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  1. No open minds allowed

    Academic experts are being kicked off US government advisory committees to make room for industrial consultants, rightwing radicals and Christian fundamentalists. Stephen Phillips reports In January...

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  2. No competition in research game 1

    It is always useful to identify the problem before deciding the optimal solution and, while Sir Gareth Roberts and the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England ("Revamped RAE to start a year...

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  3. No competition in research game 2

    The board of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England has not approved a new research assessment method nor a new research assessment exercise timetable as you report. It received Sir Gareth...

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  4. Graduate job shop

    Simon Hamm (Soapbox, THES, April 11) suggests that "graduate recruitment is a game of trial and error". In my experience, graduate recruitment is a professional business and recruiters work hard to...

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  5. Status of scientists

    We support the president of the UK Biosciences Federation, Colin Blakemore, in his efforts to ensure it achieves a status comparable to that of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of...

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  6. Raising the hurdles

    Extra hurdles that the unions will face in arguing for salary rises ("Pay drive faces local hurdles", THES, April 18) include the increases in insurance, national insurance costs and employer...

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  7. No rope to tie hands

    In the story about the restructuring of Open University courses, you quote an OU spokeswoman saying: "We have been required by the Quality Assurance Agency to bring our standards up to everyone else...

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  8. Leave Kafka out of law

    On trial for murder, in the Coen brothers' film The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton hires a defence lawyer who tries to cast doubt on the case by invoking the uncertainty principle of...

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  9. CUC got there first

    How "unprecedented" is the strategic alliance between further and higher education in Cumbria? Have the project's protaganists forgotten the Combined Universities in Cornwall ("Cumbrian alliance to...

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  10. Tangled in red tape?

    Margaret Hodge seems oblivious to the irony of her anti-bureaucracy drive ("Hodge promises check on red tape", THES, April 18). Checks involve a review group, a gatekeeper, an impact assessment and...

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  11. Tragedy repeated

    During the 1956 Suez crisis, Sir Pierson Dixon, then UK permanent representative at the United Nations, told the Eden government: "It is quite out of the question to extract from the Security Council...

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  12. Oldest DNA found preserved in Siberian permafrost

    Brussels, 23 Apr 2003 Danish scientists have discovered the oldest DNA to date in the permafrost of northeast Siberia. A team of scientists from the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen drilled cores...

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  13. New mailbox for queries on FP6 new instruments

    Brussels, 23 Apr 2003 The European Commission's Research DG has launched a mailbox for questions concerning the new instruments of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The new instruments, introduced...

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  15. Baby teeth offer alternative source of stem cells

    Brussels, 23 Apr 2003 Researchers in the US have discovered that baby teeth could provide an important source of stem cells that are more adaptable than adult stem cells and which overcome the...

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