Corporate crackdown
As academics struggle to perform for quality assessments, Rebecca Boden is concerned about the 'creeping cancer of managerialism'. Successive corporate scandals in the late 1980s ensured that...
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Why I... believe all PhD students should be grilled in public
The email was unambiguous: "As opponent, your role is to summarise the dissertation, interrogate the candidate I and then sum up the strengths and weaknesses." The invitation might have added, "Iin...
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Life factory opens up
The ribosome, nature's ultimate nanotechnologist, is now starting to surrender its secrets. Giselle Weiss reports. Researchers have announced the latest in a series of spectacular developments...
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Cutting edge: Moshe Rosenberg
The art of cheesemaking emerged from the need to preserve surplus milk. It has now evolved into a multidisciplinary, scientific and technological fermentation industry. The quality and commercial...
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Memories are made of this
Men and women use different parts of their brains when forming emotionally charged memories, a new study has shown. In two rounds of tests involving horror movie clips, 11 men and 11 women had their...
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Be wary of the Ides of March
It is one of the most notorious predictions in history, yet a new study challenges the tradition that Julius Caesar was give a month's notice to "Beware the Ides of March". Analysis of contemporary...
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Make students mark
When students assess one another's practical work, they gain insight into the material while staff gain time, argues Ian Hughes. Practical work is a key part of degree courses in biological sciences...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ... Maurice Saatchi argued for a reduction in taxation. Perhaps Maurice Saatchi would be well advised to talk to his Conservative colleague David Willetts, who, among others,...
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Agony Aunt
Q) There is always so much to be done at work - lecturing, researching, travelling to conferences. How can I fit it all in? A) Be strategic, sit down and look at your key roles and responsibilities....
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times The British government is to spend £30m preparing the National Health Service for the "genetics revolution" and a further £10m setting up four "knowledge parks" that will bring...
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Latest international news
Australia's aboriginal intake drops Australia’s vice-chancellors are to seek talks with federal education minister David Kemp after statistics revealed a fall of more than 15 per cent in...
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Latest UK news
Former parliamentary speaker honoured with statue A bronze sculpture of Betty Boothroyd, former speaker of the House of Commons, is to be unveiled at the Open University tonight. It will form part of...
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Visits to the European University Inst. Library, Florence
Deadline: 22/02/2002
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Laurie Taylor Column
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor As you will be aware from the emails that have emanated from this office in recent weeks, our Open Day will be held this year on...
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Letter: Hiding under Bush
It is easy to react to President Bush's apparent rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change with claims of "irresponsible" and "pariah" ("Bush's Kyoto stance angers UK scientists, THES , April...