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The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an English novel by a man who once commanded a rocket ship: "He was struggling in every direction, he...
Spin Dynamics
Dear Mr/Ms/Doctor/Professor. Thank you for returning your application form for the Media and Cultural Studies Conference to be held at the University of Poppleton from March 25-. A single room (R2365...
The second-class status of vocational education will not be changed by more half-hearted tinkering as recommended in the green paper on 14-19 re-organisation ("New diploma flags up Morris revamp",...
Sir Howard Newby, in evidence to the Public Accounts Committee, has rightly drawn attention to the problem of students having studied different topics in their mathematics A level ("First-years need...
Roy Harris writes in his review of Ray Jackendoff's The Foundations of Language (Books, THES , February 15) that "the generativist horse never bolted: it was found dead in its stall". I agree with...
Are departments that obtained a 5 rating the "real losers" of the 2001 research assessment exercise ("A cloud in blue skies", THES , February 8)? My department received a 1 in the 1992 RAE and a 2 in...
My school entered the RAE in 1992 unprepared for and untutored in the strategies needed to create a strong research base. It gained a 2. Over the next four years we built an infrastructure and gained...
The bias in favour of large departments by the RAE and the funding council excessively penalises top-flight researchers in the smaller departments. This will eliminate competition and deprive the UK...
Roger Brown is right to highlight the way the RAE has weakened rather than strengthened the links between research and teaching ("One half of a double act", THES , February 15). A number of...
You are wrong to imply ("No power to halt BNP recruiters on campus", THES , February 15) that the British National Party is recruiting students at the University of Greenwich. We have no evidence...
I was astonished to read a letter criticising my cartoon for containing a "negative racial stereotype" and "disparaging indigenous art as crude and childlike". The joke was that an indigenous...