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UNIVERSITY OF HUMBERSIDE. Jack Adams, pro vice chancellor (development), professor of educational development; Rosina Jones, dean of the school of international marketing and communications,...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who, 21 years ago, did nothing to help assuage the anxiety of nervous seaside swimmers: "The fish faded from view. But, kept from sinking into the deep by...
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Speaking Volumes: Pleasure and Danger
Lynne Segal on Carole Vance's Pleasure and Danger . Flat on my back in 1984 (having ruptured a disc during peaceful - if richly fantasmagoric - slumber), I read a collection of essays which helped to...
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Brain &
Huw Richards suggests (THES, July 21) that the proposed new sports scholarships should be given a new name. Why not Bannister scholarships, after one of Britain's greatest sportsman who showed how it...
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Lucy set the pace, not Bob
Following man's early footsteps", indeed (THES, July 21). I am resigned to archaeologists describing the whole of early humanity as "man", but doesn't The THES have guidelines of gender-neutral...
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Staff governors' role
David Charter's article on staff governors like the beginnings of an archaeological dig, unearths issues of much deeper significance. Should the governance model of universities and colleges be based...
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Quest for an IQ test
James Tooley's proposal that children should be issued with an IQ certificate deserves more serious thought than that given to it by Richard Pring. The proposal has considerable merit, but is capable...
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Quest for an IQ test
May I insert one or two conceptual points into the debate on intelligence testing (THES, July 7, 14 ) before it takes off again on predictable lines? Establishing what is intelligence is a conceptual...
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Citizens get in the Scene
Alan Irwin's welcome article on Citizen Service (THES, July 21) promotes the virtues of students using their degree-level knowledge for the benefit of the under-resourced local community. From the...
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Exclusion zone fears
There are a good many serious threats to academic freedom in this country, but the tyranny of "theory" is not one of them. If "theory" is about anything it is about opening up spaces for those who...
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Exclusion zone fears
Although the plight outlined by your understandably anonymous contributor ("Sacred cows' herd instincts", THES, July 21) is a familiar one, the exclusion experienced by him/her is by no means...
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Suicides linked to poverty
Bristol University research into suicide and attempted suicide supports the importance of social policy measures in improving mental health. Researchers in the department of social medicine examined...
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Shopping malls win youth vote
The Government's dismay over the phenomenal growth of out-of-town shopping centres is not shared by youngsters who shop and socialise there. John Gummer, Secretary of State for the Environment, moved...
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Estuaries give industry tip
An examination of estuaries in Argentina is expected to give clues to the environmental damage caused by industrialisation. Researchers at Plymouth University are conducting a four-year investigation...
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Imperial appoints medical principal
Imperial College is reversing London's medical brain drain with the appointment of Christopher Edwards, dean of Edinburgh University's faculty of medicine, as principal of its new medical school. The...