Researchers are assets, not burdens
JAMES Bowen (THES, Letters, April 24) displays the sort of views that many of us had hoped had expired with the demise of the previous government. He mistakenly treats individual research grants as...
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Views of a film-maker
I HAVE read the review of my book Indian Popular Cinema (co-authored with Wimal Dissanayake) with mixed feelings (THES, April 10). Nasreen Munni Kabbir's comments have more to do with a book on...
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of a pay rise
Michael Bett outlines the factors that will be considered by the independent committee reporting on academics' pay and conditions Most readers of The THES will have heard that an independent...
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Tax credits
THE original version of my assessment of Labour's first year (THES,May 1) made clear that the provision of choice as to how the working family tax credit will be paid to couples is a far from ideal...
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Invest in youth or pay Thatcher's price
Some of us, with only a small tongue in cheek, believe that what happens in student political caucuses today will have a direct impact on national politics in 20 years' time. The National Union of...
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Notes on a divided island
Developments in Northern Ireland have largely obscured a recent diplomatic setback for the Republic of Cyprus. Last month, Richard Holbrooke, the United States presidential emissary to Cyprus and the...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales DD: Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town and Metropolitan of Southern Africa (1986-96), chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission since 1995, awarded the...
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Academics, Blair discuss third way
ACADEMICS met Tony Blair this week having already set the agenda for a unique Downing Street seminar examining the scope for a third way between right and left in British politics. More than 25...
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NHS pay abuse fear
The public could be paying hundreds of thousands of pounds to academics who may be abusing a National Health Service pay award scheme, Cambridge University scholars will warn. Academics at Cambridge...
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Student appeals on the increase
Academic appeals by students at more than half of British universities have risen in the past two years, research suggests. Tim Birtwistle, a law lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University who...
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Don's diary
Thursday After three weeks of packing and distributing furniture, clothes, books and other household junk to friends and family we leave England (raining and cold) and fly to Italy (raining and hot...
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Holiday horror
(Photograph) - fifteen fire engines were called to deal with a blaze that engulfed an office and laboratory in Birmingham University's eight-storey biochemistry building on Monday. All staff were...
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Caffeine buzz
A company in Arizona is using leading-edge technologies to develop software for running colleges and universities. Buzzeo (www.buzzeo.com) used Neuron Data's Elements Advisor to develop its ZEOLogix...
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US campuses act to avoid violation of privacy laws
For years, American universities and colleges have made more and more information about their students available online: class schedules, addresses, telephone numbers, photographs and even grades....
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Pounds 1/3 m for pinpointed courses
A Pounds 300,000 grant from the Paul G Allen Virtual Education Foundation will support Oxford University's work on a system for delivering courses individually tailored for each student, writes Tony...