In brief 1
Laurie Taylor is wrong to call the publication of Alison Wolf's Does Education Matter? a "wholly original" event. Duke Maskell and Ian Robinson open their The New Idea of a University (2001) by...
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In brief 2
Contract research staff are not the only university employees to benefit from the removal of fixed-term contracts ("Surrey contract staff win job security", THES, December 6). Loughborough University...
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In brief 3
Thames Water's graduate recruitment manager reportedly slates an applicant for saying "I was really keen to work for BP but I didn't get through so I applied to you" and another who said his...
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Faith simply portrayed
The front-page headline "Mary Warnock looks for God in a racy text" with a stained-glass image of the patriarch himself, inappropriately signalled your religious studies book reviews (THES, December...
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Conscious objector
Why did Susan Greenfield agree to review David Lodge's Consciousness and the Novel when she is self-confessedly not a literary expert ("Minds meet on a two-way street", THES, December 6)? Greenfield'...
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AUT is all for fairness
I was surprised that the Higher Education Funding Council for England accepts the excuses from some higher education institutions that the Association of University Teachers is delaying the use of...
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Merry Christmas
The latest news service is taking a break over the festive period and will resume on 2 January 2003.
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EU innovation performance still needs improving, but there are encouraging signs for the future
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 The 2002 European Innovation Scoreboard, published today by the European Commission, reveals that the EU's innovation performance is still lagging behind the US and Japan,...
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Integral's first look at the gamma-ray Universe
Paris, 18 Dec 2002 INFO 10-2002. ESA's gamma-ray satellite, Integral, is fully operational. Today Integral's first ground-breaking images of the high-energy Universe were presented in Paris, France....
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FP6 1st Call and IST information day
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 UKISHELP is organising a free IST information day, which will take place in London on 11 February 2003. UKISHELP is a DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) funded service for...
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Busquin calls for improved working environment for researchers in Europe
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has announced his intention to urge fellow Commissioners, in June 2003, to adopt a communication on the career of researchers in Europe...
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Successful Ariane launch
Paris, 18 Dec 2002 Just after midnight an Ariane 4 soared into the sky above Kourou in French Guiana to place a new telecommunications satellite into orbit. This is the 113th successful Ariane 4...
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No 3G boom for at least five years, says Liikanen
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society, has said that he believes there will be no boom in the third generation mobile market before 2008....
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Thematic FP6 information days, Switzerland
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 Euresearch, the Swiss information network for the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), is organising a series of thematic information days in Olten, Switzerland. The schedule for...
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MEP calls for greater role for women and JRC in EU research
Brussels, 18 Dec 2002 The European Parliament adopted two resolutions on research and technological development on 17 December containing calls for further participation by women in EU research...