Campus comrades in arms
INDEPENDENT universities are thriving in St Petersburg, the intellectual capital of Russia and Europe's fourth largest city. Peter the Great's grand classical city of canals and waterways has a...
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Value test for health studies
DECISIONS on whether to fund research into medical technologies may in the future be made by looking at the long-term cost implications of the possible different outcomes of the research. The Centre...
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Dodging the FE shrapnel
These days, when politicians discuss learning they mentally drop the L. In the run-up to a bitter general election battle no one can afford to forget about money for a moment. For further education...
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Survey reveals crisis fears
BRITISH academics think that higher education is in deep financial and academic trouble; but they cannot agree on a solution. A survey of academic staff from junior researchers to vice chancellors,...
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Scottish ratings rise
NINE out of 12 discipline groupings in Scotland have improved their research ratings, according to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. A SHEFC summary, using weighted-average ratings to...
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Informers and aliens in our midst
"We took no notice of these pedestrians. We didn't know if they felt sorry for us or if they were laughing at us. But doubtless we no longer existed for them, because they wished us not to exist, so...
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Dearing: lighten the gloom, please
The mood of pessimism in higher education has hardened noticeably in the past three years. Academics interviewed for The THES's latest survey (page 8) are even more concerned at the damage student...
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Errors in paradise
Derek Freeman is interesting and convincing in reiterating his well-known demolition of Margaret Mead's "evidence" for sexual permissiveness in Samoa (THES, December ). But he is surely as...
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Academic democracy
Many in Cambridge, including its vice chancellor, would argue that a great university has a responsibility arising out of its natural privileges to seek to act with generosity for the benefit of the...
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Pensions advice
Christopher Williams (THES, December 20) says academics must question how their pensions are invested. The Association of University Teachers raises this issue at Universities Superannuation Scheme...
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Flatlands fly to third dimension
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed fast software which turns flat-looking satellite pictures into landscapes with a realistic three-dimensional look. The...
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From a rock to a soft place in QuickTime
Images digitally stitched together into wrap-around panoramas make for a dramatic virtual field trip, Susan Nowak discovers. Imagine being able to walk around the mouth of a live volcano which may...
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Video editing costs fall
A new generation of digital video editing equipment, based on desktop PCs, is challenging the proprietary systems which dominate the market. UCL Images, the video studio of University College London...
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Tough nut with a sweet centre
Birmingham colleges are merging learning resources in a state-of-the-art library, Debby Raven reports. The designers of the new learning resources centre in Birmingham had a tough brief: design a...
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Clearing house for critical research
Globalisation - the movement to trans-state relations is being tracked by a new web site, John Davies reports Peter Taylor is accustomed to crossing borders. He was a member of an international...