False note about music
IT IS misleading to state that the new department of world music at Thames Valley is the first of its kind in a British university (THES, June ). The centre of music studies, School of Oriental and...
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Fermat's vast legacy
JOHN OCKENDON and Rebecca Gower, reviewing the books by Anir Aczel and Simon Singh on Fermat's Last Theorem (THES, June ), have missed the point about Andrew Wiles's outstanding achievement. Although...
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When in Italy...
FURTHER to your article on the offshoots of American universities in Rome, I would like to clarify the role of The Association of American College and University Programs in Italy. Founded in Rome in...
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Long live the lecture
JOHN WAKEFORD's view that the lecture has had its day needs qualifying (THES, June ). It is not that the skills of rhetoric or oratory are dead, but that the communication forms in which they are...
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R and D is not typical
YOU REPORT the finding of the 1997 Research and Development scoreboard that United Kingdom R and D expenditure as a percentage of sales falls behind that of other G7 countries (THES, June ). This...
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A sad day for welfare
I TURNED with interest to Richard Layard's prescription for the unemployment problem (THES, June ). As your analysis rightly points out, Professor Layard has been in the background of the welfare...
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Care and share for the future
The "comprehensive review" of tertiary education decreed by New Zealand's coalition government will be very different from its many predecessors. In the past, reviews have been entrusted to hand-...
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Don's Diary
Friday Only four days left of British Hong Kong, but I decline bacon and eggs and opt for the congee breakfast. We are staying at Robert Black college, the old staff accommodation of the University...
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Skinny pigs give clue to anorexia
ANOREXIC pigs have led scientists in Wales to believe that the condition could have genetic as well as psycho-social causes. John Owen, professor of agriculture at the University of Wales, Bangor,...
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Socrates cuts cause outcry
BRITISH universities and colleges have joined in a chorus of protest across Europe against drastic cuts in European Commission grants supporting student and lecturer exchanges. They have condemned...
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First-class degrees on wane
THE NUMBER of students gaining top honours is falling, according to statistics published today. But the male/female divide remains, with 7.7 per cent of male students who achieved degrees in 1995/96...
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Trinity's new master
THE PRIME minister has appointed the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college, writes Harriet Swain. Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, will become...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from a dandy who took part in the Napoleonic campaigns: "On 15 May 1796 General...
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The science of getting it wrong
Yes, We Have No Neutrons
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Lost window of opportunity
Laboratory Earth