The Canon: The Wealth of Nations. By Adam Smith
Appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow in 1751 at the age of 28, Adam Smith established his academic credentials at a young age. Yet for all his intellectual prowess as a writer,...
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The 1926 Miners' Lockout: Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield
Alan Campbell unearths the complex attitudes among mining communities during the lockout
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Music, Theater and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914
What place can there be for opera? The question is still asked today, as debates surrounding arts funding and the validity of state subventions persist. What merits funding and what does not? What...
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Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry
When one thinks of medievalism in poetry, one thinks first of the 19th century, of John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, of the reinventions of King Arthur,...
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A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey into the Physics of the LHC
Both the layman and expert will find these insights into particle physics fascinating, says Tara Shears
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Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour
This book presents the voices of migrant workers living in London and working in cleaning, construction, food processing, hospitality and domiciliary care. The authors show the ways in which the...
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Peer to Peer and the Music Industry - The Criminalization of Sharing
In a recent interview, legendary music producer Brian Eno declared the record to be a "blip" in the history of the music industries. By this he was referring less to the actual vinyl format than to...
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Figures show we must brush up our stats 1
Statistical skills are in short supply in social research, according to both the Economic and Social Research Council and the European Social Fund ("Quantitative is qualitative" and "Europe, know...
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Figures show we must brush up our stats 2
It was good to see a short report in last week's Times Higher Education on the ESRC's International Benchmarking Review of UK Sociology ("Quantitative is qualitative"). While you rightly pointed to...
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Fees? No way 1
It was disappointing, although not unexpected, to see yet another story in THE dedicated to reopening the question of tuition fees in Scotland ("Ready to charge?", 15 April). The scarcity of...
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Fees? No way 2
It is simply not the case that Scottish universities have not charged tuition fees for a decade. Fees for full-time undergraduates may have been abolished in 2000, but part-time students continue to...
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Liberty bell unheard 1
Your article, "Balls can act, so why can't I: Lammy was vexed by London Met constraints" (15 April), reported that David Lammy, the higher education minister, was puzzled and frustrated by his...
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Liberty bell unheard 2
Those who lecture and provide support at London Met have done a great job carrying on while those charged with managing the university lurched from one disaster to another. Some of those "managers"...
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Income multiples
There is a much easier solution to the problem of global market pressure on vice-chancellors' salaries than the ones suggested in THE ("World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it", 8 April). If vice...
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Unsung but vital
In "Third spaces and bragging rights: the administrator fights back" (8 April), Matthew Andrews asks: "Should we recapture the term 'administrator'?" I couldn't agree more.Recent reports, including...