Bread and dripping
William Martin (THES, September ) correctly points out the potential for savings through institutions taking full advantage of VAT zero-rating opportunities. He gives sound advice but it is only part...
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Predators at the negotiating table
I was as heartened by the article in support of Roger Scruton by another distinguished philosopher, David Wiggins (THES, October 4), as I was dismayed by the condemnation from the animal rights lobby...
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Applied A levels set for sidings
The Government is likely to ditch one of Sir Ron Dearing's key recommendations for ensuring parity of esteem between academic and vocational qualifications, turning advanced General National...
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Shelf-preservation in a coded climate
Marilyn Deegan looks at the challenges facing research libraries in the electronic era. The function of a research library is the preservation of our written cultural heritage for the long term....
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AUT fears bite in job watchdog
Lecturers' leaders have cast serious doubt on two projects designed to improve staff development and job evaluation in universities and colleges. The Association of University Teachers and the...
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Fair's fair please
(Photograph) - Fair's fair please: Unison members take their minimum wage campaign to the Department for Education and Employment. The union, with 50,000 members, the biggest in higher education, has...
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Call for sheep-dip ban
Farm experts called for a ban on sheep-dips based on organophosphates this week until more is known about their link to neurological damage, mental instability and suicide among farmers. According to...
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Minister adds fuel to v-c fire
Relations between vice chancellors and the ߣߣÊÓƵn government are close to breaking point after the education minister Amanda Vanstone called them helpless and unqualified to advise society on...
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Cambodian tragedy laid on a misunderstood Marx
In his book review of Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, Richard Gough wonders "how many lives worldwide might have been saved had Karl Marx kept his political and economic...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Go to Wakefield. I am on my way to the First International Conference on GeoComputing at Leeds University, but I am staying with a friend in Wakefield. We are supposed to meet at Kirkgate...
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Verona axes 23 foreign lecturers in status row
Twenty-three foreign lecturers at the University of Verona have been sacked for refusing to move to the university's linguistic centre as technical staff. The dispute dates back to 1988 and centres...
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Verdant pastures with a premium attached
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Coup for 'coffee jar' monitor
British scientists hope to use data from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland last week to predict volcanic hyperactivity months before an eruption. For the team from the University of Durham, the...
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Jesus College, Cambridge
(Photograph) - The new library at Jesus College, Cambridge offers a vision of the digital library as a haven of quiet study and peaceful order amid the chaos and frenetic pace of the Internet. The...
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Doctors have a good feel
Trainee doctors are to experience the ups and downs of dealing with patients earlier following complaints that their degrees are too theoretical. New medical students at Liverpool University will...