The CVCP should solve pay dispute
Academics in old universities this week began industrial action to disrupt admissions. Their case (page 14) is good. But unfortunately that does not mean anything will be done. Non-academic unions...
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Time to lay out the facts for PhDs
I was not one of those Simon Blackburn heard crying at the philosophy centre in Oxford ("Looking for a slice of the American pie", THES, July 30), but I could have been - I also failed the BPhil by...
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Time to lay out the facts for PhDs
I was surprised and disappointed with the conclusions Rebecca Stott drew in her piece about the precarious professional situation of PhD candidates ("No jobs for the boysI or girls", THES, July 16)....
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Time to lay out the facts for PhDs
Stories about the lack of quality or limited scope of PhD supervision are depressingly familiar. Perhaps one or two simple measures might resolve many of the problems, which are often based on the...
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Union ructions
I read with interest the article about Southampton University students' decision to cease their affiliation to the National Union of Students ("Row erupts over vote to break from NUS", THES, July 30...
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Union ructions
It was disappointing that the report into the decision by Southampton's student union to disaffiliate from the NUS did not mention that the union held a referendum on the issue as recently as March...
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America's real reds
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones's review of M. J. Heale's McCarthy's Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 1935-1965 (THES, June 18), like virtually all books on McCarthy, fails to acknowledge...
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Sore points
Claire Hale states ("Cutting Edge", THES, July 9 ) in reference to pressure-sore assessment tools "our research has considerable implications for practice and education alike". The cause of pressure...
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Lustre of clusters
We would be sorry if readers inferred from your leader ("Clusters at the mercy of planners", THES, August 6) that South Cambridgeshire District Council is blind to the economic opportunities of...
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Derby's running well
With reference to your article concerning the Israeli Higher Education Council's (HEC) consideration of licences for British universities to award degrees ("Israel puts Derby on hold", THES, August 6...
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UCAS set to field extra calls
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is braced for a flood of extra calls as lecturers target next week's A-level results. UCAS fears that the summer admissions and clearing process,...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a book that features a xanthic thoroughfare: " Dorothy lived in the midst of the great kansas...
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How Hamlet and Lear got along with the sumo and the samurai
Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage
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Intimate sketches of the Third Spain
¡Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War
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Higher Channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week If agricultural history deserves a higher profile, then Sussex University's Alun Howkins is providing it. In the final...