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Drinkable bark that lost its touch
The Fever Trail
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Troubled trail of a lost prize
Otto Hahn
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A deadly solution
Science in the Third Reich
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The man who named the sky
The Invention of Clouds
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Laurie Taylor column
Welcome to the UPEC - the University Pre-Emptive Committee. As you will recall, this committee was established last year with the aim of anticipating government initiatives in higher education and...
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Letter: Take my advice
Sir Michael Bichard's views on higher education appear to coincide with those of his former political masters ("Universities resisting efforts to hold them accountable, Bichard says", THES , January...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord
Let us extend Peter Williams's analogy between a university department and an orchestra ("Define 'quality', then we'll talk 'assurance'", THES , January 11). Imagine how the Quality Assurance Agency...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord 2
If violinists, when not performing, had to produce play lists to pass to a conductor, who had no time to perform but simply processed these documents because a team of critics was to visit in six...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord 3
If universities are the "concert halls of the intellect", further education colleges are its rock clubs. Quality in further education is about teaching and learning, and quality assurance is about...
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Letter: Quality refrain creates discord 4
Peter Williams says the debate on quality assurance consists of "mediocre cliches" and "low-quality non-thought". His article continues this ignoble tradition. We read about paymasters and pipers (...
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Letter: Myths of peace
Raymond Cohen's review of Edward Said's The End of the Peace Process recycles two myths about the Oslo agreement ("Books, THES , January 11). The first is that it was the rightwing government of...
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Letter: Federal factions 1
In the Cardiff-centric National Assembly, it is easy to forget the contribution that the four university colleges of Wales at Swansea, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Lampeter have made to Wales for more...
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Letter: Federal factions 2
Wales needs a federal university. The vision that established the University of Wales was strategically sound in 1893, and the issue of making the best use of inevitably limited resources to create a...
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Letter: Rankled by rankings
There are two major statistical problems in constructing league tables of research excellence using the research assessment exercise results ( THES , December 14). The first is in assigning numerical...