We are not a 'Mum's army'
Brian Williams (THES, June 14) fears the erosion of the established professions such as teaching, social work, probation service and architecture by the rise of the "neo-professions". For some time...
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Feel-bad folly
Centre-left academic Peter Robinson tells Lucy Hodges why Tony Blair is storing up trouble if he fuels middle-class angst about job security whipped up by the media. New signs of a government public...
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The feel-bad fees factor
I was saddened to read that Birmingham University is considering a Pounds 700 fee for new students (THES, June 14). While studying there between 1988 and 1991, it was obvious to me that I was one of...
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Pincer move
(Photograph) - Pincer move: Michael Depledge, co-director of the Environmental Research Centre at Plymouth University, has led pioneering research which uses crabs to measure pollution. Infrared...
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Artists need a brush with PR
Universities and colleges should do more to promote the benefits of their arts courses, the Arts Council said this week. They ought to be clearer and more open about the kinds of skills and...
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A game of two pints
In a week when English sports writers had to concede that beer drinking might not be fatal to performance, an exercise scientist has offered hope for more modest sportspeople who cannot disentangle...
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Debagged
Alumnus to be proud of No 54 is a man to avoid if you are sensitive to noise pollution. Sean MacGlonin contributed greatly to the peace and quiet of central London last weekend by playing the...
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Scots see benefits of Westminster divorce
The establishment of a Scottish parliament could produce a new approach to running the education system, characterised by accountability and consensus. This view emerged at a conference on "Education...
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Belarus nuclear protest trials
Two Belarusian scientists have appealed for help from the international academic community to ensure they receive a fair trial. Yury Khadyka and Viachaslau Siuchyk were released from custody last...
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Quality of privacy is strained
You suggest (Opinion, THES, June 14) that departmental reviews involving outside peers have emerged as the most effective means of assessing and enhancing quality and that "within the privacy of such...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from one of the earliest reflections on the natural world: "Now, we proved earlier, during our lectures on nature, that there cannot be an infinite magnitude, and we...
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A miracle long in the making
The Technological Transformation of Japan
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Against the current
Andre-Marie Ampere
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Deep thinking in shallow waters
The Mangle of Practice