Letter: Face the facts
Reading your survey of academics' opinions is like opening a time capsule and suggests there is widespread reluctance to face up to the future ("Growth is blamed for fall in standards", THES , May 11...
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Letter: Guard of honour
We should resist the temptation to join the bash-the-Quality-Assurance-Agency bandwagon (Letters, THES , May 4). University staff are asked to describe what is included in a degree and how the...
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Letter: Hoops, sticks and Treasury tricks (1)
It comes as no surprise that there is mounting resistance to the latest review of teaching and research time ("Dons rebel over onerous review", THES , May 11). Natfhe members are probably correct in...
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Leader: New Hefce boss is on a mergers mission
Even prime ministers have to win an election before they start to have power and influence. But Sir Howard Newby, who has not yet arrived at his next job running the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Leader: To educate more adults, start with the employers
When governments think about education, they usually see it in terms of providing a workforce that can contribute to economic success. This is understandable since the economy is bound to be their...
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Plenty of profile but a dearth of results
Andrew Whiten casts a sceptical eye over the popular field of memetics. The idea of "memes" was born in Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and so is already a quarter-century old. Dawkins spent most...
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Claims on armies of the dead
The Tarim Mummies
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The first Word but not the last
Discipleship and Imagination - Tradition and Imagination
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Hymns in full swing before West arrived
A History of the Church in Africa
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Musical pacifists hit troubled times
The Biographical Tradition in Sufism - The Chishtis
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A lesson for Thwackum
Religion and Community
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist who committed suicide: "It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually...
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Fundamentalism: just a personality type?
The Battle for God
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Substance abuse and what we get out of it
Intoxicating Minds
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From wax tablets to computers
Metaphors of Memory