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Swimming in a purer stream
Green Chemistry
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Curved arrows that hit both American and British targets
Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry - General, Organic and Biochemistry
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No nearer what made genius tick
A Life of Chemistry
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Earth's bounties analysed
The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry - Environmental Chemistry
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How Jupiter keeps its red spot
Visions of the Future
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a highly literate Goldsmith: "It is often said that there are no working-classes in England now, that...
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Laurie Taylor column
To:the University of Poppleton. From: the office of the vice-chancellor. Subject: new year's message. Dear member of academic staff, May I begin by wishing each and every one of you a happy and...
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Letter: Reward excellence 1
The Higher Education Funding Council for England's decision to use the results of this year's research assessment exercise to reward the full range of research success is a sound investment ( THES ,...
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Letter: Reward excellence 2
A recent paper circulated in the history faculty with a digest of the submission figures that got the faculty its 5* bears out the correctness of press rumours that Cambridge came top only by putting...
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Letter: Reward excellence 3
I am struck by the low number of research submissions, relative to other university subjects, for area studies of regions such as the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Given their...
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Letter: Reward excellence 4
In my department, a grade 5 was achieved by excluding some staff from the RAE submission, replacing others with people from Russia and Eastern Europe and by making a third of staff "teaching only"....
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Letter: High cost of less well-prepared
Universities are busy preparing responses to the Higher Education Funding Council's consultation on student supply and demand for the January 25 deadline. Key issues are whether to retain control on...
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Letter: Fractional errors 1
The short answer to Dick Leigh's letter ( THES , December 21/28) is that the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme is written with age 60 as the normal retirement age whereas the Universities...
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Letter: Fractional Errors 2
H. C. S. Ferguson misunderstands (Letters, THES December 14). The possible changes to the USS on which I and some colleagues on its trustee board have consulted members, if implemented for any period...