The Italian job: there's no material difference
I share many of Richard Davies's criticisms. However, his article is full of generalisations and misconceptions. Having studied and worked in both Italian and English universities I have come to...
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The Italian job: there's no material difference
If indeed the language department of the University of Bergamo is as bad as Richard Davies describes it, why should he have chosen to go there ("Academia as Roman holiday", THES, April 26)? Surely...
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Place your bets in sum wager
So Chris Ormell thinks he has a proof of the Fermat Theorem (Don's Diary, THES, April 26) and is prepared to offer Pounds 100 to anyone who finds a mistake. Well, I have not got time to find his...
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Labour lost in Arden takeover
Jonathan Bate ("Much ado", THES, May 3) worries about the future of the Arden Shakespeare after the International Thomson takeover of Routledge. He would have done much better to have worried earlier...
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Brand versus the pc bullies
The issue, (The colour of intelligence, THES, April 26) as Hans Eysenck observes, is one of free speech, the rest is politically-correct bullying. I should also point out that Mr Brand lives in Great...
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Testing times on credibility
The Higher Education Quality Council wants to be the core of the independent quality assurance agency now on the drawing board. If it is to do so, it must produce reports on institutions which are...
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Drum up cash or hit case
The Labour party's shadow chancellor, Gordon Brown, has caused some ructions in his party by proposing to remove automatic entitlement to child benefit from 16 to 19-year-olds so that the Pounds 700...
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Intellectuals arrested at Chernobyl demonstration
A Belarusian physicist is in prison without access to a lawyer and a lecturer from Minsk Polytechnic Academy in hospital with brain injuries as a result of a police attack on a rally to mark last...
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Industry's output fear
Austerity measures announced by Berlin's higher education senator Peter Radunsky have prompted a wave of outrage in its three universities. More than 26,000 students and university staff demonstrated...
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Viennese waltz on to streets in cuts protest
Austrian students are traditionally a good-natured, non-violent lot. One has to go back to 1848 to find real student radicalism. It is a standard joke that in Austria the May revolt of 1968 lasted...
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Mummies go to the doctor
Egyptology, once seen as an arts subject, has turned to science to unlock the mysteries of mummies. Most academic departments still teach Egyptology as a history or language option. But Manchester...
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Hunt for concrete solution
A technique that reveals the progress of disease in humans, animals and plants could help stop premature corrosion in concrete. Chlorides in water are highly corrosive and cause devastating damage to...
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Pounds asks MPs for Pounds 60m
Ken Pounds, chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, has called for a Pounds 60 million fund to help it meet its financial obligations to Cern, the particle physics...
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Fending for future
After HEFCE's first annual meeting Brian Fender talked to Tony Tysome about planning a funding system responsive to society's needs. Sir Ron Dearing has until summer 1997 to chart a future course for...