First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a classicscience-fiction novel that has just been filmed: "I looked at my notes and I didn't like...
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From the vision of eccentrics
Great Smaller Museums of Europe
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Borderline behaviour
Wild West China
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It's not all fun and sun on threatened coastal isles
A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Advice is urgently needed on how to write academic CVs " - Letter in Times Higher , July 2. Darling, finished your CV for that De Montfort job? I'm a bit stuck on page one. GIVE FULL NAME. That's...
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Alan Ryan
When you run a great research university, you also run risks - as Harvard University has found to its cost. Elite but cash-strapped universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, University College London...
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Leader: Brown must get in on the Act
After all the histrionics of last winter and spring, the Higher Education Bill became an Act with barely a whimper. Even the Lords' rebellions produced only a gap year concession that will cost the...
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Leader: New stars for old
The brain drain is a perennial concern of politicians and university leaders, but it is never as simple as the headlines make out. The academic labour market has become so international that no...
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Fiddling while education burns 1
There is an interesting juxtaposition in Kieron O'Hara's "Conflict overrules consensus" and Alan Smithers' "Set free to do the job" (Soapbox, June 25). Both argue that outside pressures are harming...
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Fiddling while education burns 2
There is a certain ironic symmetry in Smithers' complaint that university education departments are being forced to act as if they are doing research in physics. Our new academic staff are made to...
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Fiddling while education burns 3
We have just survived exam time again. Lecturers waded through mountains of scripts, wielding their red pens in despair or, occasionally, delight. But, for them, grading exams and assignments is no...
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Mobile risk - return call 1
In your article "Review by peers 'good for science''' (News, June 25), the following appears: "In 1998, self-employed researcher Roger Coghill released research straight to the media saying that the...
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Mobile risk - return call 2
Many of your readers will have an old mobile phone or printer cartridge tucked away in a drawer at home or at work. These unwanted items can benefit cancer research. Old mobiles and printer...
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Lapse in space
The Declaration of Helsinki says that "it is unethical to conduct research which is badly planned and poorly executed". Where scientific project management is concerned, and as shown by Richard...