Aesthetic visions beyond logic
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogues - Goodbye Descartes
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a Nobel prize-winning writer fascinated by the psychology of the crowd: "...
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A Mickey Mouse degree?
Marya Burgess examines the persistent prejudice in journalism against media studies If you want to be a journalist, do a physics degree or do zoology," advises Tim Finch, the BBC's regional political...
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'I thought people would snap me up..'
A Mickey Mouse degree? Sam Noonan graduated in English and media studies from Sussex University in 1993. "I wanted to go into TV production - being a researcher appealed to me. I thought people would...
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Red, the colour of stars and blood
Kate Davenport looks at the fall-out from a book that equates Communist atrocities with Nazi genocide and charges western Communists with complicity in the crimes of their eastern comrades It's a bit...
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What's good for the customer
Since its inception, The Times' Good University Guide has been eagerly read and heavily criticised. On the one hand, potential undergraduate students and their advisers have welcomed a simple guide...
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Lottery oversight
On April 24, we published a table of lottery awards. It failed to include the Warwick Arts Centre, which is formally part of the university. It won Pounds 3.14 million in 1996 for development.
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Evolutionary workers' party
It is time the left embraced Darwin, forgot Utopia and accepted there are some things about human nature that cannot be changed. Peter Singer urges a new manifesto on the left. The tragic irony of...
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Ziggy in an age without stardust
Modernity's relentless drive for the ultimate answer produced the Holocaust, according to Zygmunt Bauman. But will our postmodern age with its rejection of the illusion of total solutions avoid such...
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Nice little learners
Most students are seriously poor. One or two, however, are very, very rich. So why are they bothering with a degree? Harriet Swain reports. John Bennett is juggling journalists - or rather, his PR...
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No more heroes any more?
Alan Shearer will probably be canonised in Newcastle if he scores the winner in the FA Cup Final tomorrow. But, as Richard Holt explains, working-class heroism is not what it used to be. Will...
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Saddam Hussein's city of the damned
Saddam Hussein's gassing of Halabja in 1988 was the worst chemical weapons attack ever. Geneticist Christine Gosden went there and was appalled by people's continuing agony and by how little we know...
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Japan's overdue overhaul
British academics who need cheering up about the state of our universities might glance nine time zones to the east. There, Japan is grappling with university problems that would make our hardest-...
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Bring many minds to bear on policy
A year into the Labour administration there is still a sense of excitement for academics interested in public policy. It arises from a feeling that the government's agenda is not yet fully set, a...
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Agencies hold regional key
WITH a hint of irony, perhaps, the Dearing committee report, in its chapter on the local and regional roles of higher education, concluded that, compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, "in...