A bogus thing of scraps and smears
Last Friday morning, a Business and Technology Education Council quality audit team called on a further education college -- a normal institution in which thousands of students follow courses and...
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Benign dictators need academics
I have read John Rear's well-crafted apology for the new university managements (THES, October 21). It is a fine piece of rhetoric. I also attended Friday's meeting of the Council for Academic...
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Benign dictators need academics
Thank you for your leader "University Democracy" (THES, October 21), referring to the colloquium held that day by the Council for Academic Autonomy. The purpose of the council is to ensure that there...
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Whither National Audit Office neutrality?
Recent events at the University of Huddersfield prompt questions about the independence of the National Audit Office, which earlier this week presented its interim report on the Huddersfield affair...
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We are not amused
Your article "Lecturers' hours deal for Natfhe" (THES, October 14) describes Roger Ward, Colleges Employers Forum's chief executive, as "very amused" by this college's collective agreement on...
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An Orwellian misrepresentation
My collection of essays and journalism, Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics, seems to have upset the Tory ex-MP Sir Robert Rhodes James badly (THES, October 15...
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Intellectual maps are a cul-de-sac
Pamela King and Angela Barrs write (THES, October 14) that "An undergraduate course ought to inculcate a habit of independent critical reading". I could not agree more, but my heart sank on reading...
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Prospect of fool's gold
This year the 16th congress of the International Political Science Association was held in Berlin. The congresses take place every three years with about 2,000 participants from every part of the...
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Painting by numbers?
Controversy over the existence of a canon of great works has long divided the world of literature, yet a similar if less public dispute bisects the world of art. In an attempt to open up this debate...
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Dilemma of kissing cousins
The science of human genetics appears to be taking a "social" turn, with the blessings of Britain's biggest backers of biomedical research. The Medical Research Council has begun to fund studies into...
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Research masters re-routed
The Office of Science and Technology this week dropped its proposal to make a one-year masters' course the first step to postgraduate research training for most students. The proposal was made in...
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Tutu calls for fees waiver
Desmond Tutu, the archbishop of Cape Town, this week called on universities in the developed world to continue to offer free places for South African students . In London to receive an honorary...
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Scots tongue `should not forgot'
The Scots language should be given a statutory legal basis to conserve and promote Scotland's heritage, according to Magnus Fladmark, director of the Robert Gordon University Heritage Unit. Professor...
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A lady fond of dead white males
If the Republicans have an answer to Hillary Clinton, it is Lynne Cheney. As chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the Bush regime, she stirred up concerns about political...
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A charm spinning in blood
There are many films which include images of the swastika; in Leni Riefenstahl's notorious Triumph of the Will the city of Nuremberg is transformed into a "swastika world". Less well known, however,...