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As Pounds 3,405 million of research funding is distributed according to the 1996 RAE ratings, THES readers examine the flawed basis of its judgements In the year since I wrote in The THES about the...
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ARCHITECTURE. Bradley, Simon, and Nikolaus Pevsner London: The city churches (The Buildings of London, vol 1) Penguin. 160pp, illus. Pounds 9.99 (paperback). 0 14 071100 7. 25/6/98 Schildt, Goran;...
Alison McNab and Ian Winship point to the best of the Web for novice and experienced scientists. Many people's experience of the Internet is a frustrating one, with connections being slow and useful...
Richard Poynder scours the Net for resources for the humanities and offers some good starting points. For those prepared to make the effort of seeking it out, there is a rich seam of material on the...
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Student loans injected a dose of financial reality into Australian universities. Linda Christmas look at the results. Most people in Australia remember the fuss. There were protests and placards and...
Derek Law describes moves to make new database services available to academics. For some years users of Janet (Joint Academic Network) have been becoming familiar with a growing list of acronyms -...
The THES has had three editors in its 25-year history. The first, Brian MacArthur, recalls launching the paper with seven staff and not a marketing man in sight. His successor, Peter Scott, remembers...
Are the Tories, after decades of proudly sporting their moniker as 'the stupid party', becoming intellectual? Huw Richards looks at the evidence. A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks -...
A revolution ignores moral issues at its peril, argue Simon Rogerson and Terrell Ward Bynum. Computing technology is the most powerful and flexible technology ever devised. For this reason it is...
What makes people buy expensive freshly squeezed orange juice at Marks & Spencer? David Walker asks if the idea of rational choice - that people behave consistently selfishly - has passed its...