Vice-chancellors sell out infantry
It would be churlish not to celebrate extra money for education. But it would be naive to take the headline figures at face value. The presentation is irritatingly slick. There is double counting and...
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Raw material, tainted cash
In the knowledge-based, weightless economy developing around the world, research is the raw material for growth. Demand for ideas is huge and so is the response. The numbers of people employed in...
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Thirteen ways to treat an external examiner
1 Always send incomplete drafts of exam papers to be approved. The draft should be full of grammatical errors, missing parts of questions, inconsistent numbering and ambiguities. Illegible hand-...
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One that got away from the fish laboratory ...
I have turned my back on earning a living in the lab after almost seven years as a scientific researcher. The decision was not easy and has left me feeling like a lapsed scientist, just as I lapsed...
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And one that stayed
Andy Pitsillides is in his first lecturing post, teaching anatomy. He has contemplated leaving science but stayed - partly because he was offered the lectureship after his second postdoctoral...
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RAE forces us to fudge
Having read two pieces on "abuse" in the research assessment exercise (THES, July 3 and July 10), I feel moved to respond. I should start by pleading guilty to being one of those "managers" in...
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Hot shots
(Photograph) - Rolls-Royce backs 16 university technology centres in Britain, where teams are developing competitive aero-engines and industrial power systems, see page .
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Russian invitation
Opportunities for western universities and firms to work with advanced institutions in the former USSR countries have been created through the International Science and Technology Centre based in...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EUROPEAN UNION. www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu. int/comm/...
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Walking out of the picture
(Photograph) - Steve Morgan, a fine arts student at Cheltenham and Gloucester College, with his final-year sculpture show. Photograph: MAMP
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Clinical assessment
We agree that it is not possible to forecast the need for additional doctors in the National Health Service in isolation from other health care professionals (THES, July 3). The Campbell report's...
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Women and poker
Your feature on women's academic career prospects (THES, July 3) was most illuminating. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature on this topic. Much of this featured at a conference in...
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Women and poker
I trust that David C. Nicoll is not an academic. Before he sneered at Anne Boddington's description of going for promotion as "like playing poker with loaded dice", he should have checked that poker...
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Embryonic blemishes
It is unfortunate that the picture chosen to illustrate the article "Engineered to perfection" (THES, July 10) about the issues surrounding pre-implantation genetic diagnosis was misleading, as were...
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No noto yo-yo
I am sorry that John Sparks (THES, July 10), who is so much on the same side as I am when it comes to teaching in higher education, thinks it necessary to take me to task, but his "trial and error"...