Privations of the private college student
Mek Weerakoon's letter on student grants and funding (THES, March 3) was particularly poignant since each week I and my college registrar have to meet with distraught students and discuss their...
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Challenge to a dual system
Alistair MacFarlane argues for a radical approach to research funding. The review of the dual support system which has been initiated by the Office of Science and Technology is of great potential...
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The value of Acas conciliation
Fawzi Ibrahim's attack on Acas (Letters, THES, March 3) is astonishing. Mr Ibrahim is certainly not writing on behalf of the national executive of Natfhe, he is simply putting his own view. As one of...
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Ski team storms the colonnades
It used to be the ultimate achievement to have a room looking on to the lawn that stretches from the classical Rotunda designed by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia in the United States...
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Crean of the crop
Among observers of the national political scene in Canberra, Simon Crean is listed as a future prime minister, remarkable progress for somone who entered parliament in 1990. Former prime minister Bob...
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Union demands a say in reforms
Academic staff are threatening to boycott the transfer of university degrees to New Zealand's qualifications framework unless they are involved in the administrative structure. The Association of...
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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...
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A bear dragged to market
Lost Opportunity
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A biotic holocaust
The Biophilia Hypothesis - The Economic Value of Biodiversity - Paradise Lost? - Essentials of Conservation Biology
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Farming at the margins
Drought follows the Plow
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Palme, Mick and Harry
Enemy Within
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Plundering the past, polluting the present
Kirtipur, An Urban Community in Nepal
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Running battles over holy water
Water and Power - The River Nile
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Sawing off the limbs we are standing on
World Resources 1994-1995 - People and the Environment: - The World at the Crossroads - The Gnat is Older than Man - Blueprint Three - Development and Environment: - The Ecology of Commerce