Wrong umbilical chord
Jennie Bristow portrays university students as people who have to pass "a couple of relatively minor exams at the end of the year" (try telling that to all those students facing their finals) and...
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Scots at the controls
I read with considerable surprise an article in the Scottish Educational Journal falsely alleging that at the Trades Union Congress I had attacked the role of a Scottish parliament in relation to...
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HERA for equality
I WAS saddened to read Opinion (THES, October 11) as it gave a biased and ill-informed impression of the COMCON project. The project was initiated in 1993 by a group of personnel directors and with...
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Working for oneself
David Albury's thoughts on the possible growth of self-employed scholars ("End of tenure, start of tender", THES, October 11) were very interesting. Having been head-hunted as a senior lecturer in a...
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Scientists true start
I was shocked by Keith Ward's reply to Richard Dawkins and Peter Atkins (THES, October 11) because of his illegitimate mixing up of religion and "the humanities". Ward has created the impression that...
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Write on
Reviewing books on writing systems (THES, October 18), Oliver Moore makes the remarkable claim that "no one has yet invented a purely written language". John Wilkins invented one as long ago as 1668...
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Oxford jackpot
Oxford University's research income has topped Pounds 100 million for the first time, it was revealed this week. Overall research income was Pounds 104.2 million for 1995/96, an increase of 10.4 per...
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Swansea opening
Departments of economics, history and politics at the University of Wales, Swansea, are being rehoused in a new building this term, following the official opening of the Pounds 3.5 million North Arts...
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Accountancy action
Nearly half of the members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales think there should be more on-the-job assessment of trainees working towards qualified status, a MORI poll...
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New scale please
The four-point scale for quality assessment in Scotland should be replaced by an overall judgement of "quality approved" or "quality not approved," a review group of the Scottish 糖心Vlog...
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Stitched up
(Photograph) - Secretary of state for Scotland Michael Forsyth at the Scottish College of Textiles' new library with a woven portrait of himself made using the college's Scotweave computer program.
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Reverend slips up on clerical errors
A Durham University college principal whose work permit application contained misleading information will be allowed to stay in this country. But investigations are continuing over how the...
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Speaking Volumes: The Parisian Sansculottes and the French Revolution
Deian Hopkin on Albert Soboul's The Parisian Sansculottes and the French Revolution . In retrospect, the rattling 19th-century garret high above Cardigan Bay seemed the perfect setting for listening...
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Art criticism by sound bite
The 20th Century Art Book
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Be equal, be healthy
Unhealthy Societies