Letter: Research harmony
David Packham drew attention to the conflicts that can arise when university research engages with business ("Public interest comes before industry profits", Opinion, THES , March 30). With the...
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Leader: Twists in the tale of MIT's great web give-away
Argument is hotting up over whether knowledge and information generated by universities should be made freely available or whether it should be regarded as an asset the university or the individual...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a Canadian cultural critic: "The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology - is...
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To seek values shared though culture divides
Is it true that Christianity has no unified view? asks Richard Harries. The assumption running through this book is one that we have to take seriously: that we live in a postmodern world. In short,...
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No fear and much loathing
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigby - Unacknowledged Legislation
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Obscuring the body count
British Writing of the Second World War
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Oppressed fairies on a dictator's isle
The Tempest and Its Travels
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A cry for wounded Wales
The Collected Poems of Brian Morris
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Belletristic riffs on old Roman
Lucretius and the Modern World
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Kicking sand in the face of critics of unstageable theatre
Impossible Theater - The Trickster-function in the Theatre of García Lorca
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Poetry with something to prove
Blackbird Singing
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The ownership of knowledge
How can the public good of free access to information be balanced against the commercial necessity of paying for its creation? And what is the impact of the digital economy? In March 2001...
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Universities fight South Africa's Aids crisis
As South Africa prepares to lose more than 4 million people to Aids over the next decade, its universities appear to be the country's best hope for survival. Karen MacGregor reports. Like Banquo's...
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Age of growing concerns
Making the leap from adolescence to adulthood has never been more difficult, says social psychologist Terri Apter, which is why greater parental support is not only desirable, but essential. Parents...
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Would you give a great idea away?
In the fourth of our series on intellectual property issues, Stephen Phillips looks at commercialisation in the US, and Caroline Davis talks to a free information radical. The United States has...