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BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS- Strategy by Design: A Process of Strategy InnovationBy James Carlopio, associate professor of management, Bond University, Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, £48.50. ISBN...
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Ursula Martin discovers much about an IT pioneer's work, but too little about her personality
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Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
Our most likely modern experience of live-in servants is with the nanny, subject of countless horror stories at dinner parties. Working and living in someone else's home puts both employee and...
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There's Something About Gödel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem
There is a story that in 1930 the great mathematician John von Neumann emerged from a seminar delivered by Kurt Gödel saying: "It's all over." Gödel had just proved the two theorems about the logical...
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In knowledge terms, power is critical
While delighted to see critical thinking covered by Linda Elder's article "Reason to live" (18 February), I take issue with some of her assumptions. She offers a rather reductionist view of thinking...
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Running to stand still
Amanda Goodall states that the core business of a university is research and teaching ("Raise your game", 18 February), but a news story covering a conference address by John Haldane is headlined: "...
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Cats and dogs
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's diatribe against cats and their owners appears to employ similar arguments to those advanced in John Haldane's diatribe against researchers: both assume an "either/or"...
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Publish, publish, publish
Times Higher Education recently noted that the University of Central Lancashire spent more than £80,000 trying to prevent its homeopathy course material from being exposed ("Hush money", 18 February...
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Brand aids
Within hours of online publication, the article "'Frankensite' monsters loom as universities lose control of content" (18 February) had attracted a score of impassioned comments concerning the...
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Caveat opportunists
John Curry poses an interesting question about the future of higher education in further education (Letters, 18 February). Undoubtedly, some universities will question the future of such partnerships...
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Critical interpretation
"How high? 'Reasonable number' would accept fees hike" (11 February) raised valid points about tuition-fee levels. However, there was some debatable interpretation of the survey results featured that...
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Joined-up model
The juxtaposition of Paul Whiteley's letter ("Unethical Trac", 18 February) and the article on academic stress ("Stress levels exceed safety parameters") highlight the need for joined-up thinking...
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Decade of success
The article "Extreme makeover" (4 February) describing the University of Hong Kong's curriculum reforms refers to similarly intentioned innovations at the universities of Melbourne and Aberdeen. It...
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Universal freedoms
In "Rise up, freedom fighters" (Leader, 11 February), you say that Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) "takes on only the few cases that suit its political agenda". What differentiates AFAF from...
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Popularity context
I was puzzled by your description of Niall Ferguson as a "popular historian" (The week in higher education, 18 February). Do you mean that everyone likes him, or are you referring to the brand of...