Hot air and global warming
Ragnar Lofstedt asks if grand environmental UN conclaves really achieve anything. Global warming is in the news again. Last month signatories to the United Nations convention on climate change came...
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Creative computing
Margaret Boden believes that computers can teach us a lot about human creativity. Aisling Irwin went to meet her. The story of Henry Ant, composed by a computer program called Tale-Spin, is...
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Hot on Chile, cool on Rio
Huw Richards talks to Victor Bulmer-Thomas, the organiser of this week's ILAS conference on the Latin American economy. Rarely has that hackneyed formulation "First the good news, then the bad" been...
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Discoursing with intent
Sociology, its critics claim, is wedded to jargon and unloved by the society it purports to understand. But Michle Barrett argues that the discipline still has much to say. The link between academic...
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Singing tune of Return to Fender
I attended the Association of University Administrators' Conference in Bristol last month. The prospect of so many university administrators all together would be daunting to the most resilient vice...
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More choice for Poles
The political changes in eastern Europe that began in 1989, and the disappearance of the Iron Curtain, offered chances for universities in the region to establish closer relations with academic...
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Perfection and the opinion poll
Huw Richards's otherwise reasonable write-up of the French election (THES, May 5) contains the statement: "after getting their (opinion poll) findings as spectacularly wrong as their British...
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Build on expertise of bodies
In the quality assurance debate I am always surprised to see little or no reference to the work of professional bodies in course validation. The Royal Institute of British Architects has been working...
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Unlucky break
As an unlucky applicant, I wonder why out of 62 awards for the 1995/96 British Academy Research Leave Scheme in the Humanities, only three were awarded to applicants from new universities. Jean-...
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Exchange non-starters
Rakesh Bhanot (THES, April 21) suggests that if European universities move to a secular calendar, it would be easier to spend a semester abroad. A Netherlands Organisation for International Co-...
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No end to pay wane
It looks as if the Association of University Teachers will have no option but to ratify the agreement reached last week for a pay increase of 2.7 per cent. That will set the benchmark for the Natfhe...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the first of Clio's followers: "'Soft countries,' he said, 'breed soft men. It is not the property of any one soil to produce fine fruits and good soldiers too.' The...
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Speaking Volumes: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
Nicola Lacey on Luce Irigaray's Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche . I have spent far longer choosing the book for this column than writing the column itself. My initial enthusiasm for the project...
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Boffins in the boudoir
Human Sperm Competition - The Facts of Life - Science in the Bedroom
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Dances with waves
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