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The "For the record" column (THES, November 13) referred to the cancellation of the preliminary hearing scheduled to determine the competence of the claim for unfair dismissal by Martin Plant against...
The "For the record" column (THES, November 13) referred to the cancellation of the preliminary hearing scheduled to determine the competence of the claim for unfair dismissal by Martin Plant against...
A commonly used procedure apparently being imposed by personnel departments in making academic appointments at all levels - that of forming a shortlist on the basis of applications alone, and then...
Ray Monk argues that academic philosophy does not have to be dry, boring and useless Among the many, many things called "the new rock and roll" by journalists lately, the most surprising, perhaps, is...
Andrew Pakes is "out" but understands why many academics and students don't want to be It has been a gay few weeks in the media with the revelation that some cabinet ministers are really homosexual....
Two weeks ago in The THES... Valentine Cunningham warned that the study of English risked being swallowed up by cultural studies. Responses are still flooding in Anthony Easthope, Professor of...
Public perceptions of what causes violence are being challenged by a new study, writes Elizabeth A. Stanko. Can we really know whether crime and violence are decreasing or increasing? The publication...
A wide-ranging consultation on the structure and programmes proposed for the new National Endowment forScience, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) will be launchedlater this month.The consultation is...
The Wellcome Trust is to put upto Pounds 25 million into joint research on infectious diseases carried out by teams with participants drawn from the developed and developing world. Diphtheria,...
A Heriot-WattUniversity technician has won a Pounds 1,000 innovation award for amicroscope which could monitor the quality of a newgeneration ofsemiconductorsand chips. Lynn Edwards, aged 25,...
'There should be some failure. It means you are learning more,' Richard Brook tells Natasha Loder. As chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the United Kingdom's...
Although the EPSRC does not have institutes it does have fixed lifespan interdisciplinary research centres. Established under the old Science and Engineering Research Council, they were created to...
Amanda Stronza ...reports from Hell, or Infierno in Peru, on the effect of ecotourism on the rain forest, its people and the rich wildlife. I wanted to test some of our assumptions about the impact...
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society in London are launching a study on the implications of devolution for Scottish science and the British science base. The work group will be...
If research is getting you down and you believe it could be better organised, maybe a career in research policy is the answer. Guy Rickett, a research council employee on secondment to the House of...
A Pounds 175 million synchrotron could put Britain at the forefront of genome research, reports Julia Hinde. The comprehensive spending review brought a smile to the faces of scientists the country...