Locking horns with welfare foe
It has been a difficult two weeks for Brunel University. Not only has The THES given David Marsland more free publicity for his latest book on the faults of the welfare system (THES, May 17), but a...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
David Marsland's continuing attempt to portray the welfare state as an unmitigated disaster is, as usual, wide of the mark. Although it has a number of shortcomings, the post-1945 welfare state has...
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Locking horns with welfare foe
David Marsland's article on the British welfare state deserves to be widely read. It is one of the most vivid caricatures of the bankrupt (and tired) conservative thinking that I have encountered in...
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Victims of a bureaucracy bash
Richard Davies says much that is true in his swingeing critique of Italian universities (THES, April 26). Indeed, they are badly in need of reform. But he omits to say much else that is also true,...
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Knowledge goes out to market
Developments in information and communications technology mean that knowledge has become divorced from organisations and places. In future, people will use knowledge where it is, not where it can be...
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Vulnerable but certainly not alone
I do not recognise myself or my writing in the comments (THES ,May 17) that Sarah Coakley's critics have been "vociferous"; that "post-Christian feminists such as Daphne Hampson I vehemently reject...
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