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The Council for Learning Resources in Colleges is offering a Pounds 500 award for innovative use of information and learning technology, for example internet/intranet pages of the learning resource...
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Cure for hype on the cards
Web data needs to be sorted by people we trust. Step forward the librarians says Stephen Pinfield. For years we have relied on librarians to catalogue books. On ledgers and cards, then on microfiche...
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Development cloaked in emperor's new clothes
The new jargon of international aid agencies loses sight of the goal - to fight poverty, says Helen Hintjens. All the evidence suggests growing absolute and relative poverty in the "developing world...
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Recession could pay dividends for higher education
Recessions are not all bad news for higher education, unlike for banks. If the City of London ceases to offer rocket scientists million-pound bonuses, they may stay in academic life. If the brightest...
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Real narrow science
Scientist John Lloyd's widely held view supporting "critical realism" against anti-realism that science discovers "a realityI out thereI independent of our theorising" (Letters, THES September 18)...
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Wrong note on organs
I find it extraordinary that a philosopher dares to conclude a trite and sophistical discussion about the sale of human organs for transplant ("Why II", THES, October 2) with an admonishment to us to...
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Some still pursue desire to teach
Your leader ("Please sir, why should anyone want to teach?" THES, October 2) stated that "too few want to be teachers", yet evidence from the post-compulsory sector would appear to contradict this....
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Some still pursue desire to teach
It was encouraging to see the attention you gave to teacher training ("Teacher training exodus", THES, October 2), but you failed to highlight that the lack of applicants and the reduction in...
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Tough guy fantasies
Kingsley Browne ("Glass ceiling, biological floor", THES, October 2) is absolutely correct in saying that there is no "reason" to suppose that women in the past were less enthusiastic about chaps who...
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Tough guy fantasies
It is tempting to ignore the dafter pronouncements of sociobiologists, but Kingsley Browne is a dinosaur too far. Grandly stating that many women wrongly believe they face discrimination on the...
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Ill-advised authorities
The refusal of some health authorities to immunise students studying at the University of Cardiff against meningitis could cost lives. Although recently published guidelines ("Students at risk after...
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Free, but never cheap
It started with free pens, fancy bags and baseball caps, now it's free overdrafts and mobile telephones. At Barclays, it's an interest-free overdraft of up to Pounds 1,600 and a free "easylife...
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Queen's, think again
John M. D. Kremer is correct in saying that the plans by Queen's University Belfast rest on a distorted view of the duties of university teachers and of the functions of departments (Letters, THES,...
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Back on the shelf
The threat of prosecution spurred a university to fight for its library rights. Peter Knight tells the tale. Twelve months ago the police confiscated a book of photos by the gay photographer Robert...
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Why I... am returning to university teaching despite two blockbuster novels
James Hawes, Author and lecturer at University College, Swansea I wrote my first bestseller, A White Merc with Fins, while I was teaching. It came out in January 1996, sold well and created a buzz....