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Some people are born great, while others just thrust it upon themselves
The Creating Brain
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book about God: "In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The Office of the President (formerly Vice-Chancellor) Subject: Conflict of interest A senior manager at the University of Northampton has recently insisted that staff should provide an...
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Alan Ryan
Universities are quite dull places in which to work. In terms of excitement, they compare badly with intensive care units or operating theatres, let alone the trading pits of major commodity...
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Leader: Time to focus on the real numbers
Another report, another debate on the Government's 50 per cent target. The Higher Education Policy Institute says there is little chance that half of all young people will enter university or college...
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Leader: Heels dig in all around
The Association of University Teachers has declared itself "astonished" at the employers' refusal to hold negotiations next week unless industrial action is suspended. It should not be: both sides...
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Chemistry cuts will prove toxic 1
Investing in strong disciplines such as biochemistry while simultaneously eliminating the foundation on which this discipline is based exposes a crass ignorance at Sussex University of the role of...
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Chemistry cuts will prove toxic 2
Peter Atkins hit many nails firmly on the head in his opinion article about the demise of chemistry ("Stop counting beans, start planting trees", March 17). How can any educational establishment dare...
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Chemistry cuts will prove toxic 3
It can be of no surprise that yet another chemistry department is closing. And it is some vice-chancellors who must share in the blame, although not quite for the reasons given by Peter Atkins. The...
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Chemistry cuts will prove toxic 4
A decade ago we saw the closure of a series of physics departments, and attrition within the survivors continues. Now it seems to be the turn of chemistry. This cannot be good for a modern country...
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Manifesto for Marx 1
The fact that Alison Wolf's students are indifferent to Marx's theories (Columnist, March 17) may say less about the theories and more about the times in which her students have grown up. During this...
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Manifesto for Marx 2
Alison Wolf's view of Marx's faded relevance is too narrow. My English literature students are interested in Marxism not because they find it a political gospel, but because it offers a bolder...
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Manifesto for Marx 3
In her article Alison Wolf equated "Marx" with "Marxism". How can someone of her standing make such a basic error? One answer would be that she has an agenda that aims to discredit critical theories...
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Proud to speak out 1
I refuse to apologise to Tariq Modood or Sara Wajid ("Secular, liberal and doggedly fundamentalist", March 17) for Western universities being cathedrals of secular liberalism. If this offends Muslim...