A Balkan question in search of an answer
As fighting in the former Yugoslavia escalates, The THES asked leading academics the following questions: 1. What action do you think Britain and the UN should take next? 2. Is the present attitude...
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Look east, we're lagging behind
Every now and then the world's attention shifts. For much of the post-war period it focused on the Third World, on Korea and Vietnam and the struggles against colonialism. In the 1980s it was the...
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Judge people, not project
I am one of the 1,222 unsuccessful applicants in this year's Economic and Social Research Council research studentship competition, but fortunately I have a job. My complaint is about the way the...
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Window of research opportunity
Your report and headline "British Academy cuts PhD years" on my address on behalf of the British Academy's Humanities Research Board for Graduate Education (THES, July 28) is misleading. First, the...
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Fiction of national standards
There are 10,000 external examiner slots to be filled at any one time, but how feasible and desirable is the role? Harold Silver asks. The key finding of the recent project on the future of external...
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Raising the grade gets the money
You report Graeme Davies (THES, July 28) belatedly telling universities that they should desist from participating in the pre-research assessment exercise transfer deadline because their investment...
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Barking up the New Right tree
Readers should not be misled by Harvey Kaye's superficial misconstrual of Newt Gingrich's remarkable book To Renew America (THES, July 28). Nor should they follow him in underestimating the...
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Afrikaner off the Marx
Do I detect just a hint of poetic licence in Mike Cole's Don's Diary (THES, July 7)? The gentleman he saw in full regalia in a coffee bar in the Orange Free State could certainly not have been a...
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A contract killing
In his vicious maligning of further education staff who have rejected the Colleges Employers Forum contract, Roger Ward (THES, July 26) demonstrates yet again the ignorant hostility that has made it...
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Excitement in the challenge
Engineering and Physical Sciences All efforts to ensure that science and technology can contribute to national well-being rely for their success on one vital factor; namely the inherent excitement of...
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Unesco digs deep to save caveman site
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is appealing for help to raise Pounds 1.6 million to fund emergency protection of the endangered Peking Man site in China. The money...
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The vapourised and the dead
In the steaming heat of a July evening this year, 20 students at the American University in Washington were hard at work learning about the history of nuclear war. "The question is why did we drop...
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Passport rush to beat oppression
The value of foreign passports among lecturers in Hong Kong has reached an all-time high, with uncertainty reaching fever-pitch among lecturers over China's plans for academic freedom after 1997....
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China signs book deal
The Chinese government has established a special fund to support and promote key academic books. Starting this year the State Press and Publication Administration will set aside 10 million yuan (...
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Students face three year wait
Students in Sri Lanka taking their A levels this month may have to wait three years before being admitted to university. The youth uprising between 1987-90 led to the closure of universities for...