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On Mike Fitzgerald's resignation, I am concerned that a myth is being created of someone who was a visionary but could not deliver. This is not the Mike Fitzgerald I have known and respected for more...
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When artists lose the plot
Art schools are turning out romantic narcissists, ignorant of the real world, argues Paul Bonaventura. There is, I believe, a fundamental problem with today's visual arts. Put simply, the larger...
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Why I... I believe the Lords were right to deny former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet legal immunity
Michael Byers, Fellow in international law, Oxford University, Legal adviser to the Chilean victims of Augusto Pinochet I was approached last month by a group of Chilean victims and organisations...
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The force of Freud
Is psychoanalysis finished? No, says Anthony Elliott No modern thinker has affected our views on identity and sexuality as forcefully as Sigmund Freud. Yet, according to some critics, especially in...
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Formulas for riches and fame
How can chemists turn base elements into gold? Well, they could emulate Peter Atkins and start writing phenomenally successful textbooks. Kam Patel reports. A few weeks ago, at his Royal Institution...
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In defence of the textbook
The writing of textbooks needs to be encouraged, argues Steven Kennedy Thomas Kuhn in his classic 1962 text, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , highlighted the role of textbooks in sustaining...
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Students are textual creatures
Books are the basic tool of education, and in buying them students seek value for money, says John Davies. My ideal book would be not too heavy, have a nice cover, a clear contents page with chapters...
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Supertext:The textbook that changed my life
It is perhaps an indication of what a sad, empty life I have led that I have in my time memorised, word for word, two textbooks. The first was a history textbook that I used at school, the title, and...
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Textbook guide
Welcome to the first THES Textbook Guide . The provision of materials for teaching and learning is a subject of great debate in higher education. This new guide will be exclusively devoted to...
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French row over race poll
A row has erupted in France over the 1999 national census plans to include a sample survey on the ethnic origin of respondents. The National Statistics and Economic Studies Institute, which organises...
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Laser attack
A lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology could have sustained permanent eye damage after a student used a laser pointer during a lecture. The university said...
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Guide by telephone
The website (www.ncwe.com) for the National Centre for Work Experience is not up and running. Any readers wanting its booklet on what employers expect students to learn from work experience should...
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Pay is a big put-off
Nurses are not carrying on Pay is at the top of the nursing agenda, and the annual Review Body, chaired by former Oxford Brookes University vice-chancellor Clive Booth, is taking evidence. The Royal...
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Star Turn
Phil Baty joins a driving instructor and decorator on an access course to teaching Like the group of adult learners she is taking today for an access to higher education seminar, Helen Deane, 37, has...
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Are modern 'angels' prepared for the wards?
Nurses are not carrying on The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is investing Pounds 500,000 in its education review, which could, with government approval,...