Unsporting attitude
Cannot Michael Rennie control the bile and acid caused by the arrival of upstart sport and exercise scientists in the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES , October 3)? There is something...
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History's not history
What is most surprising about the sorry saga at Harris Manchester College ("Oxford College in survival fight", THES , September 26) is the decision to cut history, a subject particularly attractive...
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Straight answers
I would have been much more impressed if Robert Spitzer's research ("Storm over gay cure", THES , October 3) had shown that psychiatric therapy could turn straight people gay. Angus Erskine Perthshire
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Not the bright option
Alison Wolf (Opinion, THES , September 19) accuses me of hypocrisy for claiming that tuition fees will enable dimmer members of the upper-middle classes to get to university and reduce the number of...
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Less of the lottery
The answer to all Steven Schwartz's consultation questions about admission to university or college must be yes ("Task force sparks fair access debate", THES , September 26). Pupils go to school to...
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Today's news
Economics prize makes third British Nobel in a week Clive Granger, a British economist working in the US, has won the 2003 Nobel economics prize. He will share the award with US academic Robert Engle...
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Next week
Fees free-for-all Subject-by-subject guide to what your university plans to charge in top-ups, and what it thinks about bursaries McCarthyism Is it stalking US and Israeli academics? Terrible beauty...
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Format for presenting results of deliberate GMO release into environment otherwise than for placing on the market
Brussels, 8 October 2003 Commission Decision of 29 September 2003 establishing pursuant to Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council a format for presenting the results of...
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Romano Prodi: Presentation of the October European Council in Brussels - A more prosperous and secure Europe, European Parliament Brussels, 8 October 2003
Brussels, 8 October 2003 Mr President, Honourable Members, On 16 and 17 October the European Council will get to grips with the questions of strengthening the area of freedom, security and justice...
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Mapping the way forward for farmyard genomics
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 Researchers and EU officials recently met to chew over ways in which genomics can improve food quality, disease control and biodiversity - subjects close to European hearts and...
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Do starfish and scampi suffer from trauma?
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 The preliminary findings of a recently completed EU project are helping to shed some light on the implications of prawn trawl fishing on stock depletion and ecological...
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European motorway association rejects plans for satellite road toll systems
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 The European association of motorway concessionaire companies and toll operators (ASECAP) has rejected a Commission proposal recommending a shift from short range communications...
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EU project analyses the relationship between national and European identities
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 In order to better understand the relationships that Europeans have with their own countries and with the EU, the Commission is funding a study of European and national...
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Scientific agreements with Israel and Switzerland near adoption
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 Association agreements allowing Swiss and Israeli researchers to participate in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) on an equal footing with their EU counterparts are ready and...
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Information day on the international mobility of researchers
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 The University of Rennes is organising a half day information session on the international mobility of researchers, to take place on October in Rennes. The topics to be covered...