Nineties kitsch, not sixties
Simon Lilley's "Dr Deadpan's bag of tricks" (February 26) said that a paper by Stephen Linstead of Sunderland Business School on how kitsch affects scientific/ social scientific thinking as well as...
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Wanted: diary of a toddler, aged two
Researchers in Manchester are on the hunt for a toddler and his stay-at-home mum or dad to take part in a diary study to shine light on language development. Staff at the new Max Planck Child Study...
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Madagascar fruit bat research a first
Two Aberdeen University zoologists are to carry out the first nationwide survey of fruit bats in Madagascar, with the aim of putting them on the conservation agenda. Research fellows Clare Hawkins...
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Art schools form business bond
The London Institute, Royal College of Art and Wimbledon School of Art have formed a consortium to set up a learning and teaching centre, opening in August. The consortium is giving Pounds 80,000...
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Dean was 'unfairly dismissed'
A dean of engineering found guilty of sexually harassing two secretaries was unfairly dismissed, a Glasgow industrial tribunal has ruled. But the tribunal said Ian Marshall of Paisley University had...
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Designer survey debunks jobs myth
Nearly 90 per cent of art and design graduates have full-time jobs or are self-employed within three years of leaving college, says a report out next week. The findings, based on a survey of 2,000...
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Open University joins US club
The Open University of the United States was given permission to start teaching students last week by the Middle States Colleges and Universities Commission. "This gives us power to extend our...
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Russian crisis hits Marxist venture
A major international academic project to compile the definitive complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is under threat because of the financial crisis in Russia. Funding for the Russian...
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Danes move to bolster on-job teacher training
An umbrella university of educational theory and teaching will be created in Denmark if proposals to strengthen research and enhance in-service training for teachers and social educators are adopted...
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Telecoms first for Finns
Finland's first fully-fledged degree course taught in English begins in September when the Helsinki University of Technology launches a two-year master's degree in telecommunications. The course,...
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Need for partners as big business muscles in
The threat of global competition, particularly from the US, is finally coming home to UK universities. Those eager to exploit the opportunities, like the Open University, are the exception....
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Army retreat still leaves bullets flying on campus
After 15 years of military rule, Nigeria has a chance for democracy. John Morgan and Michael Omolewa call on academia to play its part There are high expectations in Nigeria as the transition to...
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Mr Brown sows seedcorn for bumper harvest
The good news for higher education in this week's Budget is on the research side. Directly, modest but most welcome extra sums were announced for the University Challenge Fund and for infrastructure...
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Singular failure to tackle plurality
The under-representation of non-white academics in British universities ("The colour blind spot", THES, March 5) is little short of a scandal, but by focusing almost exclusively on recruitment...
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Singular failure to tackle plurality
It was interesting to see the list of art and music colleges with no black academics. Many are very small, with fewer than 1,000 students and a staff of 100 full-time equivalent or fewer. Art schools...