Letter: Togetherness
Natfhe congratulates David Triesman on his move to the Labour Party ("Merger of unions back on the table" and Leader, THES , July ). His departure as general secretary of the Association of...
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Letter: Nature or nurture's role in race
"Institutional racism is rife in British universities according to a sociologist" (News, THES, July 13) and in general terms he is correct, but I see no good reason to focus on the institutional...
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Letter: Excluded from web
The proliferation of web-based research-awareness services is certainly welcomed by busy academics struggling to keep up to date in their research fields ("Stay up to date the (e)asy way", THES ,...
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Letter: Ethics in science (1)
The door against which Herbert Arst and Mark Caddick are pushing is yielding rapidly ("Who's watching over science?", THES , July ). The Academy of Medical Sciences is consulting on ways to...
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Letter: Ethics in science (2)
Psychological science already has a watchdog to investigate complaints against authors for unethical behaviour. Anyone found by the nat-ional society to have faked data, stolen ideas or otherwise...
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Letter: Filling the gaps (1)
It is good to see the gender gap in academic pay getting attention (News, THES , July 20), but what about the gap between academics and others? In the dim mists of time, academic pay bore reasonable...
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Letter: Filling the gaps (2)
You do not report any figures on those training to teach at tertiary level ("Trainee teachers still overwhelmingly white and female," THES , July ). More than 40 per cent of students on our full-time...
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Letter: Games people play
The research assessment exercise has become a competitive game in which the better players (not necessarily the better researchers) win through blatant manipulation of data ("Staff lose out in wily...
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Leader: Beware of losing EU students
The number of undergraduates coming to the United Kingdom from other European countries has fallen by nearly a quarter since 1997. Cost will be one reason. The fall coincides with the introduction of...
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If you're this low, the only way is up
Surveys have placed South Africa last out of 40 for its maths and science provision, but through a distance-learning initiative Pretoria University is on a mission to turn the situation around. Karen...
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Acts of healing a nation
In the dark days of Milosevic's regime, four women in Belgrade created theatre amid the destruction. Noel Witts explores their bid to help Serbia regain its sense of humanity. Belgrade's sense of...
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Defenders of The Ring up in arms at myth in the making
The film of Tolkien's classic is courting controversy but creating a mythology, say Bill Welden and Jo Alida Wilcox. Once upon a time, in the rash boldness of his youth, J. R. R. Tolkien set out to...
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Looking for well-read men in blue
Has higher education crossed the thin blue line? Chris Bunting investigates the UK's first BSc in policing, while Liz Doig visits Bramshill's international training facility. Anthony Forde looks like...
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A-level maths not up to scratch The lack of geometry in the new A and AS-level mathematics courses means students no longer have a suitable foundation for university science and engineering courses,...