Business move
Work has started on the Open University Business School's prestigious new home, and it coincides with the release of a ROMcard that gives a multimedia view of the OUBS. The OUBS ROMcard looks like a...
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RSA opportunity
A Pounds ,000 fellowship has been set up in memory of Dick Onians, the late chairman of the Royal Society for the Arts. The aim is to give an opportunity to someone to take time out to develop an...
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Space winners
Two University of Sussex students have won cash awards for their computer science final-year projects, sponsored by Searchspace, an intelligent systems for enterprise automation company. The winner...
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Careers counsel
Anglia Polytechnic University and Cambridgeshire Careers Guidance have launched a website aimed at unemployed graduates. The website, called g-force, has been produced by the university's Ultralab...
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Faster still
IBM has unveiled the world's fastest computer - three times faster than the recorded speed of any other computer - capable of 12 trillion calculations a second. "ASCI White" covers an area bigger...
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Oz wizards make Cambridge call
Soon all you will need to find a cashpoint or let the Automobile Association pinpoint your expired vehicle will be a mobile phone, thanks to technology that identifies the location of the devices. It...
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Yogurt and hairs inspire web art
Cyber authors gathering in the flesh at Nottingham Trent University this week have been trying to define why web publishing has so radically and unexpectedly affected their writing. Most agreed that...
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Winter is over but growth comes at a higher price
This week's spending review may at last mark a turning point. Many in the universities who helped vote Tony Blair in three years ago, and who have since wondered why, will certainly hope so....
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Unlocking better value with local partnerships
Much more should be done to foster relationships between institutions and local organisations, says Nick Barnes Universities and colleges are important players in the local as well as the national...
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Here's hoping for a fairer share
My words at one of our degree ceremonies last week were not "bitter" (Leader, THES, July 14), even less did they reflect the "death of hope". Rather, they were a clarion call to seek to ensure that...
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Here's hoping for a fairer share
Your headline "Let's throw away Greenaway" (Letters, THES, July 14) certainly amused my colleagues but is premature given the arguments advanced. If Tim Curtin reads the report, he will find an...
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E-psycho battles
There is a generation of leftist intellectuals who think their mission in life is to defend the poor, stupid public against the fiendish enemies of the people. Instead of furthering our understanding...
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E-psycho battles
Evolutionary psychology is all that Steven and Hilary Rose accuse it of - and more. Most damning is its Cartesian, naively "realist" epistemology. Hence not only its reductionism; its "property"...
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E-psycho battles
I am dumbfounded Steven Rose has put his name to such a polemical piece on evolutionary psychology. First, instead of quoting from a real proponent of EP, Rose puts forward his own definition: "EP...
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Reluctant recruiters
I was interested to read that universities are being urged to consider promoting higher education to younger pupils to widen participation ("Children need hard sell to go to college", THES, June 30...