Students fall for Gallic charm
Academic posts in French are booming, especially at professorial level, after a two-year decline, according to an analysis of advertisements in The THES. Mike Kelly, professor of French at...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. "A characteristic feature...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. "In terms of British and...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. On May 8 European heads of...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. This victory" (pauses for...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. Great Britain was probably...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. On the first morning of my...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. Whatever you do, don't...
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Dogmas and pet theories
Rupert Sheldrake, regarded as a heretic by many biologists, argues for experiments that he believes could revolutionise understanding of the mind. The still-dominant paradigm in institutional biology...
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The scenic view
Simon Targett talks to the irreverent historian of landscape and descendant of Lithuanian loggers, Simon Schama. Simon Schama never knew Sir Percy Winfield. The old Cambridge lawyer had been dead ten...
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Backlash against the stress society
Last year we heard that lecturers were more stressed and pressurised than ever before. Whereas a generation ago universities were relaxing places to be (bar the odd sit-in or demonstration) today...
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Don's Diary
Friday. Super-shuttle to Heathrow. Pick up external member of Staffordshire university validation panel who works for both City University and Lyon Business School. It is proposed that the new course...
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Dismissed at a moment's notice
For the past five years I have worked as a part-time lecturer in the department of adult education at Hull University. Last month I was dismissed at a moment's notice and without any prior warning by...
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India ignored
How can Peter Harris (World View, THES April 14) talk of Asia without showing a trace of awareness of the Indian subcontinent? A consideration of the variety of Indian attitudes to democracy, for...
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Bring those accountable to book
Alfred Morris proposes a new model for quality in higher education. Tim Boswell's weary suggestion that in the absence of agreement between the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the...