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Duty is in the face of the other
The End of Human Rights
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Laurie Taylor
" Academics should be brought back to the heart of university management because executive rule is failing " - THES report on speech by Michael Shattock to Universities UK Conference Another coffee,...
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Letter: Flimsy comparison
Likening a DJ to a cinema projectionist is bizarre (Books, THES , November 2). If two films projected onto the same screen managed to be both coherent and different from their individual parts, it...
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Letter: In brief (1)
Your article on rational drug design (Features: research, THES , October 26) gave a good summary of current thinking about chemical modelling, given increasing costs in moving drugs through the...
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Letter: In brief (2)
What exactly is it that we would travel through if we time-travelled? (Features, THES , November 2). The concept of time seems to depend on our assumptions about changes in the condition and...
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Letter: In brief (3)
Any book on cultural studies has proved a red rag to reviewer Fred Inglis over the years, and mine was no exception (Books, THES , November 2). He missed two points. First, the book does not work...
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Letter: Unity rules, OK?
Michael Shattock's pronouncements that academics and managers should share governance of universities shocked me deeply ("Call for shared governance", THES , November 2). Does he mean that university...
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Letter: G-whiz, you're smart
Some people are smarter than others. But how unimaginative to be involved in the accountancy of "how much smarter". This g factor "shines through" for Robert Plomin (Features, THES , November 2) like...
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Letter: Some choice facts (1)
Your editorial criticising the Association of University Teachers for "restricting choice" in the election of a new general secretary shows a total lack of understanding of trade union law and equal...
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Letter: Some choice facts (2)
From your comments on the appointment of an AUT general secretary, we can expect that next time there is a vacancy for The THES editor, there will be no interviewing panel. All those who fancy the...
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Letter: Positive discrimination is unfair (1)
The Equal Opportunities Commission is correct in saying that positive discrimination is illegal under the Sex Discrimination Act ("Macho, white culture to go", THES , November 2). But positive action...
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Letter: Positive discrimination is unfair (2)
It is a sad truism that the history of equality and diversity policy is one of two steps forward, one step back. I am sure I am not alone in welcoming Cambridge University's decision to finally...
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Letter: Positive discrimination is unfair (3)
Women in science who do not have children are more vociferous than those who do, it appears ("Science and the family don't mix", THES , October 12). But in physics, a majority of the women who hold...
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Letter: Generic aspirations?
Sam Leinster states that the titles of nurse and doctor will become obsolete in the brave new world of healthcare because practitioners will be identified not by professional label but by their...