Transatlantic degrees mean huge investment
The article "Enrol with Uncle Sam" (THES, September 15) was surely useful for anyone contemplating graduate studies in the United States. There was, however, one very important detail missing. While...
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Register surprise
The list of names that Laurie Taylor shows as being in Dr Piercemuller's new first year seminar group seems surprisingly small (THES, September 22). I can only think that the names of the other 30...
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Misgivings on assessment
I also share some of the misgivings of Michael Gruneberg (THES, September 15) and Mark Griffiths (THES, September 22) over research assessment. Research results frequently lend themselves to...
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Training for the dole queue
Your article "The training scheme jobless" (THES, September 22) reported that three-quarters of unemployed adults who joined Training for Work schemes were unemployed after they finished the scheme....
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The age of reasoning
Dialogue is essential for progress of the vivisection debate, writes Kenneth Boyd Suppose you have been transported to an ideal realm where you are deprived of all memory of what you were in this...
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Echo of the past
They say if you live long enough history repeats itself. Well I have not lived very long but the current debate on national standards for degrees reminds me of something . . . Did I hear someone...
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The long, hot debate
Is global warming the scourge that will kill off our planet or is it a myth? Ayala Ochert assesses the climate of opinion (left) while Fred Singer argues that we need to collect more scientific...
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Evolution of Dan
Daniel Dennett has a hit list of those he thinks are obstructing the march of evolutionary theory. Aisling Irwin reports Daniel Dennett, philosopher, is swatting flies. Until now he has been content...
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Primate suspect
The sexual appetites of the sacred monkeys of India brought feminism and fame to oil heiress Sarah Hrdy. Lucy Hodges profiles her When Sarah Hrdy set out as a postgraduate student to study the sacred...
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Whitehall's superconductor
Robert May tells Martyn Kelly how he helped bring order to scientific chaos The Government's new Chief Scientific Adviser is, if the headline writers are to be believed, about to bring chaos to the...
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Portsmouth court
Portsmouth University, whose governors have been criticised by an independent inquiry, is planning to set up a higher court of appeal under the chancellor for board members and possibly other staff....
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Art's unhappy eaters
El Greco, painter of tall, thin figures and Holbein, painter of shorter, stockier ones, may have suffered from eating disorders which distorted their images of body shape, a psychologist suggested...
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Action on standards
Vice chancellors may move towards uniform degree standards when they meet in Belfast next week. The annual residential meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will receive an...
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Action on standards
The proportion of students taken on to foundation courses after failing their A levels is tiny, the Higher Education Quality Council has told the Government. A report ordered by Gillian Shephard,...
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Action on standards
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's determination to be the main quality watchdog for universities north of the border seems to have derailed plans for a UK-wide single quality agency, at...