Deakin student quits after victimisation claim
A 34-year-old Englishman who made national headlines in Australia last year after threatening to take Deakin University to the Trade Practices Commission for misleading advertising, has quit his...
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No more fool's gold
The National Union of Students' decision to review its battle cry for a return of historical grant levels can be seen as its own Clause Four debate. As in the Labour Party's modernising review, it is...
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Bucked trend fizzes up
Speakers at a combined Royal Society/British Academy conference this week were fizzing with excitement. The conference was the Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man - and the...
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Fair pay should be on display
The stark facts about how lecturers' pay increases have lagged behind those of school teachers and other groups since 1979 (THES, March 31) apply no less to academic staff in the new universities and...
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Fair pay should be on display
I read with interest your league table of vice chancellors salaries but was rather puzzled as to why you did not publish the precise information for Oxford Brookes vice chancellor, Clive Booth. For...
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China looks to the 21st century
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, is to tweak its research strategy to focus more directly on economic development under its next Five Year Plan (1996-2000). The...
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Fair pay should be on display
The survey of vice chancellors' pay (THES, March 24) was both informative and timely. As pay talks begin for higher education staff who are not academics it is difficult to absorb the shock-horror of...
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Levy the loaded
Last week the Labour leaders of the National Union of Students began to ditch the union's commitment to free education. At the annual conference they announced that there would be a "review" of NUS's...
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FE dispute needs flexible friendship
I agree with David Bunch's rejection of "gratuitous personal attacks" (THES, March 24) but note he goes on to describe managers who do not share his view of the FE dispute as "faltering voices". As a...
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Apocalypse now?
Bruce Hoffman fears that the Tokyo gas attack could herald the start of a lethal era of religious terrorism. Last month's deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground marks an historical...
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Bonnie mots
Olga Wojtas reports on the task to digitise Auld Scots. The impact of technology has now reached medieval Scots. For almost 80 years, editors of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...
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Lord Runciman at the Royal Society
(Photograph) - Eminence grise: Darwin loitered in the background as Lord Runciman (above), fellow of the British Academy, and John Maynard Smith (below), fellow of the Royal Society, hosted a joint...
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Skin survives test of time
The skin properties of a man discovered in an Alpine glacier in 1991 have remained virtually intact for five millennia, Bradford University pharmacists have discovered. The scientists have examined...
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Sciences make their mark
Industry in the former East Germany is struggling, unemployment has rocketed and the social fabric is stretched to breaking point - but Bonn can claim that the costly and painful measures imposed on...