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Inspector Gadget's green fingers and politics
The Forest Farms of Kandy and Other Gardens of Complete Design
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Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor Subject : New Year Message to all Academic Staff As we stand on the brink of another new year, the fourth year in which I have been at the tiller of the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor Subject : New Year Message to all Academic Staff As we stand on the brink of another new year, the fourth year in which I have been at the tiller of the...
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Leader: A year of living dangerously
No forward look to a new year concludes that it will be boring or insignificant, but 2004 will surely be remembered as a milestone for higher education. Like top-up fees or loathe them, the decisions...
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Leader: Where Beagles dare...
On Christmas Day, 16 million people visited the Beagle 2 website, making the non-appearance of the UK's Mars lander more popular than the final episode of Only Fools and Horses . Beagle 2 's apparent...
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Leader: A year of living dangerously
No forward look to a new year concludes that it will be boring or insignificant, but 2004 will surely be remembered as a milestone for higher education. Like top-up fees or loathe them, the decisions...
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Leader: Where Beagles dare...
On Christmas Day, 16 million people visited the Beagle 2 website, making the non-appearance of the UK's Mars lander more popular than the final episode of Only Fools and Horses . Beagle 2 's apparent...
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Teaching-led colleges hit back 1
The government's message that teaching is an appropriate raison d'etre for the university title depends crucially on the removal of the research degree-awarding powers requirement ("Legal fear over...
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Teaching-led colleges hit back 2
UUK and others, most notably the Association of University Teachers, continue to use the phrase "teaching only" to describe institutions set to benefit from the government's enlightened policy on the...
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Without honours 1
Perhaps Colin Blakemore should take on board the lesson to be gleaned from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy - that those who expect honours don't deserve them ("Prince stands accused in honours...
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Without honours 2
When an academic with such a distinguished career as Colin Blakemore complains that he ought to have been given a knighthood, it serves only to deepen the suspicions of many who are sceptical of the...
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Work and happiness
Andrew Oswald appears to think that his proposal to conduct controlled experiments on working life and happiness is a novel one ("Give all your staff a real bonus - a No-Work Wednesday", THES ,...
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Give extra study time
Universities are dedicated to the "last-carriage principle", which states that in any railway accident the last carriage comes off worst, irrespective of the length of the train ("Luton makes it...
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MMR and autism
Andy Alaszewski is wrong to suggest that the connection between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism is one of "a low probability with a high consequence" ("When fear becomes another...