Faith, hope and parity
Simon Lee tells Simon Targett why he gave up a law chair to run a higher education institute. It was like old times. As soon as the IRA returned to London, Simon Lee was back on the radio. After...
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Bird brain clue to memory riddle
A study of chicks' eating tastes has identified a molecule that affects their memory, which could provide a breakthrough in the quest to treat Alzheimer's disease. We are our memories. In old age we...
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Death in the air
As the nation's fears focus on contaminated beef, one scientist believes he has identified another threat to public health - overhead power lines. Since Channel Four's Dispatches programme reported...
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The follies Bayrou
Translation has always been recognised as a difficult endeavour. There is an old Italian saying "traduttore, traditore", which equates it to treason. This is because every word is spoken or written...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. 10am. Meet Julie in the gym. Commiserate about the frustrations of life as contract researchers. Julie's contract ends in five months, mine in two months. Row, cycle and jog while thinking...
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Union mergers make sense for all staff
Higher education is at a crossroads and the need for cooperation between trade unions in higher education has never been more pressing. With unions spanning academic and related support staff, a...
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Righteous paths
Dearing appears to be taking England down quite a different road from that being mapped out in Scotland, observe Michael Young and Ken Spours. The proposals of the Dearing review of qualifications...
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Flick and press squeezes
Two issues discussed in The THES (March 15) come together, fortuitously but far from surprisingly, to raise difficult ethical questions: in one case the refusal of Cambridge University Press to...
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Marked up
We have heard that scores of around 20 out of 24 are becoming the average score gained in the current round of Teaching Quality Assessment visits. This raises two questions: Are the assessors using...
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Counting the smart money
There is clearly a strong link between levels of resources available and levels of quality achieved in education, argues Clive Booth. What do the BSE scandal and higher education policy have in...
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Fillet of Whitehall
For years the Government has been ignoring expert advice. This week it has been hiding behind scientists. In the late 1980s, when BSE was first diagnosed in cattle, ministers acted too slowly and did...
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MAFF hears what it wants to hear
By 1988, the ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food was aware of a serious crisis. Cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or "mad cow" disease were confirmed from diverse locations in Britain...
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Top black at Wits resigns
The four-month "battle of Wits" is over following the resignation of William Malegapuru Makgoba, deputy vice chancellor. The University of Wi****ersrand's most senior black academic has accepted a...
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Asians swell university ranks
For more than five years Australia has encouraged universities to enroll more students from non-English-speaking homes. Institutions have devoted large sums to creating special programmes and the...
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Non-turnips have last laugh
Undergraduate publications are rarely sued for libel but editors of student magazines in Irish universities are likely to be much more careful in future. Their caution is understandable given an...