Book move may net VAT
Joe Sinyor (THES, October 6) is correct to assume that the collapse of the Net Book Agreement will have a marginal impact on the price of core textbooks. My concern is that in the short to medium...
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Dr Peccadillo and assorted sins
The plagiarist, the fraudster and the cheat may be rare in academe, but that still leaves scope for some dubious practices, says Harold Hillman. Scientific fraud has been going on since the Greeks...
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Open debate on support
This week The THES is publishing in full a document drawn up by a group of student union officers on the funding of higher education (pages 8 and 9). The THES has long argued that students must be...
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Sights for sore eyes in Seattle
There is only one thing worse than arriving home with jet lag - arriving home with jet lag to find you have been comprehensively burgled while you have been away. I am not trying to let my experience...
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Across the Finnish line
This week will see the state visit to Britain of the Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari and his wife Eeva. The ripples from this four-day event should encourage the expanding academic traffic between...
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Bell hooks is no lone black voice
You were right to profile bell hooks as one of the outstanding black public intellectuals in the United States at this time (THES, October 13). However, it is inaccurate to describe her "as the only...
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Yesterday's solution on lecturer pay
I used to support the creation of an independent pay review body for higher education staff as does M. G. Roberts of Association of University and College Lecturers (THE , letters, October 13)....
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Speaking up for the ordinary Ulster view
Reviewers should declare their interests before they wield, let alone grind, their axes, and now that tit-for-tat killing may have ended in Northern Ireland perhaps there can be a cessation of tit-...
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Vocational success is OU's open secret
In his article on Labour's online university (THES, October 13), Tony Tysome quotes Josh Hillham from the Institute of Public Policy Research as saying that the Open University has "a poor track...
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T.S.Eliot's wasted wit
Roy Harris must try to be less flat-footed about T. S. Eliot (THES, October 13). The lines about St Mary Woolnoth keeping the hours "With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine" offer a wry comment...
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Melting pot comes to boil
The recent assassination attempt on Kiro Gligorov, president of Macedonia, revealed the potential volatility of the small Balkan country, which became independent from Yugoslavia four years ago. It...
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Private colleges put down roots
A third of universities in Russia are now privately run, according to Incorvuz, an organisation campaigning for greater educational plurality in the Confederation of Independent States and the Baltic...
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Students entitled to free prescriptions
Following the article "Poor students rush for advice" (THES, September 22) our advice centre has been flooded with enquiries and calls from students who wished to know why we had not made them aware...
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A classical dilemma
The ideal classicist is surely one who understands "the linguistic minutiae of the text" (THES, September 29), but who can also employ modern literary critical and anthropological theory in his or...
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Dangerous elision of European Liaison
We have read with interest the contribution of Diana Green about "Europe's Quality Wave" (THES, September 13), in which she refers to the quality audit programme of the CRE (Association of European...