Small success
Chemists at the University of Sussex have fabricated a series of novel molecular structures ranging from hollow cylinders to solid wires and tubes containing metal cores. The structures will boost...
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Direct connect
Universities are developing plans for the next generation of communications devices and transport technologies. The Association of University Administrators will be debating the impact of these plans...
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Wise move
Ingenta, the world's largest web resource for the search and delivery of research articles, has reached agreement in principle with Sage, global publisher of social science, media and communications...
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Institutions will finally enjoy era of autonomy
Kicking off a series of articles from Britain's think-tanks about universities in the 21st century, Madsen Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute predicts a diminishing role for government. It is unwise...
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NHS reform sets out big challenges
Ensuring the future of an effective National Health Service is the biggest challenge the government faces. Last week's NHS Plan is far-sighted, but long after it has been consigned to the archives,...
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Tuition beggars in land of the free
I would not presume to advise on whether British universities should charge "top-up fees", but employing US models for UK problems betrays a lack of deep knowledge of the American situation. *...
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Tuber tragedy
Your report and jolly cartoon (For the record, THES, July 28) concerning the fate of the Russian potatoes collected by the plant geneticist N. I. Vavilov and his co-workers fails to bring out the...
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Agreement defended
The national casualisation agreement is not perfect but some of the criticisms made of it - and of Natfhe for agreeing to it - are inaccurate (Letters, THES, July 28). Far from not aiming to reduce...
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Tongue tide
Your correspondent ("Losing a language to repair the past", THES, July 21) suggests that Afrikaans universities are subjected to ideological and political pressures to introduce teaching in English....
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Expenses legit
David Alexander can be reassured that the payment of expenses to the wife of the head of Surrey European Management School (Letters, THES, July 28) is legitimate. The transaction was properly...
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Feasting on history
Brian Brivati need have no fear about moving from histories of the Labour Party to histories of the doughnut ("Ringing the changes", THES, July 28). The respected historian of northwest England John...
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Cost of subject review
The Pounds 75,000 estimate for a single subject review (News, THES, July 21) is surely inaccurate. The real cost of a visit is much greater. For example, one carefully monitored single-subject visit...
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Missing: students in the soaps
Tom Wilson offers scriptwriters advice on getting higher education into the plot. A Martian seeing British television for the first time would form a strange view of student life. EastEnders has had...
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One jab for millions
MP Evan Harris explains why he has volunteered as a guinea-pig in trials of a new Aids vaccine My decision to volunteer as a human guinea-pig - in a trial of a new Aids vaccine - is neither brave nor...
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Why I ... think that alternatives to therapeutic cloning should also be explored
Richard Gardner. Henry Dale research professor of the Royal Society in the zoology department, Oxford University Chair of Royal Society working group on therapeutic cloning 7While I believe that...