First Impressions
This week's competition, to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a succ s de scandale that was considered dangerously immoral and banned in many countries: "As you see, my dear Sophie,...
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Mirrors that reveal our past selves
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology
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Compromises of tuning
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care)
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The University and College Union. To: All UCU members. As you will be aware, this union recently decided not to include photographs of the candidates who are contesting a variety of union posts...
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'The victim who fails tenure procedure may never know the charges. There is similar justice in Guantanamo'
One of the pleasures of academic life - at least, one of the potential pleasures - is civilised argument. You can - or you should - quarrel over the reading of evidence or the interpretation of data...
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Leader: Online criticism is acceptable, but abuse is not
What, if anything, can universities do to protect themselves and their staff from the phenomenal growth of cyber-criticism made by students? There are a couple of interrelated issues here. The first...
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V-cs deserve a rise? That's rich 1
The vice-chancellors' pay rises (News, February 23) could significantly demoralise other university staff. As Adrian Furnham of University College London noted recently: "The power of money to...
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V-cs deserve a rise? That's rich 2
Not only did Sir Howard Newby become vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England in 2006 on a salary of £201,000 and bits, Lady Sheila, his wife, became assistant vice-chancellor at UWE...
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V-cs deserve a rise? That's rich 3
A greater economy of words could be possible with Times Higher editorials. You spend an entire column asking if the vice-chancellors' pay hike is justified when a simple "no" would have sufficed....
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Ethics before arms
Open letter sent to Jan Hommen, chairman of Reed Elsevier. We are an international group of academics who are extremely concerned about Reed Elsevier's involvement in organising major arms fairs in...
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Frustrated of Reading
My colleague Anthony Keeble is reported as saying that he has "no idea" why applications to science courses at Reading University have climbed 10 per cent ("Applications surge elates universities",...
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Taboo, take three
Taboo, take three As you have published two letters in successive weeks complaining about my review of Forbidden Words by Keith Allan and Kate Burridge (Books, February 9), I would like to put the...
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Postgrad pluses
Your article "QAA pans uneven postgrad support" (February 16) on the Quality Assurance Agency's review of research degree programmes (RDPs) presented a selective and unrepresentative picture of the...
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Day job is just right
For the first time, I last week e-mailed a columnist to thank him for his contribution (Gary Day, February 16). I've always found that the more you expect of students, the more you get; and it seemed...
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North Eastern muscle
Your article "South secures research cash" (February 16) unfortunately omits any mention of medical research in the North East and focuses entirely on the failure of Manchester's bid for a new...