Times Higher Education Supplement 1992 - Abstracts

Times Higher Education Supplement 1992
TitleSubjectAuthors
A barometer built from broken pieces. (opportunities for eastern and western Europe to compare outlooks on social sciences)EducationRichard Rose
A boost blurring the edge. (post-16 education and training courses)EducationNicholas Ryssell
A brush with a mouse. (need for creative application of computers to fine arts)EducationSimon Lewandowski
Absolution aesthetic in a shadow landscape. (work of photographer Don McCullin)EducationPaul Gough
Across the great divide. (Britain has lost ground in the EC)EducationJuliet Lodge
A degree of forethought. (training courses in journalism)EducationFred Hunter
A forgotten embarrassment of riches. (biography of F R Leavis)EducationDavid Hamilton Eddy
A good return on investment; formal partnerships between commerce and academe.EducationJane Bower
A law unto itself; the Bar is tightening its grip on entry.EducationPeter Birks
Allies reduced in ranks. (comparisons between British and American universities)EducationJaroslav Krejci
Alternative to Utopia. (challenges to social welfare and class)EducationFrank Webster
A magician's cloak cast off for clarity. (need for public to understand how scientific research is done)EducationSteven Shapin
A marriage heading for failure; the Republicans' embrace of traditional morality.EducationJennie Somerville
And the band played on. (the tale of the Titanic)EducationRichard Howells
An ethics of reasoning. (artificial intelligence)EducationBeth Preston
An outsider looking in. (South Africa's attitude to the UN)EducationPaul Wilkinson
Anyone can make a mistake. (astronomer has to retract announcement of important discovery) (Column)EducationHarry Collins
Artificial environments; impact of information technology on business education.EducationClive Holtham
A taste for this and that. (Edinburgh, Scotland as a cultural center)EducationAlan Bold
A taste of history. (symbolism and meaning in food, eating and being)EducationSidney Mintz
A-team in the record books; success of the Open University's social science foundation course.EducationJames Anderson, Marilyn Ricci
Author as mirror to the soul. (new biography of Thomas Carlyle to be prepared)EducationMaurice Cowling
A virus out of control. (AIDS)EducationJonathan Mann, Daniel Tarantola
A voice for culture. (appointment of the new Minister for Heritage)EducationAnthony Smith
A watchdog in the garden; social sciences' role in evaluating environmental risks of scientific research.EducationBrian Wynne
A window on the secular soul. (the written word the only real insight to unchanging personality)EducationNicholas Russell
A yearning for peace. (Israel's future on the eve of Knesset elections)EducationHenri Stellman
Bad marks; standards of teaching at German universities.EducationCarel Mohn
Barber surgeons of the new age. (changes needed in the way doctors are trained)EducationRoy Yorke Calne
Barnum meets his napalm nemesis. (student revolutionary founded Vietnam Day Committee)EducationGerard de Groot
Barred from fortress Britain. (UK immigration policies following World War II)EducationDavid Cesarani
Bars on the doors. (survey on women's career progression in the public sector.)EducationJane Goodsir
Beaten by the big stick. (Conservatives Party seen as strongly concerned with law and order)EducationRobert Reiner
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered. (reexamination of Keith Thomas's book on religion and magic)EducationA.D. Harvey
Big Brother and the Roy Plomley test. (assessment of research ratings by popularity of published papers as guide to promotion)EducationWilliam Lamont
Big numbers save lives; the use of mega-statistics in medicine.EducationJon Turney
Black looks at the books; British and Dutch approaches to academic auditing.EducationChristopher T. Husbands
Blood on the harpoons. (possible resumption of commercial whaling)EducationMartin Ince, Marcel Weber
Box clever for a culture on autocue; a television presenters' course.EducationJennifer Breen
Brain cells with a Nobel mission. (need for graduate schools in the UK)EducationMark Richmond
Brazil's other rain forest problem. (the Atlantic rain forest)EducationFay Haussman
Breaking the bar under pressure. ('bush colleges' in South Africa)EducationDenis Herbstein
Bring back the backroom boys. (call for policy advisers to the British government similar to those of President Clinton)EducationIan Taylor
Britain's excellence in basic research is no longer guaranteed.EducationKeith Pavitt
Budget blues hit German rectors.EducationMike Gardner
Bump and grind for a plausible president. (the 1992 New York Democrat convention)EducationByron Shafer
Caff society on a voyage of discovery; ways to make science and museums fit together in more exciting combinations.EducationRoger Silverstone
China urged to free up universities.EducationGeoffrey Parkins
Choices facing the chums. (national research assessment of universities)EducationChristopher Pollitt, Fergus Millar
Clinton's female putsch. (backlash from Hill case persuaded women to vote Democrat)EducationMarya Burgess
CNAA: case for the preservation. (arguments against UK government threat to abolish Council for National Academic Awards)EducationRowland Eustace, Graeme C. Moodie
Collaborative culture. (programmes for cooperation in information technology research)EducationLuke Georghiou
Commandos of the word. (dependence of thought on language)EducationDaniel C. Dennett
Condensed spirit of haiku. (art of communicating in precise form)EducationChris Arthur
Crisis in the exchange rate; why economists have failed to predict changes in the 'wealth of nations.'EducationPaul Ormerod
Culture and the vultures. (imperialism and culture with regard to the literature canon)EducationEdward W. Said
Currency for the return ticket; historians are playing a key role in Romania's troubled transition to democracy.EducationTom Gallagher
Dark star in a new light; the life of Sir John Herschel, Victorian scientist.EducationIvor Grattan-Guinness
Death, lies and video. (television coverage of the Gulf War)EducationBrent MacGregor
Debt in the thesis trap: third-world research is booming - but costs outweigh the benefits.EducationPeter Bowbrick
Democracy's symbol reaches breaking point. (Salahaddin University in Iraqi Kurdistan)EducationJoseph de Vanoma
Digital dinosaurs; how long Macintosh's new breed of portables will last before being superseded.EducationDon Nichol
Doctor of corporate America; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the guru of business school theorists.EducationDavid Walker
Domestic dispute into crisis. (disagreements over future of social work training)EducationDavid Webb
Eclipse of the mirage makers. (need for research and development to facilitate UK recovery)EducationPhilip Cooke
Effective exploitation. (the Faraday Centres)EducationNeil Johnston, Robert Whelan
Elemental forces in critical motion. (usefulness of history of science)EducationRos Herman
English flight for Russian fledgelings; English speakers in demand in former Soviet republics.EducationLincoln Allison
Europe right or wrong. (increased support for British Bill of Rights)EducationRobert Blackburn
Europe's bitter harvest; EC biotechnology monitoring has failed to reassure public.EducationLes Levidow
Every which way but Bush; Republican Convention struggled to influence 'Reagan Democrats.'EducationByron E. Shafer
Faith in females; whether feminism and religion can forge a spiritual bond.EducationUrsula King
Fantastical with a fringe on top. (Edinburgh, Scotland)EducationOlga Wotjas
Fatal flaws in the machine. (the Labour Party has little chance of success)EducationGavin Mackenzie
Fears mount of Clinton cost cuts. (higher education in US may change if Clinton is elected)EducationLucy Hidges
Fears of ghosts and spectres; tension overshadows reform of East German higher education.EducationSarah Birch
Feast as a dog's dinner. (discussion on introducing generic arts into the school curriculum)EducationDavid Best
Feedback that is hard to swallow. (internal academic audits of teaching by students)EducationJennie. Brookman
Frankie goes to Dusseldorf. (British film industry should get involved in European sector)EducationJohn (American executive) Floyd
French with tears. (diversification in syllabus for French studies)EducationAnthony Lodge
From grunting to Granta; the rapid progress of the spoken word.EducationA. D. Harvey
Healthy animal passions. (animal rights and animal welfare.)EducationRobert Garner
Heat and dust from crumbling Olympia. (Canary Wharf development failure)EducationDarrel Crilley
Heavenly trysts. (Giotto spacecraft's meetings with Halley's and Grigg-Skjellerup comets)EducationDavid W. Hughes
Hello . . . and howdee; will British English win Japan from the American version?EducationJohn Honey
Here Todai, gone tomorrow. (Tokyo University's 'old boy network')EducationJohn Greenlees
Hidden secret of the kings of disguise. (communications engineer Harry Nyquist)EducationChris Bissell
History without flowers. (revising the Dictionary of National Biography)EducationRichard Davenport Hines
Hooked on the killing game. (Research linking AIDS, drugs and prostitution)EducationNeil McKeganey
Hope in the darkest hour. (the search for an HIV/AIDS vaccine)EducationJohn Galloway
Ideas lost in translation. (teaching of modern languages)EducationPhilip Thody
In a class of their own; teachers training teachers.EducationAndrew Hart
In the family way. ('Test tube babies' present a challenge to established conceptions of kinship)EducationGail Vines
Intimate seminars. (advantages of computer conferencing)EducationRobert Hall
Jammed in a cul-de-sac. (need for a transport policy to overcome congestion an pollution)EducationJohn Whitelegg
Join forces in modern marriage. (social science interaction with natural sciences)EducationHoward Newby
Juggling on a high wire. (proposed changes to funding vocational and higher education) (Column)EducationMichael Austin
Just the ticket. (European database disseminating research information)EducationTerry Hanson
Killing time on the war campus. (Royal Air Force intensive university training)EducationA. D. Harvey
Land of broken hearts; the plight of America's farmers.EducationRalph Willett
Last taste of forbidden fruits on the hard road to markets. (changing future for students of communist societies)EducationDavid Lane
Late show stars in the mainstream; has cultural studies really arrived?EducationMaureen McNeil
Levelling the playing field. (finance of undergraduate education in Britain)EducationDavid Finegold
Lip service for all at the lycee. (French secondary school system)EducationPatrick Champagne, Pierre Bourdieu
Long war in the Gulf. (the problems facing Kuwait University)EducationRalph Berry
Love without the sex object; sexual identity.EducationMichael Ruse
Market morality; the provision of business ethics teaching in Britain and Europe.EducationBrian Harvey
Marriage of best minds. (an invitation to academics to rebuild bridges with the Civil Service)EducationRobin Butler
Measurer of angels and demons. (profile of Anthony Giddens, the sociologist)EducationPeter Scott
Message misunderstood. (the AIDS/HIV media campaigns)EducationKevin Williams, David Miller, Jenny Kitzinger, Peter Beharrell
Mexican giants stumble. (criticism of Mexico's universities)EducationFay Haussman
More power to the ex-polys' elbows; momentous change for all sectors of higher education in the UK.EducationBrian Booth
New battles on a wounded landscape. (ten years of political change makes election result difficult to predict)EducationDenis Kavanagh
New frocks for the legal priesthood. (skills training for law students)EducationPatrick Woodward, Patrick Dalton
Nice pair of wheels; electron microscopy has solved the puzzle of how bacteria move.EducationJohn Postgate
Nigeria slides back into poverty. (the Nigerian higher education system)EducationMartyn Kelly
No oil for wheels of change. (lack of Soviet support affects Cuba's higher education)EducationJohn Bevan
No place like homeland. (South Africa's right-wing parties call for a white homeland)EducationJames Hamill
Northern learning lights. (Inuit teacher training to revive the Inuttitut language)EducationJim Boothroyd
Oasis in the jobs desert; the expansion of Jordanian higher education.EducationJames Whittington
Objectively unnatural. (understanding the nature of science)EducationLewis Wolpert
Oilseeds of discontent. (the GATT trade agreement)EducationAlan Swinbank
Ordinary voices and extraordinary thoughts. (production of corpus containing 100 million words)EducationKaren Gold
Overladen with honours. (need for changes in undergraduate degrees)EducationT. Brooke Benjamin
Overseas ventures; why business schools should adopt a more international outlook.EducationGeorge Bain
Parallel lines on the poetic. (teaching writing by television)EducationJules Older
Patten lays down pay line; government refuses to go to arbitration over pay deal.EducationDavid Jobbins, Alison Utley
Plain speaking with a world to win; the centenary of JBS Haldane, radical scientist and populist communicator.EducationJohn Durant
Pockets full of miracles. (global communications research at a centre in Melbourne)EducationWilliam Melody
Political correctness, campus malaise. (debates and concern in US academe)EducationLionel S. Lewis, Philip G. Altbach
Poor reap benefits of boom years. (developing countries enrolling more university students than developed countries)EducationEmma Henderson, Ian Bray
Profit and loss on the pulse of a nation. (public health measures and freedom for individuals)EducationBruce Charlton, Michael Kelly
Prospecting for genes; pitfalls of patenting genetic material.EducationDorothy Nelkin
Quality assurances; factors affecting the quality and acceptance of the MBA.EducationTom Cannon
Rational seeds in the power of love. (novel political ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr)EducationPaul Rich
Reflections of bestiality. (release of Soviet archives will facilitate comparisons of totalitarian regimes)EducationPaul Hayes
Rejection slip for an unused accord; plans to reform Canada's constitution are in tatters.EducationAnnis May Timpson
Reputation at risk. (Ulrich Beck, the German sociologist.)EducationHelga Nowotny
Riding a long shot all the way. (a review of three social science cohort studies)EducationKaren Gold
Right place, right time; genetic researchers locate key to co-ordinated cellular development.EducationMarcel Weber
Roars of lionesses. (feminist philosophers in the UK)EducationChristine Battersby
Room for reading. (French students are reading less)EducationPeter Hawkins
Santa Claus versus the five giants. (the growth of the welfare state)EducationRodney Lowe
Scientific approach to survival holidays; tropical 'research tourists.'EducationAnn Hills
Sci-fi with no script. (realisation that knowledge is fundamental to intelligence) (Column)EducationRoger Schank
Scots myth and the will to believe. (emergence of Scottish national identity)EducationRichard Finlay
Selling St Andrews state by US state.EducationGerard J. DeGroot
Selling starvation: the origins and myths of famine culture.EducationPat Caplan
Shifting into higher gear. (changes to courses in modern engineering)EducationChris Bissell
Shots in the dark; the transfer of ideas to the market.EducationVivian Moses
Silence of the sums. (possible reforms to accounting and auditing courses)EducationHugh Willmott, Tony Puxty, Prem Sikka
Sisters under the skin. (pictures of planet Venus help document Earth's evolution)EducationMichael Lancaster, Julie Cave
Slow start in the age race. (German students are disadvantaged because of the length of their degree courses)EducationCarel Mohn
Snow stops study on West Bank. (Palestinian universities suffering from Gulf War)EducationRichard Lim
Something from nothing; mass could be created from massless particles.EducationRay Jayawardhana
Spanner in the works. (death of the National Economic Council)EducationBill Daniel, Kirsty Hughes
Spatial awareness finds a new angle. (bicentenary of Nicolai Lobachevskii)EducationJeremy Gray
Strength in going your own way; University of Central England is not asking for state cash.EducationDavid Warner
Subversive scholar; how Thomas Kuhn shattered scientific beliefs 30 years ago.EducationJohn Ziman
Superpower legacy 'a disaster.' (racism towards African students in Commonwealth of Independent States)EducationSusannah Massey
Survival skirmish in aftermath of war. (Kurdish university suffers cuts in funding from Iraqi government)EducationJoseph de Vanoma
Taming of the jackals. (very little bitterness in France over Algerian war)EducationRichard Vinen
Taste in a low-rise stranglehold. (continuing debate between advocates of modern and classical architecture)EducationMarya Burgess
Thaw is slow to melt Siberia; problems for Russia's remotest region as it fights for growth.EducationMike Austin
The Consequences of the Peace: the New Internationalism and American Foreign Policy.EducationMichael Dunne
The exclusion of eccentricity. (changes to postgraduate research system in the humanities)EducationPhilip Thody
The good, bad and unquoted. (assessment of research quality by citation measurement)EducationHarry Collins
The grandparents' burden. (devastation caused by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa)EducationTony Barnett, Piers Blaikie
The magic of myths; Karl Popper believes poetry and science have the same origins.Education 
The making of the middle class. (different attitudes of polytechnic and university students)EducationPat Ainley
The night the spirit died. (French opinion on the Vichy government's treatment of Jews in 1942.)EducationPeter Carrier
The panacea in a poisoned chalice. (forecasts that entry of the Exchange Rate Mechanism by the UK would bring financial hardship have been proved right)EducationMartin Holmes
The politics of semtex; theories of terrorism.EducationPaul Wilkinson
The soupbowl syndrome; the dire poverty of a Chinese 'prestige' university.EducationJon Bernardes
Third chance for access exam. (ambiguous entrance exam to higher education in Portugal)EducationPatricia Leon
Title fight for freedom. (government endeavour to retain control over higher education institutions)EducationLord Simon
To build on the ruins of war. (Osijek University's problems during the Yugoslav war)EducationChristopher Bennett
Trapper comes out of the cold to teach. (Canada's community teachers)EducationJim Boothroyd
Tribal conflicts; the current split in Nigeria's universities.EducationMartyn Kelly
Uneasy days of Guns N' Roses; morale is flagging at the Belgrade sit-in.EducationTim Judah
Universal fixer with a penchant for perversity. (elusive enzyme essential for all life)EducationJohn Postgate
Universal truths. (doubt about the universe and outer space)EducationRay Jayawardhana
Vintage month for trying a new wheeze. (the French Revolution's attempt at a decimal calendar)EducationMaurice Crosland
Virtual knowledge. (multimedia) (survey)EducationGabriel Jacobs
Virtual libraries; how the Bodleian has managed to increase access to remote databases.EducationRichard Gartner
What's wrong with gongs? (suggested reform of the honours system)EducationRobert Blackburn
When one means more than two. (many single parent families manage to cope with pressure)EducationLesley Oppenheim
Where next for the war game? (need for a war to restore President Bush's appeal before election)EducationGerald L. Houseman
Where there's a Will. (Thatcher government's response to AIDS)EducationVirginia Berridge
Who is the brightest of them all? (evolution of intelligence)EducationNicholas Mackintosh
Who will lead the charge or sound the retreat? (the end of the Council for National Academic Awards)EducationHarold Silver, John Brennan
Why did they do it?; bombing German cities at the end of the war.EducationGerard J. de Groot
Why Japan scorns MBAs. (rejection of Master in Business Administration qualification)EducationJohn Greenlees
Wise council born to spread Greek myths. (creation of a Greek cultural foundation)EducationMakki Marseilles
Yellow journals, faded ideas. (emphasis on academic publication may be misplaced)EducationA.D. Harvey
Young radicals wage war of words in China. (call for economic reform)EducationGeoffrey Parkins
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