Female figures that don't add up
Diana Green, salary:Pounds 101,000 + Janet Finch, salary: Pounds 93,000 + Alaine Sommerville, salary: Pounds 46,000 = Pounds 240,000. John Quelch's salary = Pounds 252,000 Female vice-chancellors are...
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In brief
Reading Jay Pasachoff's review of Carl Sagan: A Life, (Books, THES, January 21) reminded me of Sagan's appearance in Private Eye's Colemanballs. His contribution was: "The speed of light is very fast...
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The Scottish Executive's proposals
* The abolition of tuition fees for all Scottish full-time higher education students in Scotland from autumn 2000, a year earlier than Cubie recommended. * The abolition of tuition fees for all...
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What they say about v-c pay
"Martin Harris has always said that he was sympathetic to our pay demands but that it was out of his hands and a matter for government. But if the vice-chancellors had shown some more restraint over...
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The particle's on
Daniel Kevles describes succintly physics's progress in the 20th century ("The particle's over", THES Millennium Magazine, December 24/31, 1999). In particle physics we are addressing a fundamental...
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Jobs out of context
The graduates-assumed-unemployed figure you quote for the University of East London ("Oxbridge tops table in student success", THES, January 21) was extracted from Higher Education Statistics Agency...
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Faulty grammar, but not dunces
Having just finished marking 76 scripts, I read William Rubinstein's article on history teaching ("A look to the future for Britain's past masters", THES, January 21) with some interest. I teach a...
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Network problems
Trisha Greenhalgh is quite right to point out that enthusiasm for teaching on the worldwide web is running ahead of any systematic knowledge of how students feel about it or whether they are learning...
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Network problems
David Noble suggests that distance learning offers the same empty promises made by promoters of the correspondence courses early last century (Enterprise, THES, January 21). While this may be the...
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Cold comfort
Most Cambridge academics do not support Wintercomfort, or the campaign to free Ruth Wyner and John Brock, as stated in Karen Gold's one-sided article, "Doing time for doing good" (THES, January 14...
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In brief
For the record, The THES of January 21 carried an entirely accurate report of the way in which the University of Surrey's charter had been extended to allow institutions to join it in a federal...
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In brief
In her understandable enthusiasm for the bucolic allure of Bretton Hall ("Liberation in merger", THES, January 21), your reporter has omitted a critical point about the proposed merger with the...
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In brief
University staff need not be surprised at the failure to improve their salaries or at the government's insistence on imposing a heavy research and assessment system when The THES can publish an...
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Thought for food
Tim Lang regards BSE as inadequate application of science, not poor communication of science ("The sour, unsavoury taste of food standards", THES, January 21). Yet he takes the nutritional impact of...
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Troubled college chief 'seconded'
Melton Mowbray College is set to be taken over by a Further Education Funding Council troubleshooter as principal Ken Masters leaves the college on long-term leave. Sources close to the college and...