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International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
From: The conference organiser Dear attendee I acknowledge receipt of your cheque for attendance and accommodation at this year's Conference of the British Association of Experimental Animal...
When John McKenzie took over the chairmanship of Leeds United, there was mild amusement that a professor whose last management responsibility was for a collection of art colleges had landed one of...
Administrators have been trying for decades to construct a coherent system of further education in England and to link it as seamlessly as possible to schools and universities. Most have been...
To study humanity's relationship with nature, one man spent a year alone on a tiny, desolate island. Philip Fine reports For more than a year, the stoutly built wooden shelter had provided Bob Kull's...
The British concept of public duty is being undermined by the erosion of national loyalty and the elevation of individual rights, argues Roger Scruton Those of us brought up in postwar Britain have...
Transplant pioneer Sir Roy Calne found painting his patients helped him to understand them and, writes Karen Gold, taught him something about himself. "The nice thing about sculpture," says Sir Roy...
A project to wire up an entire plate of the Earth's crust with a grid of seabed observatories is set to usher in a new era in understanding the inner workings of our planet, says Geoff Watts....
Academic experts are being kicked off US government advisory committees to make room for industrial consultants, rightwing radicals and Christian fundamentalists. Stephen Phillips reports In January...
It is always useful to identify the problem before deciding the optimal solution and, while Sir Gareth Roberts and the Higher Education Funding Council for England ("Revamped RAE to start a year...
The board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has not approved a new research assessment method nor a new research assessment exercise timetable as you report. It received Sir Gareth...
Simon Hamm (Soapbox, THES, April 11) suggests that "graduate recruitment is a game of trial and error". In my experience, graduate recruitment is a professional business and recruiters work hard to...
We support the president of the UK Biosciences Federation, Colin Blakemore, in his efforts to ensure it achieves a status comparable to that of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of...
Extra hurdles that the unions will face in arguing for salary rises ("Pay drive faces local hurdles", THES, April 18) include the increases in insurance, national insurance costs and employer...