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Peter Williams was right to question UK universities' accreditation of small institutions overseas ("QAA: accreditation 'risky'" THES , August 1). My university has reduced its overseas franchise...
Peter Williams was right to question UK universities' accreditation of small institutions overseas ("QAA: accreditation 'risky'" THES , August 1). My university has reduced its overseas franchise...
You claim that the University of Manchester will be the UK's biggest university, with an estimated 34,000 students ("Man united hits home straight", THES , August 1) In Anchorage, they upset visiting...
So vice-chancellors have been "seeking to engineer an industrial dispute" ("V-cs accused of stalling on pay offer", THES , July 18). In view of this, and many similar misdemeanours, perhaps a name...
In reviewing The Character of Cats (Books, THES , August 1), Andrew Kitchener claims that "burying of faeces is a clever ploy to ingratiate cats to us". Much depends on how you define us and your...
While sympathetic to Catherine Belsey's desire to "end the apartheid" between English and cultural studies (Why I, THES , July 18), a more pressing issue might be to discover what fuels it. As a...
As regards Jonathan Bate's remarks about the role of facts in literary studies ("Navigate the circus of fancy with fact", THES , August 1), as a teacher of English I always believed ("theory"...
According to the ÌÇÐÄVlog Office, new fees for visa extensions will save the UK taxpayer £90 million a year, £ million of which will be from students ("Fury over visa extension fee", THES , July 18)....
Tony Blair may have shown historic qualities of leadership during the Iraq crisis comparable with Bismarck in the 1860s ("Blood, iron and creative havoc", THES , July 25). But Blair would do well to...
Your arrest photo of Theodore Kaczynski, the "Unabomber", ( THES , August 1) puzzled me, until, studying the sullen eyes, beard and bad hair, I realised he resembled two-thirds of the male academics...
It is insulting to imply, as Susan Segal-Horn does, that Open University associate lecturers are drudges who do academic chores while the "central" academics get on with groundbreaking scholarship (...
Paris, 06 Aug 2003 Multiple sensors on ESA's Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall of smoke above tropical Borneo and detect fire hotspots – known to add millions...
Brussels, 06 Aug 2003 The amount of galactic dust entering the solar system is three times higher than during the 1990s, according to a joint ESA/NASA experiment. Scientists believe that the Sun...
Brussels, 06 Aug 2003 In an interview for the CORDIS Greek Member State service, Mario Campolargo, Head of Unit for Research Infrastructures in the Commission's Information Society Directorate...
Brussels, 06 Aug 2003 Given recent achievements in genomic sequencing, and the potential benefits to society that such information offers, scientists and politicians alike are becoming more aware...
Brussels, 06 Aug 2003 The international forum on MicroNano integration, MINIT, will take place in Potsdam, Germany, on 3 and 4 December. The forum will address both micro- and nanotechnologies, with...