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The American Journal of Bioethics
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Laurie Taylor column
"Quasi-academic degrees are winning favour" - THES , November 15. Item 16 on the agenda. Statement by Professor Lapping. Thank you, Dr Quintock. Some of you around this table will remember that...
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'Daft ducks' and 'smelly old cows' probably not welcome
Ageism in universities is not limited to academic staff, writes Chris Bunting. Many mature students find that they are isolated and suffer abuse in a system that favours the young. Julie" doesn't...
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Experience counts for little if the years are stacking up
Despite warnings of a staff-recruitment crisis, universities continue to dump 'dynamic, innovative' academics for the heinous 'crime' of turning 65. Helen Hague reports Despite all the talk about...
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Dirty secrets of Great War
Many participants in the first world war buried painful memories of their brutality and atrocities. The result was a society paralysed by grief and passive in the face of subsequent fascism,...
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West's finger is on trigger, but will it help Iraqi victims?
War in Iraq would spark an exodus of refugees, but the West is unlikely to welcome the displaced with open arms. Gil Loescher reports If, as many predict, the United Nations inspection of Iraqi...
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US faculty play a numbers game
Academic salaries in the US have been soaring as faculty vie for the best, but, writes Stephen Phillips, pay inflation is slowing. "I have a formula," recounts literary critic Stanley Fish, dean of...
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Skeggie lad enjoys pasta and Carnage
Money's tight and a 9am seminar is no fun with a hangover, but Liam Twigg is still happy to be the first in his family to enrol at university. Harriet Swain joined him in Birmingham for the fourth...
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Medium fright
I am surprised you report that the research assessment exercise "does not yet recognise digitally published research" ("Take away the books and chairs collapse", THES , November 8). As a monograph...
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Funding firsts
Leicester University's US funding coup is an achievement but it is not a first ("Leicester wins US funding for trial on red wine cancer drug", THES , November 8). Twenty-five years ago at Middlesex...
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In brief 2
Pop idol Gareth Gates was involved in publicity for Bradford's City of Culture bid ("Open market shuts door on scholarly achievement", THES , November 8). But the university made no use of his...
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In brief 3
The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education is UK based but not UK owned. It began as a joint UK/Commonwealth organisation and now has a global membership ("Canny spin-off hailed as trendsetter",...
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In brief 1
As a highly practical male academic I find Angela Clow's comment, "one of the roles I play in this department is to be the woman and point this sort of thing out", sexist and objectionable ("All in a...
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Great returns on your money? 1
Calculations of the return on investing in a degree are examples of fantasy economics worthy of the greatest scepticism ("Money back guaranteed?", THES , November 8). The calculation has to be...