Alternative view 2
The criteria for the Laing chair in complementary medicine at the University of Exeter currently held by Edzard Ernst include the following:"to provide leadership within the national scene in the...
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Taking up poll position 1
The article "Where has all the passion gone?" (26 June) is interesting but the Opinionpanel poll is certainly not "the first poll of UK university students' political affiliations", even though its...
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Taking up poll position
Reading the article on the alleged decline in student radicalism and Paul Whiteley's views on the lack of Marxists in his classes these days, I am tempted to suggest that your reporter should get out...
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Raising the alarm
Sir Colin Campbell's claim that the arrests of the "Nottingham Two" is not a matter of academic freedom (Letters, 19 June) is not acceptable. He essentially admits the charges laid at his door by...
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Looking on the bright side
I'd like to set a few matters straight in response to Duncan Wu's rather dismissive review of my book Sunshine (19 June). I could live with the jibes about the use of the first person and the "...
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Knowledge is power
The Confederation of British Industry press release embargoed until 23 June ("The week in higher education", 26 June) came as a surprise to many of us since director-general Richard Lambert was...
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No NSS flag-waving here
National Union of Students president Wes Streeting (Letters, 26 June) fails to engage with Lee Harvey's criticisms of the National Student Survey ("Jumping through hoops on a white elephant", 12 June...
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Green shoots
Galvanised by last year's inaugural league table, universities across the UK have been busily redrafting environment policies and cutting energy consumption - but there's still a long way to go....
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The state of the union
The shrinking pool of potential students is putting new pressures on US universities. But if some are learning to adapt, others seem to have a 'nascent death wish'. Jon Marcus reports
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3 July 2008
Going green - How eco-friendly is your university?
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To boldly go… in well-trodden footsteps
Yet another meeting, yet another report that fails to break new ground. Gloria Monday fights boredom by totting up the number of legs in the room
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Â鶹 and far away
Tara Brabazon on the soundtrack to life on a continent’s edge
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Open doors and grand traditions
Yongnian Zheng on the role of China's ancient ethical system in an age of growth and reform
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Franco and Hitler, Spain, Germany, and World War II
The author of this book is a distinguished US historian who greatly influenced students of my generation during the Franco dictatorship. This relatively short work, appropriately and kindly dedicated...
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In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism
I am going to try but I am not quite sure of this. I don't think I know how to write without being intimate, without exposing myself and my real feelings about what is going on around me and I am not...