Electronic voyage to the bottom of the sea
ABERDEEN University scientists, the world leaders in deep-sea research, are to investigate fish stocks west of Shetland as part of a Pounds 2.6 million European Union marine research programme. The...
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Virtual surveying cuts risk of costly mistakes
A VIRTUAL measuring system developed by Oxford University engineers will help avoid expensive mistakes in house extensions and renovations. Conventional tapes and rules can be replaced by using the...
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Women accountants care about human costs
MALE and female number-crunchers may deal differently with ethical dilemmas - a fact which present accounting regulations fail to recognise. An international study of auditors by researchers at the...
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Lucky election winners face cash hangover
In the run-up to the election Huw Richards analyses the higher education Conventional political wisdom holds that there are few votes to be won in higher education, but a fair number to be lost. And...
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The Answers
In the run-up to the election Huw Richards analyses the higher education Dearing was appointed, in tacit recognition that both main parties might have more to lose than gain, with the intention of...
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Led by the nose into clone cuckoo land
The practical impact of the cloning of Dolly the sheep on the commercial cloning and genetic engineering of farm animals has barely been mentioned in the flood of words unleashed by the possibility...
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In not such good company
WHATEVER the outcome of the election, the smart money is on an outbreak of new universities in the next few years. Some will come from the ranks of today's colleges of education, including deserving...
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Dearing must not be a smokescreen
Less than a week after the May Day general election was announced, the first instances are already being reported of politicians citing the Dearing inquiry as the reason why it is terribly difficult...
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Publish and be praised
Universities should be more open and accountable, say researchers on two separate projects It is virtually impossible to glean even the faintest understanding of British universities' contributions...
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Accountancy called to book in quest for value
The traditional academic values of British universities are widely seen to be under threat from commercialism and misplaced business management methods. At least, this is what is often claimed. Yet a...
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Learn from us now
We were delighted to see that Gareth Williams and colleagues at the Institute of Education have endorsed a national accreditation scheme for higher education teachers (THES, February 28). The Staff...
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Specialist treatment
Regarding the total quality assessment report on politics and international relations at the University of St Andrews (THES, March 7), there are plenty of other IR specialists in Scotland; in our TQA...
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Death before expense
Lucy Neville-Rolfe, director of the cabinet office deregulation unit, cautions against "expensive" over-regulation in response to crises or disasters (THES, March 14). Yet again a convenient...
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Death before expense
Your article on the Royal Society's risk meeting (THES, March 14) quoted Ragnar Lofstedt as saying that communication between social scientists and engineers or natural scientists is effectively...
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Daft draft notions
The report (THES, February 21) on the misleading and erroneous views attributed to Jacqueline McGlade and her colleagues on the draft European Union directive on the legal protection of...