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Thousands miss out on university places Tens of thousands of students are to lose out on their dream of going to university, figures showed today. Top institutions such as University College London...
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Laurie Taylor column
piercemuller@poppleton.ac.uk Out-of-office reply. Dr Piercemuller is away from his desk on annual research leave and will respond to your communication on his return. maureen@poppleton.ac.uk Dr...
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Leader: Job curbs won't work but aid will
When academics in Britain and elsewhere discuss the brain drain, they are normally worrying about the loss of high-flyers to the US. But lecturers' unions were right to remind us this week that the...
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Leader: Postdoc promotion
There are good reasons why there should be more postdoctoral students on temporary contracts in the physical and biological sciences than in the arts and social sciences. Modern scientific research...
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Bad science of the 'bigger' brains
In the leader about the article "IQ claim will fuel gender row" (August 26), the editor observes with pleasure that research on gender differences in IQ have not been hindered by "political...
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Design flaw
Jonathan Baldwin mounts a spirited defence of the new University College London logo and of the importance of design ("Why I think designers are undervalued", August 12). He has raised a number of...
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Ominous vision
Christina Riggs writes: "It is still perfectly possible to gain an Egyptology degree without ever seeing an ancient object", (Books, August 19). This is hilarious - but ominous. I have visions of...
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Lack of support
The problems highlighted in the article "MA tutors refuse to supervise critics" (August 26), which include cancelled modules, delays in feedback and lack of availability of supervisors, are probably...
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Emotional responses? 1
OK, I'll stick my head above the parapet. Mary Evans claims that female staff fill the emotional gaps left by poor male managers and that "institutional life publicly marginalises the personal" (...
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Emotional responses? 2
Mary Evans cited Poppleton's Maureen as an example of the way that "female staff should stop filling the emotional gaps left by poor male managers". I am delighted to see that, judging from the...
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Brought to book
Jon Baldwin's article (Opinion, August 26) prompts me to contrast my experiences as an independent researcher in accessing UK and Canadian university libraries. In the two UK establishments with...
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Relatively speaking
On what grounds could "lecturer's leaders" object to the proper appointment of staff because they are related to existing staff ("Anger at Brunel over recruits' family ties", August 26)? I have...
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Cash for answers
For researchers in the arts and humanities, libraries are an important "non-laboratory estates resource" ("Ill-prepared institutions may miss out on cash", August 26). When the libraries are of...
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Chemical reaction
At its recent conference, the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry passed a resolution noting with concern the decline in the provision of chemistry teaching in British universities...
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Blinding debate
It is becoming quite a game to scan an article by Simon Blackburn to spot the gratuitous gibe at at the UK or US governments ("Face it, maybe you are a camel", August 26). It is a pity that a leading...