A science of life
Why does The THES wish to deny sociology a specialist vocabulary when all academic disciplines and most vocations make use of technical terms and phrases ("Is sociology lost or is it just...
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A science of life
Gregor McLennan's definition of the task of the human sciences as being to develop "substantive insights and ideological bearings" is partial, inadequate and too easily an excuse for casual anecdote...
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'I was self-conscious, as the only one married with children'
Bright young things need only apply Vanessa Walker, 42, contracts manager, Mid-Kent Healthcare Trust Vanessa Walker graduated from Goldsmiths College, London, with a degree in psychology and...
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Dressed to sell body and soul
A Cosmopolitan-reading Shakespeare and economists attired a la Reservoir Dogs were two of the strange sights seen recently at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Students from different departments...
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Bulls or bears in Regent's Park?
Business student Richard Downs wanted to set up his own company. Huw Richards talks to a university fostering the next Richard Branson Getting a job has rarely been a problem for an alumnus of London...
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Leaked papers reveal Irish cabinet split over fees
Bitter internal wrangles lay behind the decision by the Irish government to abolish university tuition fees four years ago, leaked cabinet papers reveal. They show that Prionsias de Rossa, then...
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Student Euro ID card mooted
Plans for a new student card to cover the whole of the European Union are being encouraged by MEPs. The card would give holders an officially recognised form of identification and access to a range...
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EU flagship project falters
Eureka, Europe's multimillion flagship programme for industrial research, faces "terminal decline" unless it is drastically restructured and academic researchers are given a bigger role on its...
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Premier-league pay
Re "The curse of high aspirations", THES, March 12, and "Hard times for dismal science", THES, March 26). If university lecturers' lives are to be as pressured as those of management trainees at IBM...
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Why I ...I believe Yorkshire should have its own parliament
Ed Gouge. Lecturer in local government at Leeds University. He was born in Kent and served as a member for Ilford of the Greater London Council until its abolition in 1986. England is officially a...
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Feet first into a fray
Academics must make sure their voice is heard about world events, Renee Hirschon urges Not long ago, at a farewell party for Barbara Harrell-Bond, an anthropologist and founder of the Refugee Studies...
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Partners for better not worse
The advantages of college franchises outweigh the disadvantages, argues Derek Portwood Franchising and collaborative programmes have become a nightmare for senior staff in further education colleges...
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Ancient Egyptian intrigues
The Murder of Tutankhamen - Nefertiti
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In Laban's footsteps
Rudolf Laban
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When longhairs hit Hollywood
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls