Bristle over brush-off
Apropos "John Smith's" efforts to break open the closed old-boy network in research fund application reviewing (THES, November 14) why not go the whole hog with "reform" and apply the same "...
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Copycats and fat cats
We are partners with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society in managing the Copyright Licensing Agency. ALCS's claim that publishers "took all the money" from journal photocopying (THES,...
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Post-traumatic debate disorder
There has been heated debate surrounding routine psychological help for individuals exposed to traumatic events and the existence of post-traumatic stress disorder ("The stress dissident", THES,...
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Oxbridge umbrage
Why should you suppose that when I say that there ought to be more universities properly funded to teach the bright people Oxbridge cannot squeeze in, as well as those who do not apply, I really mean...
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Read 'em and weep
Harriet Swain's puff for the new British Library (THES, November 21) is misleading. She says "initial reaction to the interior has been positive", but quotes negative reactions from David Mellor and...
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Exports built on goodwill
WHAT do an Egyptian PhD, a Greek MBA, a Bulgarian MSc and a Singaporean postgraduate in engineering have in common? They are just a few of the many postgraduates who have taken part in the British...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Waterloo International 8 am. I do not know why I do this to myself (and my family). I have left a sick son in London, a stack of marking in Hull, along with piles of paper for my long-...
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Wanted: can-doers in the think tanks
ONLY six months ago, "Mr Blair and the intellectuals" was almost as regular a fallback in dinner party conversations among British university social scientists as were house prices and the unrelieved...
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Research career a minority sport
The majority of contract researchers want to continue in academic research, but their ambitions are likely to be frustrated by the lack of available posts, a pioneering survey has found. Little is...
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Active brain combats gloom
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists PETER Coleman is an ardent supporter of lifelong learning, but his view of it is broader than...
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Eco calls for live-in colleges
Umberto Eco has suggested that Italy's state university system would benefit from the establishment of live-in colleges along the lines of those in Britain. "But it is not a question of adopting...
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Gag on Asia haze scaremongers
Academics in Malaysia are only barred from publicising their findings on the health effects of the haze and not on other sensitive issues, said education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. His...
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Travel to improve the lingo
German students are failing the foreign languages test, according to a survey carried out for the education ministry. Although 85 per cent of students claim to have some knowledge of English, only...
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Cash aid for quake repairs
The Italian university ministry has announced that billion lire (Pounds 10 million) will be paid out immediately to repair the damage to universities in Umbria and Marche during the massive...
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Student voucher funding irks university leaders
Australian vice chancellors last week rejected a key proposal in the West report on the future of higher education that called for funding universities through student grants or scholarships. The...