Fight over fees
Your editorial raises the spectacle of Blair and Clarke wrestling with their own backbenchers over tuition fees (Leader, THES , December 12). It would surely add somewhat to the sum of human...
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Please fund us properly, minister 1
In his attacks on "elite" universities for perpetuating social divisions, higher education minister Alan Johnson has said he wished he had gone to university instead of leaving school at 15. Why didn...
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Please fund us properly, minister 2
Rich kids do law, poor kids do physics - is that what prime minister Tony Blair, an ex-lawyer, really wants? That is the outcome of combining Alan Johnson's belief that law courses will subsidise...
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Survey questioned
Lee Harvey is correct in his critique of the pilot National Student Survey (Soapbox, THES , December 12). The survey will be expensive for institutions, use intrusive methods of surveying students...
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Acts of treason
Top-class researchers do not always make excellent teachers as Stephen Hill asserts ("100 new chairs being created to lift RAE scores", THES , December 12). Cutting-edge researchers are often too...
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Have a say in science? 1
Lord Winston may have gone too far in his suggestion that science cede control to the public, but some responses to him simply proved his point ("Critics lambast Winston's idea", THES , December 12...
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Have a say in science? 2
The "democratic" proposal from Lord Winston, who enjoys television celebrity status, is in fact thoroughly reactionary, as demonstrated by the whole history of science. Science, scientific facts and...
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In praise of jerks and squelches
Lust has for too long been unfairly maligned. Far from being a sin, it should be celebrated as a virtue, argues Simon Blackburn When, 18 months ago, I was asked to give a public lecture on one of the...
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What a year of top-ups and downs!
Who were the academy's winners and sinners in 2003? Michael North runs through the roll-call It's the end of the year and what a year for higher education. It started with the furore about top-up...
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Dark tales from the border
As the Modern Language Association prepares for its annual convention in San Diego, December -30, The THES looks at key themes and contributors In his films, Paul Espinosa documents the uneasy...
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A clear riposte to her critics and enemies
As the Modern Language Association prepares for its annual convention in San Diego, December -30, The THES looks at key themes and contributors Stung by the attacks on her notoriously difficult...
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Dead men walking get the outraged writing
As the Modern Language Association prepares for its annual convention in San Diego, December -30, The THES looks at key themes and contributors Opposition to judicial killing has a long literary...
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The X-mas files
The THES serves up six pages of reflections on some of the changes that have been making many people in our society feel increasingly anxious and frightened A harried head of departmentswamped by...
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Stay in for the news and you'll never go back out
The THES serves up six pages of reflections on some of the changes that have been making many people in our society feel increasingly anxious and frightened TV journalism is making people unduly...
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Social bonds can withstand most bombs
The THES serves up six pages of reflections on some of the changes that have been making many people in our society feel increasingly anxious and frightened Terrorism aimed at a divided society will...