How to break that cheating art
It's a whole new world of plagiarism and we need regulation fit for the 21st century, argues Wilfried Decoo. Modern technology allows a new level of cheating on written assignments. Whatever the...
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Is this all universities are for? The life of the mind is more important than ever, says Grenville Wall. Given the government's desire to increase the age participation rate in higher education to...
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Wider participation may reinforce social exclusion The government's widening participation policies may have the unintended consequence of reinforcing social exclusion, according to research...
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A city founded on a C-list Trojan's back
Troy Between Greece and Rome
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Myth-making behind the scholar of mythology
The Invention of Jane Harrison
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Taking Klee's line for a walk
Keith Hartley admires a painter who made reality out of the abstract. In the postwar period Paul Klee had an enormous influence on British art and, in particular, on teaching in British art schools....
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A body of work for everybody
The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
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Ethical splits in manipulating life
The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
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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 man who once commanded a rocket ship: "He was struggling in every direction, he...
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Magnetism that is sure to get your pulse racing
Spin Dynamics
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Laurie Taylor Column
Dear Mr/Ms/Doctor/Professor. Thank you for returning your application form for the Media and Cultural Studies Conference to be held at the University of Poppleton from March 25-. A single room (R2365...
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Letter: End the half-hearted tinkering 1
The second-class status of vocational education will not be changed by more half-hearted tinkering as recommended in the green paper on 14-19 re-organisation ("New diploma flags up Morris revamp",...
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Letter: End the half-hearted tinkering 2
Sir Howard Newby, in evidence to the Public Accounts Committee, has rightly drawn attention to the problem of students having studied different topics in their mathematics A level ("First-years need...
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Letter: Feeling physics envy?
Roy Harris writes in his review of Ray Jackendoff's The Foundations of Language (Books, THES , February 15) that "the generativist horse never bolted: it was found dead in its stall". I agree with...