Artificial life
More than 60 years ago, the young Irish crystallographer John Bernal anticipated the possibility of machines with a life-like ability to reproduce. "To make life itself will be only a preliminary...
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Running up that hill
Can Clinton win? Huw Richards looks into the American political scientists' crystal ball It's my job you're after" says the banner toted by the grim-looking chap on the cover of the programme for...
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Budget against student wastage
Over the next few days university registries will be waiting anxiously to see how many of their old and new students fail to enrol. But this wastage is far from unavoidable, even with the advent of...
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Don's diary
FRIDAY. Arrive Compton Durville, Somerset, in good time for supper with the convent Sisters. Most meals used to be silent, now only breakfast is. Even that is a strangely moving experience but...
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Easy end to an empire
As Britain entered the post-colonial age some four decades ago, Dean Acheson, principal architect of postwar United States foreign policy, made his notorious comment that while Britain had lost an...
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Academic with a mission to teach
Current concerns about higher education refer too little to defects in its basic function. While research (as well as being right in itself) can bring quick cash, self-gratification and league table...
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The learning circle of life
I was interested to read your article (THES, September 29) on the support and training for new academics. South Bank University has been at the forefront of these developments, offering an 'M' level...
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Pillorying of Exeter
Several questions are raised by the unfortunate pillorying of Exeter University's MA course in English on your front page (THES, September 29). Clearly the administrative systems governing these...
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Lesson from hard school of Knox
The concluding statement in Diana Green's articles (THES, September 15) that "perhaps the best use of management tools in this area would be to make a positive link between quality, evidence of its...
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Policy on disabled needs a more strategic approach
Your article on university access and support for disabled people (THES September 29) took a narrow focus. It is correct to highlight the continuing personal struggles by students with disabilities...
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Practicality not enemy of art in architecture
Your report on Professor Monk's architectural course at Luton (THES, September 22) has a surprisingly philistine ring. It is also gratuitously insulting to Richard Rogers and Norman Foster in...
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Barbed comment
Your editorial which, broadly, comes down on the side of more mature students in higher education (THES, September 29) should have gone further. In my view no male students should be admitted for a...
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Sporting chance for the millions
In response to Ged Roddy's comment on my article "The Common Health Games" (THES, August 25), I have nothing but praise for what goes on at Bath University and other such institutions of higher...
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Raiding the piggy bank
The Government looks set to reduce its commitment to basic research yet further - despite their protestations in the science White Paper, Realising Our Potential. Money allocated to the research...
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African Aids study to raise awareness
With an Aids disaster no longer avoidable in Africa, there is an urgent need to begin planning for large-scale loss of life and the serious impact on economies and development. In response, the...