Computer sciences come bottom of the quality class
Computer science departments have produced the lowest proportion of excellent ratings in any of the eight subjects so far assessed for teaching quality by the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Oxford votes on promotions system
A postal vote on Oxford University plans for a promotions system that would create hundreds of new professors and readerships has divided dons. The university is counting the vote today. The...
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Tiger's eyes
(Photograph) - Mahathir Mohamad, prime minister of Malaysia, one of the fast-growing so-called "tiger" economies of South-east Asia, this week launched the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre at...
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The entertainment industry
On this Comic Relief Day, Jean-Louis Barsoux looks at the peculiar use of humour in Britain's businesses. Managers up and down Britain today will strolled into work wearing red noses. They did this...
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Hairy time for Hong Kong
Huw Richards reports on The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S's conference on the territory's future. In the absence of American participants nobody used the phrase "800 pound gorilla", but the sense of a brooding offstage...
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Complete teacher in a divided world
Akbar Ahmed on the provocative social scientist Ernest Gellner. I first met Ernest Gellner 20 years ago. Based at the London School of Economics, he already had a formidable academic reputation,...
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All quiet on the home front
David Walker looks in vain for meaningful messages from Britain's silent sociologists. Fond as they are of the word, British sociologists do not discourse much. Indeed at the midpoint of this decade...
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Barbie invites dry up for Liz
We shouldn't be surprised by Australian republicanism, argues David Corson, it is what you would expect from a country with such a strong egalitarian culture. In a 1978 poll, Australians were asked...
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Parting political shots
The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...
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Running on a losing FE ticket
Fawzi Ibrahim does his colleagues in further education no favours by referring to slave contracts and slave-owning employers (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 3). He insults the suffering of millions of people worldwide...
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Beware sloppy sloganeering
Poorly understood free market principles applied to science funding pose a threat to long-term research, says Derek Roberts. I am disappointed, but not surprised to see (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 10) that the...
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Boy's own revisited
Laurie Taylor (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 10) was clearly unimpressed with the article by John Davies on the increasing use of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in student assessment (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 3). I was intrigued...
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Micky Mouse mistakes
John Sutherland's review of a new book on copyright (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 3) has a number of errors: for example, in July 1995 United Kingdom copyright term extends to 70 years post mortem. Contrary to what...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a succinct scientist: "However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists....
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Speaking Volumes: British Capitalism, Workers and the Profits Squeeze
Martin Holmes on Andre Glyn and Bob Sutcliffe's British Capitalism, Workers and the Profits Squeeze . The early 1970s was an intellectually exhilarating time to be an undergraduate student of...