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  1. Would aliens send us their soap operas?

    Are we unique, or is there life elsewhere in the universe? Geoff Watts surveys the scientific thinking Definitive evidence of life on Mars. That was the confident claim made in early 2001 by Imre...

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  3. Your credit welcomed here

    The idea of universally recognised course credits and joint degrees across Europe is on its way to becoming reality. Harriet Swain reports Funky guides designed to help students choose from the UK's...

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  4. How I stripped away postdoc depression

    Simon Francis found himself with a PhD in one hand, a toilet brush in the other - and no desire for academic life A year ago, the sense of achievement that my doctorate had once given me had reached...

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  5. Still riding the crest of every wave

    Like the rest of Britain, careers agency the Central Services Unit has moved on in 30 years. Mike Hill reports When the Central Services Unit came into being on August 1 1972, created by the then...

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  6. Trends in HE: The rating game

    Making your creditworthiness public is common in the US and a few enterprising UK institutions are joining the club. David Jobbins reports In the next few weeks, two more UK universities will join a...

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  7. In brief 3

    If Chester College gains degree-awarding powers, it will become a full university in five years not by 2005 ("Chester hopes merger will bring new status", THES , August 30). Tom Lawrence Wirral,...

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  8. Enron teaches an ethics lesson

    Much of the debate about the Enron debacle and its implications for the accounting profession has focused on the differences in corporate governance structures and financial reporting conventions...

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  9. Monkey business

    The new Quality Assurance Agency handbook expects audit teams to read all external examiners' reports for higher education institutions. What quality of report can they expect? If QAA auditors find...

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  10. Rights plan all wrong 1

    Sir Alec Broers claims that Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have more restrictive intellectual property policies than the policy he proposes for Cambridge University ("...

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  11. Rights plan all wrong 2

    MIT's policies are more liberal, not more restrictive, as Sir Alec Broers states. Intellectual property associated with independent research lies with the inventor or author, not with MIT. The...

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  12. Rights plan all wrong 3

    Sir Alec Broers describes three reactions to the proposed changes to intellectual property rights policy at Cambridge. I oppose this change but fall into none of Sir Alec's categories. I have no...

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  13. When do you whistle? 1

    Graeme Catto, president of the General Medical Council, suggests whistleblowing should be an part of undergraduate education ("Medics learn to blow whistle", THES , August 16). However, the issue of...

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  14. When do you whistle? 2

    Your otherwise excellent report ("Privy Council asked to rule", THES , September 13) on the Swansea Institute, where students were allegedly told examination questions in advance, was marred by the...

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  15. Make maths count 1

    Jonathan Osborne (Letters, THES , September 13) must have known that his closing swipe at Tony Gardiner ("Policy does not add up", THES , September 6) saying "perhaps he would care to put his own...

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