Fair share of nothing
With the start of British Summer Time, the clock stopped on the next research assessment exercise. Institutions have made their decisions - which staff to enter, which publications to count....
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Free speech on the Net
This week, users of THESIS, The THES's Internet Service, will be able to join in a new form of scholarly publishing. We are transmitting one of the year's premier academic events, the Towards a...
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Numbers crunched
There are two ambiguities in Ray Monk's review ("Philosophy by Numbers", THES, March 15) of volume III of Kurt Godel's Collected Works. Both can suggest mistakes. Godel's argument for the existence...
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NUS abandons less well off
I am a politically independent student. Having attended the NUS conference last week I felt obliged to write in response to the disturbing policy of student funding which was passed. Your supplement...
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On the ball about talent spotting
Universities have a lot to learn from football clubs in the art of recruitment, argue Alan Jenkins and Andrew Ward. The Association of University Teachers executive argues that good university...
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Sticks and stones...
The tone and conclusions of the ill-tempered review of English Words (THES, March 15) surprised me. It is bizarre for your reviewer to dismiss my treatment of English word formation as "pedestrian"...
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Scholarly waves across the Mersey
For The THES to describe us (THES, March 29) as an "intellectual backwater" smacks of misplaced intellectual snobbery. Liverpool Hope, like other church colleges, makes a substantial contribution to...
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Lament for Northwest
As the MP for Lancashire West and secretary of the North West Group of Labour MPs in the House of Commons, I am dismayed to see yet another of our successful industries being undermined and under-...
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Engineers' delight
Your report on initial reactions to the Dearing 16-19 review (THES, March 29) concentrated on the proposal for earlier degree-level study, which encourages the system to respond to different learning...
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V-cs' hands on the knife
Responsibility for the crisis in higher education must fall as much on the vice chancellors as upon the Government - the crisis in funding is only an aspect of a wider malaise. John Bull's lugubrious...
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The rush to publish
Ned Thomas gives a university press view on the scramble to meet the research assessment deadline. On Thursday March 28, with one working day to go, the last two books we had promised would see the...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Today, we reach the culmination of 15 months of preparation for a quality assessment visit. Colleagues spend all day checking and rechecking the information we have provided. At a...
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No mark for effort skews assessment
The definition of quality used in the higher education sector is dependent on values and ideologies that see education as a service which is done to or provided for students defined as consumers,...
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America's man of stark ontrasts
Renowned sociologist and political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset tells Huw Richards why he finds the US exceptional, Canada fascinating and Ronald Reagan shrewd. While E. M. Forster set a virtually...
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Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was diagnosed a decade ago after the death of a Kent cow which had become edgy and unable to control its movements. The disease spread from 20 cases...