Global vision
(Photograph) - Global vision: the European environmental satellite ERS-2, above, will be launched next week carrying eight instruments, including the along-track scanning radiometer (ATSR-2), built...
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Mauritius wins loan
The island of Mauritius, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean known for its sugar fields, volcanic mountains and white beaches, is to receive a $16 million World Bank loan for higher education....
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Salary secrecy slammed
Many senior academic staff are in the dark about how their pay increases are awarded, according to lecturers' union Natfhe. It has blamed the scrapping of nationally negotiated scales for...
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The reel thing
As Oxford University tardily embraces film as a subject worthy of academic study, Ian Christie assures the traditionally trained that they can feel comfortable with the seductive magic of the cinema...
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Thou shalt honour thy sources
Jim Parlour argues that if we are going to lecture students on the evils of plagiarism, we ought to be clear about what it is. Wolverhampton University has launched a poster campaign to "warn...
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Our three pound engine
Paul Churchland argues that as the secrets of the brain are uncovered by neural science, its many ills will become as easy to treat as the ills of the body. The past five years have seen an...
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Past masters
Composer Jonathan Harvey recalls his former maestros. I liked several of my Cambridge tutors well enough, but I did not get the sort of teaching that I needed. Analysis was rudimentary, the idea of...
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`Keep your mind in hell and despair not'
Elaine Williams talks to Gillian Rose, the philosopher who has fused her scholarship, love affairs and experience of ovarian cancer into an extraordinary bestselling book. It takes an extraordinary...
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A contrary ventriloquist
For Oxford political theorist and former Thatcherite John Gray the central point is that there is no central point. David Walker reports on a self-confessed 'contrarian'. Philosophy is back. So...
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Unions in local pay scale fight
Scotland's two main academic unions have joined forces to repel a threat to national pay scales, despite being bound by separate negotiations. The Association of University Teachers Scotland and the...
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Employers' bodies explore the options
It is perhaps ironic that at a time when the further education sector has a pressing need to see the long-running dispute with Natfhe on lecturers' contracts settled as calmly as possible, the...
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All Confucian phooey?
Asia continues its quest to find its own soul. For centuries, Asia has been at the receiving end of aggressive Western expansion which reached its height during the high period of colonial expansion...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. Leave Heathrow for a week in America, attending a computing conference in Nashville, then travelling on to Chicago via a meeting at Massachusett Institute of Technology's Media Lab, in Boston...
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Quality warriors' battle of semantics
Natfhe welcomes proposals to reduce the duplication and bureaucracy of the present quality assurance system and supports an audit-based rather than assessment-based approach (THES, March 31). We...
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Quality warriors' battle of semantics
The continuing "debate" (THES, March 31) regarding quality assurance in higher education appears erroneous. The plethora of interchangeable jargon relating to quality assurance theory probably means...