Racism is not bred in a brain
Ethnic minorities find the UK film and TV industry shut to them, says Sara Wajid, but Geoff Watts reports on an experiment proving that racism is not hard wired. Stripped of its layers of ham,...
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Digging the dirt on coal conflict
Strikes and Solidarity
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Barred of Avon
Were Dermot Sheils and John Holland sacked by Stratford-upon-Avon College because they are disabled? Staff at the college and both men's trade unions fear so. Mr Sheils's and Mr Holland's employment...
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Labour pledge on research units
Hopes that a Labour government would rescue the Office of Science and Technology from the Department of Trade and Industry were diminished yesterday when Labour said that it would only "review" the...
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How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
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Analysis: So what are you good at?
UK universities have great brand names and are good at research but not much else, a conference heard. Alison Goddard reports Universities and colleges should play to their strengths and stop trying...
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Darwin for true believers
The Dynamic Society Exploring The Sources of Global Change
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Cutting edge
David Wield Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy and chair of the development policy and practice group at the Open University If biotechnology innovators want to be successful, they should...
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Sainsbury cash talk cheers up scientists
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Gordon Brown: 'The new economy of the next decade will need more competition, more entrepreneurship, more flexibility,...
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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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A woman on the edge of a nuclear precipice
Veteran nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott says a belligerent, ill-informed US president controlled by staff wanting ever-more exotic weapons has raised the risk of nuclear war to a post-cold war...
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Summary of delegations' comments on the proposed directive on the promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market
Brussels, 17 Dec 2002 Full text of Document 15321/02 prev. doc. 13987/02 ENER 253 ENV 646 CODEC 1396 No. Cion prop.: 11381/02 ENER 167 ENV 433 CODEC 975 (COM (2002) 415 final) Subject: Proposal for a...
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A bewildered tribe
As The THES turns 30, Simon Jenkins and Tariq Ali review three turbulent decades within and without academia. After Margaret Thatcher lost power in 1990, her most revealing reflection was over her...
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How to develop a world of problems
Poverty and Development into the 21st Century. Second Edition
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Radical change warning
THE government is determined to "modernise and refocus" the higher education establishment, a conference on lifelong learning was told this week. "If the government can sweep to power and change the...