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* Tony Blair's "Big Brother" government is the most Orwellian ever to be elected in the United Kingdom, according to a visiting academic at the London School of Economics. Simon Davies, visiting...
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For the record
* From Monday, no new member of university staff or anyone renewing their contract will be asked to sign a waiver clause on unfair dismissal thanks to the Employment Relations Act 1999. But the...
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* A researcher at the University of Huddersfield has been awarded the title of PhD researcher of the decade by China. Dr Xiangqian "Jayne" Jiang, an expert in surface measurement, received her award...
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* Andrew Neil, editor-in-chief of the Scotsman Group, has been elected rector of St Andrews University, narrowly defeating Tommy Sheridan, leader of the Scottish Socialist Party. On the day of the...
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* The Court of Appeal this week granted lecturer Gill Evans the right to full appeal against Cambridge University's attempts to make her pay nearly Pounds 10,000 in legal costs. Dr Evans was ordered...
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* Women will march through East London next Wednesday in a demonstration organised by the National Union of Students' women's campaign. The marchers will retrace the steps of suffragettes. They are...
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* Student protesters were preparing a noisy reception committee for Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who was to visit Cambridge University today. Free Tibet campaigners and others will stage protests....
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* Unemployment among graduates has fallen for the sixth consecutive year, to 5.7 per cent, according to the report, What Do Graduates Do? 2000. Highest unemployment is among design studies (10.4 per...
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Elitism alive and well
Reports of the death of elitism in higher education are grossly exaggerated ('Populist Labour swells HE ranks', THES, October 1). Government targets for widening participation are to be welcomed....
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What is a don for?
Your headline "Endangered species: why dons must adapt or die" (THES, October 15) does not exaggerate the significance for many academics of what is happening to universities today. However, your...
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Our service is not soundbites
Some years ago, while working at the University of Manchester, I was having a drink in a pub in the then notorious Hulme district of the city when I fell into conversation with a man who asked me...
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Our service is not soundbites
Charles Leadbeater is right that academics need to be responsive to the larger socio-political environment in which they play an increasing role. But that does not mean that academics must simply...
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Our service is not soundbites
Charles Leadbeater's analysis has a ring of truth in some areas, particularly the working conditions of academics. As is so often the case, he fails to recognise that the advent of devolution is...
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Mind games
Steven Pinker, as always, makes some bold predictions ("Uniting the branches of knowledge", THES, October 8). "The fundamental division," he writes, "between the humanities and sciences may become as...
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A man out of time
You accompany the review of John Cornwell's Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII ("A proof of papal fallibility", THES, October 15) with a photograph and caption taken from the book...