Tooley put to the test
JAMES Tooley's Education Research - A Critique is a polemic masquerading as research, a triumph of inconsistency, incoherences and bad faith (THES, July 24). It is astonishing that the school...
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Transfers help take teams to top
CAN ANYONE explain to me what is wrong with an academic transfer market? Does anyone argue that the transfer market in football, which facilitates the rise of a handful of top clubs, should be...
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Transfers help take teams to top
EXTERNAL assessment of research in higher education (and indeed teaching and administration) is essential, but leaves much to be desired. Making the research assessment exercise fair, open and...
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Wellcome priorities
IT IS indeed welcome that the government's comprehensive spending review has released a much needed extra Pounds 600 million for research infrastructure in universities (THES, July 24). The influence...
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Don's Diary
Monday Back in berserkly Berkeley for six weeks of reading and writing at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, one of my favourite places.The sun ricochets off the white stone of Wheeler Hall...
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Goodwill eroded by public pay sacrifices
It will take some time to assess the impact of government spending plans for universities. Is it all smoke and mirrors or a push towards real change? Universities are not thought to be a priority...
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Service benefits everyone
Many universities have mission statements that commit the institution to community service as well as to teaching and research. It is not always clear what priority community service rates - in many...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author who was accused of penning a novel of "scandalous notoriety" when...
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Detour through deviance ends at a camp site
Queer Forster
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Anodyne nuns and peppy pre-Normans
The Oxford Companion to Irish History
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Highs and lows amid the groves
A History of the University in Europe - A History of the University of Oxford - A History of the University of Cambridge
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The colossus of runs
W. G. Grace
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No Homer before breakfast
Classics Transformed
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Friendly way to science
Lancelot Hobgen, Scientific Humanist
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Art to tempt the Ming consumer
Art in China - Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China