Laurie Taylor Column
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Leader: Next RAE is last chance saloon, so let's get it right
The latest proposals for assessing research should be an improvement on the existing system, although they are hardly as radical as Sir Gareth Roberts intended when he set out on his quest for reform...
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Leader: Industry and HE should be tailor-made allies
If a union launched industrial action on the basis of a 25 per cent turnout, it would be castigated (rightly) by employers. Yet that is the proportion of Confederation of British Industry members who...
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Iraq is no place for Japanese lessons
As troops struggle to restore order to Iraq, the country's future and its past hang in the balance. Chris Bunting hears why the White House's favourite tale of reconstruction is inappropriate One by...
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Elizabeth vs Stalin: contest of the cult of personality 2
On the 400th and 50th anniversaries of their deaths, we pit England's virgin queen against the USSR's father and find more than a shared love of dancing. Christopher Read considers Stalin's passion...
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A planet on the brink of oblivion
Technological advances improve life but they can also unleash vast destructive power. Martin Rees warns that the next 100 years could be a make-or-break time for humanity I 'm a cosmologist - my...
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Middle-class posturing or a victorious fight for real changes?
In 1970, Ivor Gaber and his fellow students occupied their university registry. Last week they met to reassess the events of the 'Warwick Spring' A toast to the student union building." A group of...
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One that did not get away
The discovery of a colossal squid in the Antarctic was a dream come true for marine biologist Kat Bolstad There was a moment of stunned silence as we saw the first image of the colossal squid...
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Elizabeth vs Stalin: contest of the cult of personality 1
On the 400th and 50th anniversaries of their deaths, we pit England's virgin queen against the USSR's father and find more than a shared love of dancing. Christopher Haigh shows how Elizabeth...
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War and its fallout threaten to obliterate remnants of the cradle of civilisation
As troops struggle to restore order to Iraq, the country's future and its past hang in the balance. Adrian Mourby reports on fears for Iraq's unique cultural heritage From his home in Cambridge,...
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Truth about wiggins?
Reviewer Henry Hardy laid into sloppy copy-editing at Oxford University Press (Books, THES, April 11) by citing a "glorious" footnote naming a book as Needs, Values, Wiggins, Truth . "What are...
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Push for policy change
The gist of Phil Baty's article on National Union of Students funding policy ("NUS left forces a U-turn on grants", THES , April 4) is spot on, but he blurs an important detail. When Labour Students...
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Blotted copybook
The Rorschach inkblot test has not been discredited as you report ("This test 'makes everyone look sick'", THES , April 4). Most reviews are favourable. Critical ones have resulted in further...
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Copyright catch-up
Iain Stevenson (Letters, THES , April 11) describes the claim that mid-20th century authors may never go out of copyright as "ridiculous", but US corporations are already lobbying for a further...
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Banking on crop lines
David Wood, in his "Why I believe gene banks are a waste of money" on the nature and importance of conserving the diversity of our crops ( THES , March 14), argues that the Global Conservation Trust...