U21 pools brains to take on markets
The 16 members of Universitas 21 have decided to exploit their collective intellectual property assets on the world market by incorporating their association. The two-year-old global network of...
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Thai jobless out softselling politics
The Thai government is hiring 20,000 jobless graduates and diploma holders to teach communities about a new national constitution designed to combat political corruption. The 687 million baht (Pounds...
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Individualism becomes the first casualty of war
Torn between his ethnic and academic identities, Dejan Djokic finds the latter, the identity of an individual, must prevail Academics, like everyone else, are affected by wars. The wars in the former...
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Esa does it best away from political sphere
Next week, Europe's space ministers will meet in Brussels to decide on the next generation of projects for the European Space Agency. They will seek to build on a remarkable record of success and...
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Age-old problem
Kate Purcell's research uncovered the appalling level of discrimination practised against older candidates ("Bright young things only need apply", THES, April 9). Universities are one of the biggest...
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Age-old problem
The ageism that leads UK employers to shun mature students ("Unwanted oldies", THES, April 9) is deplorable. It is bad for, and reflects badly on, employers. It deprives them of the chance to plumb...
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Seven help us!
Henry Ellington's heptalogue of "golden rules" ("Teaching with confidence", THES, April 30) made my heart sink and convinced me that initiatives such as his are part of the problem, not of its...
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Part-time shift
Your article "Younger students opt to go part time" (THES, April 30) reflects what we are finding. Of inquiries for entry to our part-time LLB for 1998-99, 24 per cent were from under 25s and, of...
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Language of closure
As ex-members of the School of English Language Education at Thames Valley University, we are appalled at its possible demise. Its research record in the area of applied linguistics is second to none...
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Errors with trials
Daniel Dennett's faith in the power of evolution goes too far ("Mind over matter", THES, April 30). In an article on "making mistakes" in How Things Are, he states his view even more explicitly: "...
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Higher spenders
I'm puzzled by one feature of your league tables (THES, April 23). You have Cambridge and Oxford well down on the list on expenditure on facilities, but seem not to have noticed that they are...
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Internal muddle of external role
The Association of University Teachers' complaint about payment for external examiners serves no one if, as appears from your report, it presents a disingenuous case bordering on dishonesty ("...
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Include us, don't make us over
Do not 'perfect' disabled people out of existence, just remove barriers, says Mike Oliver (right) As we approach the millennium, "inclusion" and "exclusion" are increasingly being used as a...
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Pay the going rate
Andrew Oswald will bet a nice lunch that academics will receive market-led wages within ten years My father used to drive to work in an old Rolls-Royce. The house looked out on a pretty part of the...
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University joins dollar-rich elite
One of five organisations around the world accredited last month to register domain names on the internet is the University of Melbourne's commercial information technology offshoot, Melbourne IT....