Letter: Invert that snobbery 3
Paul Taylor (Soapbox, THES , October 26) provides discourse enough to underpin the looming barriers to progression from further into higher education. There is an obverse to his argument that there...
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Letter: Lack of places produces bias
Addressing gender barriers to career advancement within higher education is a complex issue, but Helen Hague's article ("How to make the old dinosaurs sing and dance to the tune of the new-girl...
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Leader: Nobody can win when there's no real choice
The Association of University Teachers needs a new general secretary. Finding the right person calls for a procedure consistent with the criteria of open and fair practice that the AUT is urging on...
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Leader: Success of pay system requires speed and unity
New pay negotiating machinery is lumbering into action. The Dearing report recommended a review of academic pay in 1997. The Bett committee, when eventually established, did not report until 1999,...
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Two fingers sure say a lot
Differences in our digits, visible in the womb, can predict much about the life that lies ahead of us, argues John Manning. Think of a foetus and its environment. What comes to mind? An individual...
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Clever brains stump the inquiring minds
In our series on Big Science Questions, Harriet Swain looks at controversies over intelligence and Robert Plomin discusses the crucial role of genetics. For a quality traditionally associated with...
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'g' is for ability but it's also for genes
In our series on Big Science Questions, Harriet Swain looks at controversies over intelligence and Robert Plomin discusses the crucial role of genetics The word "intelligence" means so many different...
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Stuck at the last temporal turnstile
Time travel is not just the stuff of science fiction, argues physicist Paul Davies, but to make it real we need a 'theory of everything' In 1905, just ten years after the appearance of H. G. Wells's...
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Record numbers start teacher training Recruitment to teacher training courses has hit a seven-year high. Education secretary Estelle Morris welcomed Teacher Training Agency figures which showed today...
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From today's UK papers
Training chief apologises John Harwood, the chief executive of the body responsible for post-16 learning and training in England, has issued a personal apology to college heads after he condemned 40...
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First RAE 2001 results expected next week Half the staff who were returned in this year’s research assessment exercise work in subject areas expected to gain the top 5 and 5* grades, according to...
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From today's UK papers
Drug trial plan offers hope to MS sufferers Hope could be offered to multiple sclerosis sufferers after the government revealed it may carry out clinical trials on 10,000 patients of the expensive...
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Call for research proposals
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US crackdown on student visas The United States is to tighten checking and tracking procedures for overseas student visas in the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. President Bush...