Events
WINDOWS ON SPACE The University of Leicester will be exhibiting work by Joyce Markie based on astronomical images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The exhibition "Windows on Space" will be held...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL D. C. Wraith, senior research fellow at the University of Cambridge, to the chair in pathological sciences; R. J. Smith, lecturer in econometrics at the University of Cambridge...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Paul Brown, welfare rights officer in Angus, has become national co-ordinator for students with special needs. The post is funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council...
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Post-results entry hitch
Vice chancellors have put the brakes on plans for a post-qualifications admissions system that could have been in place by 1997. The steering group charged by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Oxford simply after the best
Oxford is scrapping its fourth-term entrance exam. Applicants will now go through the same proceedure as all other students though tests may still be set at interview. The decision was not taken to...
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Irish government to fund students studying in EU
Irish students studying in Britain and other EU countries are to get maintenance grants from the Irish government. This was announced last week in the budget which also confirmed the government's...
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Shephard purges governors
Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, has accepted two damning reports into college mismanagement and sacked several governors. However, Mrs Shephard said the behaviour of governors at...
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Into the minds of management
Lucy Hodges talks to Erica Shoenberger, (right) a geographer who believes that corporate decisions have as much to do with boardroom culture as economic facts. Erica Schoenberger's favourite reading...
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The rational anthem
For political scientist Eric Shaw the wholesale application of rational choice theory to political behaviour is deeply flawed - and the earliest warnings of its limitations came from its pioneer. "...
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The rational anthem
Criticism of rational choice theory is nothing new to Gordon Tullock, who has a joint appointment in economics and political science at the University of Arizona at Tucson. "They (the critics) have...
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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...