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Optimism is like chocolate: it is very pleasant but in large quantities can cause indigestion. Jim Mills tells us that young, successful academics in their early careers are quintessentially...
Optimism is like chocolate: it is very pleasant but in large quantities can cause indigestion. Jim Mills tells us that young, successful academics in their early careers are quintessentially...
It won't do. We columnists are supposed to get a go each in sequence and in our proper place in The Times Higher . And now you've let Gary Day adopt the pseudonym of "Jim Mills" and write yet another...
I was delighted to see that my letter about Meg Barker had got the Left-liberal thought police snapping at my heels (Letters, January 14). I would like to make two points in response. The first...
In case my colleagues in the social policy community think I've jumped ship, may I reassure them that I am still professor of social policy (not public policy as stated in My Revolting Past, January...
Undergraduates can grab a share of a £10 billion market by exploiting their student status, reports Harriet Swain. Every month, 18-year-old Andrea receives £70 for a couple of hours, work. Last...
During her lifetime, Susan Sontag was feted and disparaged in equal measure but, writes Angela McRobbie, she always remained true to herself. How strange it is that, for one to whom the word feminism...
The Tories can win over academics who feel that Labour is dabbling in social engineering if they are willing to learn a thing or two from their sceptical forebears, says Kieron O'Hara. Let me begin...
Scots and Canadians share more than egalitarian ideals. They both have challenging neighbours, says Olga Wojtas. Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau memorably described his country's...
Aid workers hope their presence can end years of bloodshed in Aceh but the Indonesian military has other ideas, says Damien Kingsbury. As bodies are buried, debris is cleared and rebuilding gets...
Paris, 19 Jan 2005 This biannual publication provides a set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of the efforts undertaken by OECD Member countries and eight non-member economies (...
Brussels, 19 Jan 2005 Europe's Information Society Technologies (IST) research programme is a unique resource and should therefore be reinforced, according to the conclusions of an expert panel that...
Brussels, 19 Jan 2005 The EU has announced plans to encourage workers to create their own businesses in a bid to reach its goal of becoming the world's most competitive economy by 2010. Following the...
Brussels, 19 Jan 2005 Full text Introduction At the Barcelona meeting of the European Council in March 2002, Heads of State and Government agreed that research and technological development in the EU...
Paris, 19 Jan 2005 Some anticipated the 'collision of the century': the vast, drifting B15-A iceberg was apparently on collision course with the floating pier of ice known as the Drygalski ice tongue...
Paris, 19 Jan 2005 Today in Moscow, ESA Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain and the Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov signed an agreement for long-term cooperation and...