SOSIG on a roll
The Social Science Information Gateway based at the University of Bristol is expanding its service from August 1 to include use of personal user profiles and more information partnerships. The...
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Oz campaigner
The trAce Online Writing Community based at Nottingham Trent University has appointed ߣߣÊÓƵn author Bernard Cohen to help the campaign against literary technophobia. Mr Cohen has swapped the Blue...
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SET and match
A resource website has been launched by Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiTEC), a Department of Trade and Industry and European-funded organisation based at Sheffield Hallam University...
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BCS nets new head
The British Computer Society has appointed David Hartley president. Dr Hartley, a chartered engineer and former chief executive of UKERNA, was a key adviser in the establishment of the Joint Network...
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P45 proof
A virtual network for MBAs all over Europe has been set up in Ireland with EU funding. MBA Global Network members enjoy contacts across Europe's business schools, electronic messaging and access to...
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Figments and pigments
Was Peter Hill's letter on The Leeds 13 and "superfictions" real or itself a superfiction ("Worth a Damien?", THES, June 25)? And who cares, and does it matter? For those critical of the...
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Lodging a complaint
For long enough, colleagues have complained of the "development of managerialism" in higher education. Now, it would appear, financial crises in the sector have prompted inspired innovative solutions...
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No real case for HGE
So Robert Winston plans to start genetically engineering human beings ("Fertile with ideas for the infertile", THES, May 14), despite previous claims that such possibilities are so far into the...
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Treasury must stump up for Bett
Your editorial is entirely right to say that it is essential to find ways of implementing Bett's "modest and eminently justifiable recommendations" in respect of university pay (Opinion, THES, June...
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Treasury must stump up for Bett
Has the Bett report told us anything we did not already know? That most academics are underpaid, that universities do not have the money to make up the difference and that the government will not...
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Curious anthropology
As parents of a 15-week-old boy, we found Gabriele vom Bruck's assertion that academic women who cannot negotiate equal terms of domestic labour with their partners should "stop complaining" and...
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The wage of reason
Stephen Machin and Andrew Oswald ("Economic rent", THES, June 25) argue that academic economists need to be paid "far, far more". The main reason they give is that young economists are now going into...
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The English have got a lovely bunch of coconuts
Voltaire's Coconuts
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Blind man with the gift of vision
Collected Fictions - Selected Poems
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Living pictures of phantom dead
Cinema and the Great War - Filming All Quiet on the Western Front