Don's diary
Monday The BBC Wednesday Plays and postwar British drama project, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is now in its second year and my mail is becoming relentless. Mondays are...
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The cloud men vs the counters
Image and Logic
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Gypsy professors roam US campuses
An "army of gypsy professors" is wandering the United States, unable to find full-time employment because higher education is too bottom-heavy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
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Thinking of investing in biotech? Put your money on the 3.30 at Chepstow instead
Once upon a time the City couldn't get enough of those promising offspring of campus research - biotechnology companies. Now their stocks have taken a dive. James Norman explains why such a...
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Cut-price teaching
Higher Education Trends in this week's THES draws attention to the growing casualisation of the acdemic profession. It is likely, as Lucy Hodges reports (page i), that official figures from the...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Arrive in Toronto having been relayed from Manchester via the retail mecca which is today's Amsterdam Schiphol airport. The weather seems surprisingly mild. Spend the evening making hasty...
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Glaxo turns to Cambridge in hunt for drugs
"It all came about as a result of Roger and me talking over a quiet gin and tonic one evening, chatting about the world, the universe, and chemistry." That is how Steven Ley, British Petroleum...
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Farid the fair and faithful
South African lecturer Farid Esack is one of a rare breed, the radical Muslim, unafraid to challenge Islamic prejudice. His appointment to the new Gender Equality Commission is all grist to the mill...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Standards, measurements & testing Contacts: Philippe Quevauviller. Fax: +32-2-295.80.72 Open call for accompanying...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Information technologies (ESPRIT) Contact: email: esprit@dg13.cec.be Open call: Research proposals in domains 1,2,6 and 8....
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Dons take lessons in lecturing
As term starts a whole crop of new academics is facing its first students, The THES asks what support and training they get. Lecturers starting their first jobs this autumn face an unprecedented...
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Summer breeze?
Academics, it is commonly supposed, spend their time during the summer getting intimate with Tuscany. So The THES asked four of them what they area ctually doing. John Kidd Director of the James...
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Max Price: Start local, go global and fight the nation's corner
4 October 2012 Building research-intensive universities in developing countries is no easy task but it is vital to the promotion of economic, cultural, social and intellectual progress, argues Max...