Captains of study ready to welcome all on board
At the EU summit, student mobility moved from pious hope to practical initiative, says Viviane Reding. Neither the words "lucid" nor "simple" spring to the mind of anyone trying to unravel the...
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Letters: IT liberators(2)
How refreshing to read a criticism of university bureaucracy that mentioned neither the research assessment exercise nor the Quality Assurance Agency. Andrew Fisher Research support Hull University
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Cyborg off his Christmas tree
Kevin Warwick distorts the image of artificial intelligence, say Simon Colton and the committee of the UK's biggest AI society. It often seems as if we cannot win in artificial intelligence. On the...
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Poisonous exercises
A dartboard and a map could do better than the RAE in targeting excellence, says Martin Cohen. The fifth research assessment exercise is just getting under way. The last exercise cost £.3 million and...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ...Catherine Belsey argued that exam classifications were old-fashioned. Although I can relate to some of Catherine Belsey's article, much of it strikes me as odd. I have...
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Why I believe the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is best done optically
As there are 200 billion stars in our galaxy and more galaxies than stars, I cannot believe that we are the only intelligent life form in the universe. Whether we can make contact is another matter...
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Make plans on the hoof
Whether it is GM food or the office Christmas party, the precautionary principle sounds like a rational approach. But Gary Comstock, professor and cowboy, finds that things are not that simple. As a...
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Science's top media stars of 2000
They are the celebrities of science, ambassadors of the laboratory held up by the media as intellectual authorities of our time. Where once there was Magnus Pike and Patrick Moore, there is now a...
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Elusive factors in the equation consign people to the dead end
Even the most talented students suffer under the formula at the heart of education, says David Karliner. An insoluble equation? Resource + student number = finite successful student outcome. 1986....
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Law of the streets
Both the homeless and legal students are set to benefit over Christmas from a free advice initiative. Claire Sanders reports. When it was first suggested that students from the College of Law run...
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Poisoning data withheld
A leading geologist has accused a Natural Environment Research Council centre of withholding data about mass arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. The accusation comes in the week after the NERC launched...
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Concern at MASN target increase
Final figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show that 339,747 students accepted places at United Kingdom universities in September - a 1.5 per cent increase on last year. The...
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OU head leaves for challenge of Unesco's education effort
Open University vice-chancellor Sir John Daniel is to become assistant director general of Unesco, the United Nations' educational and cultural organisation, in Paris. Sir John said he was looking...
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Christmas crossword
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Looking at dwarfs and cool red giants
Henry Norris Russell