Net loss is a big gain
Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...
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Buy a book, win a burger?
Confusion reigned in the book trade this week after the collapse of the 100-year-old Net Book Agreement. The decision by publishers and high street booksellers to pull out of the NBA has meant the...
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The O. J. Simpson trial and rotten apples
Academics are to blame for the neglect of police racism unmasked by the O. J. Simpson trial, argues Christopher Cooper. The United States scholarly community has contributed to the existence of Mark...
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African Aids study to raise awareness
With an Aids disaster no longer avoidable in Africa, there is an urgent need to begin planning for large-scale loss of life and the serious impact on economies and development. In response, the...
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Sporting chance for the millions
In response to Ged Roddy's comment on my article "The Common Health Games" (THES, August 25), I have nothing but praise for what goes on at Bath University and other such institutions of higher...
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Policy on disabled needs a more strategic approach
Your article on university access and support for disabled people (THES September 29) took a narrow focus. It is correct to highlight the continuing personal struggles by students with disabilities...
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Pillorying of Exeter
Several questions are raised by the unfortunate pillorying of Exeter University's MA course in English on your front page (THES, September 29). Clearly the administrative systems governing these...
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Academic with a mission to teach
Current concerns about higher education refer too little to defects in its basic function. While research (as well as being right in itself) can bring quick cash, self-gratification and league table...
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Don's diary
FRIDAY. Arrive Compton Durville, Somerset, in good time for supper with the convent Sisters. Most meals used to be silent, now only breakfast is. Even that is a strangely moving experience but...
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Budget against student wastage
Over the next few days university registries will be waiting anxiously to see how many of their old and new students fail to enrol. But this wastage is far from unavoidable, even with the advent of...
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Man who turned the lights on
Complexity theory guru or great British eccentric? Lucy Hodges meets Stuart Kauffman who simulates the origins of life on a computer As a Marshall scholar at Oxford in the early 1960s, Stuart...
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Governor cuts row
University of Liverpool plans to halve the size of its governing body are ill- judged and may have repercussions on other institutions, according to university teachers. Liverpool's plans, endorsed...
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Gathering of quality chiefs
The first steps towards forming a single quality body, ordered last month by Education and Employment secretary Gillian Shephard, were taken this week as the major players met in London. The Quality...
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Labour ducks Pounds 10bn bill
"New, young" Labour swept over "old" Labour on further and higher education policies at its party conference in Brighton this week. Battle was joined on the conference floor over a composite motion...
