Are radical journals selling out?
Well, they’re not doing badly. But in a world in which capitalism is in crisis, the Left is moribund, activists are slick professionals and rebellion drives sales, Alastair Bonnett envisages a new...
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Democratic experiments
Science affects everyone on the planet, so how and to what extent should the public help set its agenda? Jon Turney looks to the notion of vox populi research for some ideas
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Bloggers raise alarm over sleep of reason
The standfirst of "You can't tell me anything" ( October) says that "the gleefully bull-headed ignorance shown by politicians, bloggers and others" suggests that "scientific evidence and scholarly...
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Intelligence agency
Which?'s intention to move into the world of higher education information provision has caused something of a stir (The week in higher education, October).We know that choosing a university is a...
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Misshapen and incapable
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council claims to have consulted the scientific community regarding its "shaping capability" policy aimed at maintaining the UK's global research...
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Galaxy quest starts small
It was good to see "citizen science" featured in Times Higher Education ("Powered by the people", 20 October), but the article's claim that the vast majority of initiatives in this area are American-...
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Identity theft
The philosopher Gilbert Ryle once sought to explain the notion of a "category mistake" by recalling a tourist in Oxford complaining that he had been round the colleges but still hadn't found the...
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Always on the menu
In "Sector: too many cooks will spoil regulatory broth" ( October), Pam Tatlow, chief executive of Million+, says that proposals to give the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Quality...
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Nightmare scenarios
Using fiction to satirise perceptions of the current state of the academy seems to be gaining in popularity ("This REF is a deadly serious undertaking", 20 October). A couple of years ago we had the...
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The kids at Cambridge are better than all right
The head of outreach programmes at the University of Cambridge has said that students at the institution are "appreciably better" than they were 20 years ago.
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Film review: Jack Goes Boating
A restrained portrayal of love resists the clichés of romance and the New York film, says Duncan Wu
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TV review: Young Nuns
Choosing the life of a nun is not easy, finds Gary Day, but their days are filled with silence and contentment
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Friedrich Kittler, 1943-2011
One of the leading media theorists of his generation, described by a peer as "brilliant, controversial and cantankerous", has died.Friedrich Kittler was born in Rochlitz, Saxony, on 12 June 1943 and...
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Campus round-up
University of EssexMind controlPeople with severe physical disabilities who find it difficult or impossible to use joystick-operated wheelchairs may benefit from a new study. The Robotics Research...