Leader: Sugared pill still hard to swallow
Time will tell whether the student-support package announced with this week's higher education bill is sufficient to win over enough Labour "rebels". None of them has done any rebelling yet...
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Leader: A union fit for purpose?
The debacle over the constitution for an enlarged European Union has faded from the headlines, and enthusiasm for the concept has dwindled. For higher education, however, 2004 is the year the Bologna...
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Leader: Sugared pill still hard to swallow
Time will tell whether the student-support package announced with this week's higher education bill is sufficient to win over enough Labour "rebels". None of them has done any rebelling yet...
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Leader: A union fit for purpose?
The debacle over the constitution for an enlarged European Union has faded from the headlines, and enthusiasm for the concept has dwindled. For higher education, however, 2004 is the year the Bologna...
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'Open access' for the rich only
The claim that "open-access" journals will replace the traditional subscription model and open up access to research is wrong ("Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas", THES , January 2). Despite...
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'Open access' for the rich only
The article "Call to put research free on websites" ( THES , Dec 19/26) is welcome, but it repeated the most frequent misunderstanding of open-access self-archiving - a persistent error that keeps...
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Patronising the public
While I agree with Lord Winston's message to open an informed dialogue between scientists and the public ("The public pay, so give them their say", THES , January 2), the examples he chooses to...
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Patronising the public
Bill Durodié is right to say there is little scientific evidence to indicate that the MMR vaccine causes autism (Letters, THES , January 2). But most parents are not scientists with specialist...
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Trouble at the top?
So the University of Luton plans to make a further 50 lecturers redundant ("Redundancy drive aims to free up cash at Luton", THES , January 2). This means that it will have shed a total of nearly 200...
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Burning not borscht
Brendan Simms writes in his review of A Century of Genocide that genocide "is as authentically European as croissants, borscht or dumplings" (Books, THES , January 2). He cannot be accused of...
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World-class snobs
Many of us across the university sector feel that the recent extensive exposure given to the Russell Group is misguided and, frankly, boring. This self-selecting lobby of so-called "top" universities...
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(Dis)honour 1
I note the list of those in higher education who received New Year gongs, and your shortlist of those who perhaps should have but did not (News, THES , January 2). Where, however, was the list of...
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(Dis)honour 2
Can you please reassure your readers that the only reason for the omission of my name and photograph from the list you published last week of those in higher education whose names were omitted from...
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Sexual anxieties
Angela McRobbie (Features, THES , January 2) asks what kind of politics feminism can offer to pre-teens and young women in a culture awash with pornography. As sexual identities proliferate and we...
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Fair play over pay
Peter Elford gives a negative view of the pay and reward structure at the University of Nottingham (Letters, THES , December 12). The university is implementing a reward strategy, that, in line with...