First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a zoologist who kept a famous zoo: "July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that...
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The wild ways of a dutiful dynast
White Rajah
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Laurie Taylor column
FACULTY NOTICEBOARD PLAGIARISM COMMITTEE Please note that the Plagiarism Committee will meet next Thursday afternoon in the PhotoCopying Annexe. The following students should attend at the designated...
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Alan Ryan
Charles Clarke could learn a lesson about the purpose of universities from US institutions that have religious affiliations. To the agnostic outsider, the religiosity of the US comes as a shock....
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Leader: Seven win glory but their prize will be tarnished
Identifying seven higher education colleges as candidates for university status is not quite on the scale of the polytechnics' elevation in 1992, but it was still bound to create a stir. Inevitably,...
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Leader: Unions should know not to tangle with BNP
Higher education unions might have known better than to get themselves entangled in the web spun by the British National Party. Precisely the same issues surrounded student members of the National...
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Reviving the ghost of the wildwood
Hidden in the Yorkshire landscape where the M1 and M62 motorways cross lurks the ghost of the Outwood, the ancient manorial forest of Wakefield, writes John Rodwell. Marked on the ground now only in...
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Biological mazes hide cure for cancer
The man who found the key to the cell cycle that drives life now wonders what directs it. Tim Hunt recounts his achievements and looks ahead to the future In biology, the questions look hard, but...
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Little small talk goes a long, long way
With research cash increasingly targeted at interdiscipIinary study and cutting-edge science becoming ever-more complex, the aphorism 'it's not what you know but who you know' has never been more apt...
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Is it right to refuse to teach a racist?
Natfhe's belief that academics should not have to teach BNP members raises the question of whether political correctness is curtailing freedom of speech. Matthew Baker reports In a Salford University...
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It wasn't only babies who hit the bottle in medieval Europe
Women's boozing might explain the high levels of child mortality that blighted the continent, argues Lynn Martin Growing up in late medieval Europe was not easy. Historical demographers have...
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In the Green Man's shadow
Britain's ancient woods are living time capsules of centuries of human exploitation of the environment. How best can we preserve them, asks Ian Rotherham Our complex and dynamic ancient woods are a...
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UK shuns Europe at its own risk
Juliet Lodge understates the UK level of ignorance of, and lack of commitment to, a European higher education area in her analysis of the government white paper (Opinion, THES, May 30). A briefing...
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Apocalyptic visions 1
The report "RAE reform to shut out one in three" ( THES, May 30) presents an apocalyptic vision and names me as its creator. It lists institutions that allegedly would no longer receive research...
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Apocalyptic visions
It is good that Sir Gareth Roberts' research quality assessment is designed to take the element of gambling out of submissions. But it seems inevitable that some departments will lose research money...