Apart from other volk
For Andre Brink literature played a large part in the dismantling of apartheid. Below is an excerpt from his Amnesty Lecture 'Writer as witch' and on the right Simon Targett speaks to the man himself...
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Further violence
With regard to my article on violence in last week's THES: those interested in more detailed epistemological and scientific arguments which underlie the critique of what I call "neurogenetic...
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Small bundles of convenience
Carole Ulanowsky is outraged at the way we package children to fit in with our lives. Increasingly, from careers to cross-channel ferries, children are slotted into arrangements put together for...
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Grave mistakes
Tony Walter argues that it is time that the British turned their attention to their overcrowded cemeteries. Christmas, 1994: Corina lost her struggle against cancer. She very much wanted to be buried...
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The rational anthem
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...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. This is it - the day I submit my thesis after four years of (mostly) hard work. Spend the morning investigating "how animals think". Today's subjects are Ramblie, a Jersey x South Devon...
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Trickledown, tax and training
The arguments about the funding of schools reached a new intensity last week. The Government announced that it would not fund the salary increases its own pay review bodies had recommended. This was...
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Quality with equality
The approaching anniversary of South Africa's founding democratic election offers a chance to assess the dividends for higher education. Apart from sharing the nation's relief at having broken the...
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Celebration of a brave, sane voice
The death of Senator William Fulbright has prompted a number of richly deserved tributes. At least two points should be underlined: First, for the education community, he will long be remembered as a...
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British contribution to a symbol of reconciliation
With reference to the illustration on page three in last week's issue showing Mr Peter Nardini with the design of the Great Cross which will surmount the dome of the rebuilt Frauenkirche in Dresden,...
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Difficult choice facing parents on FE question
There is obvious concern across the whole of the education sector at what is happening in the further education colleges some of which has been aired recently in The THES. As a parent of a teenager I...
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Academic rigour out of style
I have recently been to an interview for a senior post in a new university. I was turned down because my interview performance was "too intellectual and too analytical" (I have taught students of all...
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It should be cool to compute
From Frankenstein's monster to the computer `nerd', science has had a bad image. But for the sake of the nation it must attractive to young people. Let me put to you a logical proposition. Many of...
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Labor cuts first for universities
Universities in Australia are bracing themselves for a round of savage cuts in federal spending on higher education within two years. The government is under enormous pressure to reduce its outlays,...
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Race quotas become `hot-button' issue
An attempt to ban the use of race or sex as a criterion for preferential treatment in California signals further the rightward political shift in the United States. Two unknown academics, both white...