Harmonising Hellenist
John Davies meets Pat Easterling, Cambridge's first female regius professor of Greek. It is hard to find a bad word said about Patricia Easterling. The newly appointed regius professor of Greek at...
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A negative result
David Edmonds on the campaign to outlaw affirmative action in the US. James Meredith wanted to study at his local state university. But when he sought to enrol there in 1962, President John F....
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Mind your language
Each time the world loses one of its tongues it may also be losing a unique insight into the structure of the human brain. David Charter reports Waimiri-Atroari is a language used exclusively by 500...
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A cat among the pidgins
Simon Targett meets the psycholinguist seducing the public with talk of occipital lobes, Steven Pinker (below) Syntax, inflectional morphology, diphthongs, the cerebral cortex and the occipital lobe...
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Happy, chez Heller
While simultaneously on the phone to Chicago and trying to find a book on his desk, the man - who was a total stranger to me -asked: "Are you interested in the history of European cities from the...
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Ensure seal is intact before use
Not for the first time, I have been musing ruefully on the apparently unavoidable tension that exists between seeking to inform colleagues about what is happening to their institution and why, and...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. Early start; must get to grips with the 12-inch pile of research funding applications. First meeting of the newly constituted South and West NHS research and development committee tomorrow....
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Good figures that portend bad news
Gareth Williams decodes the latest OECD education statistics which hint at UK higher education cuts According to a news release from David Blunkett the latest volume of Organisation for Economic Co-...
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The social side of the lab
Being cornered in one of the darker corridors of the LSE by a post-modern sociologist cannot be a very pleasant experience. But one can only surmise that this must be the reason for John Ashworth's...
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No innocents in the jungle
As one of the "innocents" referred to in "innocents in the research jungle" (Brian Everett, THES, March 31), I would like to suggest that the author used the wrong merger of nursing college with...
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Science: The view from industry
The Technology Foresight Programme is only a stage in a debate which must widen on how science's role in society can best be developed, says George Poste Government desires to develop science and...
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Sixties peak of female performance
Dr Goodhart is correct in identifying the increase in the female entry at Oxford and Cambridge as a factor in the decline of female academic performance since the early 1970s. Another factor is a...
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Pensions in Hong Kong
In "pension funds change horses" (THES, April 7), Susie Weldon reports that the Hong Kong Polytechnic University retirement scheme is 90 per cent solvent and that retiring employees may receive fewer...
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Wait for the loan drop-outs
In your editorial "No More Fool's Gold" (THES, April 7) you mischievously compare the National Union of Students' decision to consider loan aid with Labour leader Tony Blair's abandonment of Clause...
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Muscling in on the mind
Hunt for language gene" (THES, April 7) made depressing reading and I hope that the geneticists referred to will have second thoughts before spending their careers on this search. They could look...