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A right royal epic of life and death
One of the famous cases of identity theft in English law concerns the "Tichborne claimant". In the 1870s, Arthur Orton pretended to be Roger Tichborne of Hampshire and was supported in his claim by a...
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Laurie Taylor Column
POPPLETON EVENING NEWS Town celebrates yet another university A shock government announcement means that Poppleton can start celebrating the arrival of its third university. Within a year, Poppleton...
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Leader: Time for Oxford to adopt the Ivy League model
The often lengthy period between the naming and arrival of a new vice-chancellor can be a dead time for a university. But the debate now raging at Oxford ensures that there will be no such hiatus...
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Leader: Does the minister need a higher education?
A new debate began in the Common Room section of The THES website this week, when a reader asked: "Should a higher education minister have had a higher education?" It is a question that has been...
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Abrasive player who hit sour notes
Few in higher education will shed tears over the exit of Margaret Hodge, reports Alison Goddard When Margaret Hodge visited Cambridge University recently, she was greeted by protesters. They dusted...
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First left, second right then U-turn
George Orwell is claimed by all political sides as the voice of (their) truth. This is ironic given that Orwell opposed those whose voices did not accord with his frequent changes of opinion, says...
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What are universities for?
What are universities for? The question at the heart of the academic mission has been given added urgency by education secretary Charles Clarke. Gordon Graham, professor of philosophy at Aberdeen...
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Our work is to free talent in the project of humanity
What are universities for? The question at the heart of the academic mission has been given added urgency by education secretary Charles Clarke. Ben Okri, novelist and poet, says higher education is...
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Society will never survive on bread and circuses alone
What are universities for? The question at the heart of the academic mission has been given added urgency by education secretary Charles Clarke. Gordon Graham, professor of philosophy at Aberdeen...
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Travels in time put flesh on forebears
To comprehend the lives of the early humans who laid the foundations of civilisations, Steven Mithen sent a fictional observer to visit them Late one afternoon last October, I climbed a hill in...
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Horses for (university) courses 1
To accuse new universities of "bureaucratic practice" as Frank Furedi does ("Why I believe new universities mean lower academic standards", THES , June 13) and to suggest that this has contributed to...
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Horses for (university) courses 2
Frank Furedi's anxiety that "whenever politicians decide to expand the definition of a university, the quality of academic education deteriorates" is reminiscent of the alarm of propertied men about...
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Horses for (university) courses 3
Sir Derek Roberts' narrow view on improving London's poor innovation record ("Narrow focus key to London innovation", THES , June 13) does the capital no favours. Ignoring the potential of...
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Horses for (university) courses 4
Sir Richard Sykes' consistent position that there should be no more than five research-intensive universities ("Teaching-focused 'not worthy' of university title", THES , June 6) is to be admired...