Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (4)
A few days before reading Frank Furedi's article, I heard a senior academic explain this year's increased focus on research methodology training to a group of new PhDs. Most of your time in your...
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Letter: Pure religious hatred
This letter is intended to be an incitement to religious hatred. I believe it is not yet a crime to encourage people to despise religion and almost all it stands for, but as time is running out for...
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Letter: Technical hitches
So the new Engineering and Technology Board will persuade universities to train more incorporated engineers and technicians (For the record, THES , September 28). Although there is much overlap in...
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Letter: Get over the age barrier
The bulge of over-50s will soon lead to a dearth of academics and is seen as a problem ("Ageing staff cohort threatens expansion", THES , October 5). In strict demographic terms this is correct, but...
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Letter: Long-lived labour
Patrick Joyce has long been predicting the demise of labour history ("Marx moves over to make room for new lot of rebels", THES , October 12), but we're still here. Admittedly in the age of new...
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Letter: Looming gap year (1)
Have education ministers Margaret Hodge or Estelle Morris planned the financial support British universities will need to survive the crisis engineered by telling students not to come to university...
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Letter: Looming gap year (2)
Surely no one would disagree that students "deserve better treatment in the changing education system" (Letters, THES , October 5)? In my experience, lecturers show a lot of sympathy towards students...
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Master class in 'cheating'
David Hockney believes that the only way the past masters achieved near photographic quality in some paintings was through optical trickery. Martin Kemp reports. It is so realistic that it looks like...
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Digital debate that is striving to 'dumb up' democracy
The abominable media coverage of major world events inspired Anthony Barnett to create a forum to encourage democratic debate. Huw Richards reports on opendemocracy.net, a digital hub for scholars...
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Lifting the blarney stone that held down history
Myth-making and storytelling have helped to repackage Ireland's recent history. Sean Coughlan meets the man who is determined to reveal the truth beneath the idealised vision Storytelling has a deep-...
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DNA and other letters
James Watson made his name with the discovery of the double helix in 1953. In his latest book, he draws on personal correspondence to recall what happened next. Jon Turney reports. How pleasant to be...
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Latest UK news
Female academics face discrimination Women, including female academics, suffer discrimination in trying to commercialise their ideas and discoveries, according to a new report from the Industrial...
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Latest international news
Petition to reinstate Harvard officers' corps Nine hundred Harvard alumni have signed a petition seeking the return to campus of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps 32 years after it was abolished...
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From today's UK papers
Carey only second double Booker The Australian-born novelist Peter Carey won the £21,000 Booker Prize, fiction's most prestigious award, for the second time last night. His tale of Australian outlaw...
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Deadline: 09/11/2001