gives a university press view on the scramble to meet the research assessment deadline. On Thursday March 28, with one working day to go, the last two books we had promised would see the...
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V-cs' hands on the knife
Responsibility for the crisis in higher education must fall as much on the vice chancellors as upon the Government - the crisis in funding is only an aspect of a wider malaise. John Bull's lugubrious...
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Scholarly waves across the Mersey
For The THES to describe us (THES, March 29) as an "intellectual backwater" smacks of misplaced intellectual snobbery. Liverpool Hope, like other church colleges, makes a substantial contribution to...
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On the ball about talent spotting
Universities have a lot to learn from football clubs in the art of recruitment, argue Alan Jenkins and Andrew Ward. The Association of University Teachers executive argues that good university...
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Numbers crunched
There are two ambiguities in Ray Monk's review ("Philosophy by Numbers", THES, March 15) of volume III of Kurt Godel's Collected Works. Both can suggest mistakes. Godel's argument for the existence...
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Unions pledge to fight cuts
As Canada's province of Quebec announced large cuts to higher education, lower-grade academics were engaged in their own struggle to safeguard their pay and conditions. Some 2,500 academics were...
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Malaysians plan corporate culture
The Malaysian government has announced plans to streamline the decision-making structures of the country's universities. Boards of directors are to replace councils as the highest policy-making...
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Kicking sand at Uncle Sam
The British Council is bidding to help UK universities challenge their American rivals' success inenrolling students from the Gulf. David Jobbins reports from Dubai Five years after the coalition...
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Modern classical recitals off key
Classical music performances may never be the same again, or even the same twice, following findings at a unique research centre at Southampton University. Research at the Centre for the History and...
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Immune system booster holds key
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. Scientists hope that they may have found a new treatment for tuberculosis based not on drugs but on...
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Troubled times
An everyday field trip it was not. The trip involved the Four Green Fields of Ireland for a start. And as a fact-finding visit, it differed also - for in Ireland there are very few agreed facts...
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Stay-at-home culture spreads among students
More and more university applicants are opting for institutions in their home region, according to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Almost half of successful...