Does Labour come up smelling of roses
New Labour's mantra at the last election was that things could only get better. Certainly, higher education has changed significantly since Tony Blair swept to power, but is the sector, and the staff...
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Growth is blamed for fall in standards
More than half of academics think higher education expansion should be halted because academic standards are suffering. An ICM poll of 501 lecturers, senior lecturers, readers, professors and other...
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ICM poll: academics' voting intentions
Voting intentions 2001 1997 1992 Labour 42% 51% 50% Conservative 5% 8% 15% Liberal Democrat 15% 17% 18% Scottish National Party 1% 2% 2% Plaid Cymru not available 1% 0.2% Green Party 1% 0...
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Laurie Taylor
" Higher education is now second only to catering in the proportion of non-permanent staff employed " - THES editorial . April Next. Ah yes. David Pringle. Do sit down. Now, I understand that you...
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Letter: Voting with their feet
On the eve of the general election, politicians are apparently worried. The level of abstention on polling day risks reaching catastrophic proportions for a country that boasts of being a model...
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Letter: Star sign of the times
The introduction of vedic astrology in India ("'Medieval' minister wants Indian students to be taught vedic astrology", THES , May 4) comes as no surprise to those who have watched the ruling BJP...
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Letter: Guessing games
Gareth Holsgrove considers the merits of multiple-choice questions ("What is the right choice?", THES , May 4) and in particular the problems of negative scoring. But there is another method for...
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Letter: ALiC at Goldsmiths
Mandy Garner's excellent article on the Action Learning in the Community (ALiC) project ("Going straight... to university", THES , May 4) states that some of our classes take place at East Greenwich...
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Letter: Archives, Anatolia and Armenia (1)
Access to national archives is not an automatic right ("Sealed Turkish archives support genocide claim", THES , April ). The UK and almost all western governments keep some national archives...
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Letter: Archives, Anatolia and Armenia (2)
The Ottoman archives in Istanbul are fully open, and archives from the Republican period are available in the prime minister's Republican archives in Ankara. The only archives not so readily...
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Letter: Archives, Anatolia and Armenia (3)
In November 1918, after the signing of the Armistice of Mudros, the Allies (mainly the British) occupied Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman state, and later arrested the members of the Ottoman...
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Letter: Grants solution
It is hardly surprising most people think maintenance grants are better than debt ("Give students back grants, urge voters", THES , May 4). Unless asked who is supposed to provide the money for...
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Leader: US heads off on the high road to disaster
Humans have been altering the environment for centuries, and the changes they have made mean that we live on a planet capable of supporting billions of us. But as our reviews show this week, these...
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Leader: Party war cries ring out but fail to hit the right note
Next month's general election has many guises: a surrogate referendum on the Euro; the start of the Tory leadership contest; or the doorway to a second Labour term, when its radical intentions will...
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Climate of death in colonial politics
Brian Fagan says lessons should be learnt from 19th-century disasters. Global warming caused by humans, El Niños, monsoon failures and unprecedented rainfall in Europe - we live in environmentally...