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Public Purpose or Private Benefit? The Politics of Energy Conservation
Public Purpose or Private Benefit? The Politics of Energy Conservation
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Greening the Built Environment
Town and Country
Life Out of Bounds
Cash cows amid bulls and bears Elizabeth Chell is a professor of management at the University of Newcastle. On top of her salary, she also earns money from private consultancy, advising small firms...
British historians are churning out books and articles 'with all the frenzied energy of battery chickens on overtime'. But no one is reading them. David Cannadine describes a profession driven to...
Cash cows amid bulls and bears Commercial sponsorship of an academic's research for the benefit of his university is usually strictly separated from any private consultancy activity. If the money is...
Business schools can earn millions - but is what they do proper research and should academics be allowed to reap huge profits from private work? Phil Baty reports. Just when the field of business...
Cash cows amid bulls and bears Warwick University's business school insists that its commercial sponsors co-fund group research projects to avoid charges of "glorified consultancy". These "subscriber...
Adept at riding waves, the surfing Nobel laureate Kary Mullis has now taken to making them - he claims that there is no evidence that HIV causes Aids. Ayala Ochert reports. Kary Mullis has been...
Michael Rose (above), former head of the UN's peace effort in Bosnia, argues that Nato bombs did not bring the Serbs to the peace table in 1995 and are unlikely to do so now. By firing cruise...
John Davies picks programmes of interest to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Good science documentaries do not just tell you what is known; they tell you how it is known....
Last week in The THES... Derek Portwood argued that the advantages of college franchises outweigh the disadvantages Brian Styles, Principal, City of Bristol College There has been a lot of research...
Q. I have been trying unsuccessfully for five years to get a sabbatical. Is this unusual and are there any national guidelines on sabbatical leave? A. Paul Cottrell, Assistant general secretary,...