Drop by drop, a tiny trickle becomes a sea change
Keepers of the Spring
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Rich seams in black valleys
Cwmardy and We Live - The Dark Philosophers - Border Country - So Long, Hector Bebb - Country Dance
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Greeks knew how to suffer
A Companion to Tragedy
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an English novel by a writer born of Polish parents: "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet,...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Southampton Solent University has launched the world's first degree in comedy writing and performance " - The Times Higher, April 7 Good morning and welcome to your degree course in comedy. In...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
‘Strictly speaking, education and instruction are mutually exclusive. You instruct soldiers. You teach students’ There are worse things in America: shopping malls, car fetishism, capital punishment,...
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Leader: Panel must show its teeth early on to secure respect
The UK Panel for Research Integrity in Health and Biomedical Sciences is a welcome innovation. Purists will never accept that a body that is paid for by industry, the Government and the universities...
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Employers' offer is not fair game 1
It was with despair that I read your article on the assessment boycott ("Pay impasse set to hit finals", April 7). How can the employers possibly imagine that their employees will be satisfied with...
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Employers' offer is not fair game 2
Susan Bassnett, a pro vice-chancellor, states that "academic salaries are set to rise with the new framework agreement" ("Spineless except over salaries", April 7). Unless large numbers of...
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Employers' offer is not fair game 3
The Association of University Teachers and Natfhe members have grown used to hearing how well they are paid from the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association, but how disappointing to read it...
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Employers' offer is not fair game 4
We applaud Susan Bassnett's comments on the lack of action by the academic community on university issues. It is true that academics have failed to challenge ill thought out policies that have...
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On liberty and debate 1
Whatever the merits of the arguments generated by the Frank Ellis affair, it is ironic that A. C. Grayling should have enlisted John Stuart Mill in support of those on just one side of the...
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On liberty and debate 2
A. C. Grayling's commendable application of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty to the suspension and threatened sacking of Leeds University's Frank Ellis is marred by his assertion that Ellis is wrong...
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On liberty and debate 3
Richard Lynn and J. Phillipe Rushton respond as "specialists" to the debate over Frank Ellis (Letters, April 7). They are correct to point out that studies have found differences between black and...
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All-star titles 1
Rumour has it that real professors at Warwick University have taken to calling themselves "Mr" ("Get the drinks in. It's professor all round", March 31). To adopt the title indiscriminately is to...