Equality knocks
I am not surprised that Derby was ranked second in the female/ethnic minorities league table ("Stopped by the unsound barrier", THES, April 14). When I arrived here in 1997, I was struck not only by...
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Equality knocks
Professorial figures reflect appointment decisions made ten or even 20 years ago. In my subject area, modern languages, there has been increasing parity of appointment of male and female professors...
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Bad vibes on visas
Your editorial "UK must offer a better experience to foreign students" (THES, April 7) places the fault squarely on universities with one exception, which you choose to call "the visa muddle". On a...
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Penalised part-timer
It is an irony that you published a letter ("Trojan horse needed", THES, April 7) on the day that the Part-time Employees (prevention of less favourable treatment) Regulations 2000 came into force....
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Free to talk or not
Tom Wakeford ("Concern for science", THES, March 24) says that the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council bans scientists it funds from "becoming involved in political controversy on...
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New tests, old results
IQ tests will not help get more working-class kids into university, argues Ken Richardson. Scholastic aptitude tests, used for more than 80 years in the United States to assess the ability of high-...
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Readers' reactions
Gail Kinman reported that 70 per cent of lecturers found their jobs stressful I can genuinely say that there are simply not enough hours in the day to do what I want to do. Trying to meet the demands...
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Readers' reactions
Two weeks ago, Dale Spender said institutions should forge global partnerships to deliver e-courses The need for universities to forge global partnerships with private business is essential in...
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Irish find room for racism
Racism is a significant problem in Northern Ireland, the most comprehensive independent study of local attitudes to race has discovered, writes Olga Wojtas. Researchers Paul Connolly and Michaela...
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World's tiniest vacuum
Now there really is nowhere for dirt to hide. Scientists have created the world's smallest cleaning tool to remove the slightest imperfection on a microchip or tidy up flaws in DNA structures, writes...
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Cutting edge
A team of scientists in Birmingham is using gene therapy to target cells and treat inherited disorders and killer diseases. Gene therapy is a new therapeutic approach that offers great promise for...
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Listening to the river
The Medical Research Council's Max Perutz Essay Prize 2000 attracted 39 entries from young scientists eager to explain their work to a wide audience.The competition, held to encourage and recognise...
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Spotty fish may hold man's key
Jane Marshall concludes our focus on France with reports on the genome project mapping project. A garden weed, a small spotted fish and the number 14 have something in common: they are vital...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work whose dystopian vision has enthralled generations of teenage readers: "A squat grey building of...
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When beauty is the beast
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