Number of ironies (1 of 2)
There is magnificent irony in Chris Ormell's article "Putting reality back into the equation" (20 January) when he declares that "Mathematics tends to be...misunderstood", as his own profound...
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Number of ironies (2 of 2)
Chris Ormell makes a number of ridiculous claims, including that pure mathematics is about nothing more than the reification of symbols, and that blind faith among mathematicians is responsible for...
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Plug loans 'haemorrhage'
More than £200 million in accumulated taxpayer fee subsidy to European Union students studying at UK universities is at risk of being written off if urgent steps are not taken to recover it.A year...
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Rewrites required
The British Film Institute plans to remove its collection from an accessible site in central London to its archive store in Berkhamsted - with no public transport running between the archive and the...
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Turning on the leading lights
Too few academics are putting themselves forward for the top jobs. Amanda Goodall argues that we must nurture talent, value achievement and pay more if we want to fill the empty chairs
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Novel forms of thought
In philosophy, logic is too often considered the only appropriate analytical instrument. Adding fiction to the toolkit can, Michael Boylan argues, offer new and illuminating ways to contemplate human...
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Shakespeare as you'll like it
Dale Salwak explains how he removes the obstacles that prevent his students connecting with the greatest writer in the English language, allowing them to fall under the Bard's spell
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Film review: Biutiful
Philip Dodd finds Javier Bardem the pivotal centre of a film about our inescapable mortality
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TV review: Hattie
Was Hattie Jacques' passion for her driver simply a response to her own self-loathing, asks Gary Day
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Odds and quads
This wedding dress and these accessories, made entirely of glass fibre, were worn by Helen Nairn Munro on the day she married W.E.S. Turner in 1943.
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27 January 2011
Primus inter pares - Academics must coax more of their own into leadership roles
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Tara Brabazon: Networking opportunities
Now is a fertile time to be conducting research among the proliferating forms of social media, writes Tara Brabazon
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Inside Higher Ed: Turning on the faculty
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
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Aberystwyth names new head
Aberystwyth University has named its new vice-chancellor.
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Graduate employers may cast net wider for recruits
Employers believe a rise in university tuition fees will result in a less diverse pool of graduates, a survey of some of the biggest graduate employers in the UK has found.