Letter: a lukewarm lobby (2)
Universities UK is a misnomer (Leader, THES , December 1). Like its predecessor, the vice-chancellors committee remains, as John Griffith observed in 1989, no more than a collection of individuals...
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Letter: Oxford's management malaise
John Kay ("So we agree not to agree", THES , November 24), turns a timely and usefully harsh and penetrating spotlight on the governance of Oxford University, illustrating that the institution's...
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Letter: goodwill talking
I was interested by Nina Lemmens's letter ( THES , December 1), in which she mentions the new strategy of the British Council in Germany and how this affects academic exchange programmes run in...
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Letter: Burmese daze
As a School of Oriental and African Studies PhD student conducting research on Burma, I read your December 1 issue with interest. Phil Baty's article ("Scholar attacked for links to junta", about the...
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Soapbox: a crushing workload
Bureaucracy, home and child care are damaging women's career prospects, says Susan Bassnett. It is official: I work 57.5 hours a week. After taking part in the government's transparency review, which...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
The Afternoon Play: The Starving Girl of Llanfihangel (2.15 R4). An actual event from 19th-century Welsh history dramatised by Mary Cooper. Russia: Gold Domes, Black Earth (8.30 World Service,...
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Higher Channels
It's not just the Elgin Marbles. Other British Museum artefacts, such as its Benin bronzes, which Nigeria would like back, are also under dispute. And what about the Native American pieces in Glasgow...
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A meeting of minds is the road to peace
As bullets fly over Gaza, academics at Cambridge's Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations are focusing on spreading a message of religious tolerance. Anne Sebba reports. Prince Hassan of Jordan may...
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In the EU, it's who you know that counts
Tony Blair might be calling for closer ties with Europe, but if British universities want to benefit from EU funding, they'd do well to negotiate from the inside, reports Tony Tysome The lead-up to...
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A history of rice and spice, and all things nice
Other countries may deride Britain's fish-and-chips cuisine, but the nation boasts a rich culinary heritage dating back to the Norman conquests. Colin Spencer reports. Modern British cooking tends to...
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To excel, simply remove red tape
If British universities want to compete with the US they should overhaul their administrative practices, free academics from paperwork and abandon the honours system, argues Jeffrey Henderson. Why is...
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Latest international news
There's less lean in Pisa's tower Pisa's leaning tower now has the same angle of tilt it had in 1810, experts announced yesterday in Italy. Michele Jamiolkowski, professor...
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Latest UK news
Newby to be Hefce chief Sir Howard Newby, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton, has been appointed chief executive of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England. Sir Howard...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Supersonic aircraft could fly faster and farther at less cost with the simple addition of small flaps to jet engine inlet ducts, say researchers at the University of Illinois. A frog-...
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