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Cash proposal to recruit teachers Undergraduates would be paid up to £2,000 to train as teachers during their summer holidays under plans unveiled today. Other initiatives outlined in the...
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Latest international news
Mexican undergraduates face expulsion Students who last week held captive more than 30 political science professors by removing their trousers and shoes face expulsion from the National...
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TV & radio guide - Monday
Schumann's Lost Romance (4.30 am C4). Did Clara Schumann distort our view of husband Robert's work by suppressing some of his music after his death in 1856? Cellist Stephen Isserlis investigates,...
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TV & radio guide - weekend
SATURDAY February 10 » Breaking the Seal : Military Records (9.30 am BBC2). Part three of Open University series on archives first shown last year. Pounds, Shillings and New Pence (10.30 am R4). Evan...
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Laurie Taylor column
All rise for the vice-chancellor. Thank you, bursar. As you will know, this emergency meeting of senate has been called to deal with our recruitment crisis. Despite everyone's best efforts, there is...
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Letter: Monster spends
As promised on your front page, James Lovelock's review of The Quest for Mars (Books, THES, February 2) did slay some monster myths about Mars. But I would be sad if it spawned a new myth. Lovelock...
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Letter: RAE is failing us
While I agree that excellence in research comes through diversity (Research, THES, February 2), another factor is equality of opportunity for emerging subjects. Unfortunately it looks as though the...
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Letter: Rude awakening
Over recent months I, too, have received a number of emails from ac.uk addresses - among them, Portsmouth, Southampton and Huddersfield - inviting me to subscribe to pornographic sites or to clear my...
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Letter: Voyage of rediscovery
I am mildly amused that Denmark is the latest country to discover that counting research publications devalues research ("Re-user friendly data", THES, January 26). The same discovery was made by the...
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Letter: Luton qualification
The quotes attributed to me on the front page last week ("Cuts looming as students fail to sign up", THES, February 2) require qualification as to their accuracy and legitimacy. I was invited to...
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Letter: Impoverishment of student life
I am a graduate in economics, having finished my studies last summer. I could identify with many issues raised in your story ("MPs hear harsh loans truth", THES, February 2), but I feel you have only...
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Letter: Impoverishment of student life (2)
German foreign minister Joscka Fischer, icon of the peaceful 1970s student protests, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP for the French Greens, are caught up in controversy about the "wild days" of student...
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Letter: Impoverishment of student life
Young people are fortunately cleverer than government or Universities UK give them credit for. Many surveys demonstrate that employers demand mainly generic transferable skills, which can be...
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Letter: DNA considerations
Events at Alder Hey Hospital have highlighted the deficiencies in the Human Tissue Act 1961 and in the oversight mechanisms for the collection of tissue and organs for medical research. Health...
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Letter: It's all Thatcher's fault
I agree that we will have to establish whether HE institutes furnish qualifications or teach students to think ("Why I..., THES, January 26). I blame Thatcherite culture for this. In 1995 at King...