Walls have ears
Visitors to the Virtual Reality Software and Technology conference from December 20-22 at University College London will see CAVE, a VR room where the walls are screens and no headsets are required,...
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Five-year plan is a ray of light
A programme investigating rain forest dynamics has won new funding. Wendy Barnaby reports A new paradigm in tropical ecology research is emerging from work in Southeast Asia, and is so successful it...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk The Arts and Humanities Research Board www.ahrb.ac.uk Research...
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Women must be encouraged to go for top jobs
The THES's annual league table of women professors once again presents a dismal picture. The total is crawling up - threefold since the early 1990s - but three times very little is still less than...
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Autonomy eroded by the long arm of the state
Government intervention is becoming a threat to academic freedom, writes Stephen Court June 4 is an unhappy day for anniversaries. It marks ten years since the Chinese government's brutal clampdown...
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Universities have key role in reducing poverty
Universities in developed and developing countries are strongly placed to guide the government in its prime overseas aid aims: halving the numbers living in extreme poverty and achieving universal...
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Flaming protest
It is good to see the Association of University Teachers looking for novel forms of protest about pay, such as refusing to answer emails for a day ("Bosses condemn strike call", THES, May 14). The...
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Censors and sensibilities
Gordon Stewart's claim to have suffered from censorship because of his heterodoxy ("What happened to scientists' academic freedom?", THES, May 21) will have irritated epidemiologists, although...
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Censors and sensibilities
Does being a personnel director who wants to end the statutes of universities make me "hostile", as David Triesman claims ("Threat to academic freedom 'will mean war'", THES, May 21)? Not in my view...
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UfI package deals
University for Industry will charge about 20 per cent only on UfI learning packages supplied through Learning Centres, not for consortia member's own materials, as stated ("UfI will take cut of brand...
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Support for TVU
As THES readers will have noted from the recent listing of top-ranking institutions in 70 subjects in the UK, Thames Valley University was one of the three jointly top-rated departments of...
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Whistleblowing
As a pro-vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, I am uncertain about whether to be complimented or exasperated by the attention we have attracted in your columns recently. I cannot let Phil Baty's...
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Whistleblowing
For the second week running, Phil Baty's column has attacked Middlesex University. We will keep our comments on "Middlesex jitters" (Whistleblowers, THES, May 14) as brief as possible. Middlesex is...
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How about English Not?
The "Welsh Not" imposition (Letters, THES, May 14) has entered nationalist mythology. It was a tactic not to destroy Welsh (why should Welsh schoolteachers want to do that?) but to get children who...
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You parasites
Neither Andrew Oswald's "market-led salaries" ("Pay the going rate", THES, May 7) nor his special-interest critics' alternatives ("Readers' reactions", THES, May 14) are any substitute for real...