Lecturers loathe to report on GNVQs
Those who thought that Christina Townsend would be a new broom will be disappointed to discover (THES, November 4) that she does not intend to sweep clean but only to spread more whitewash. We have...
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A thinking church
Charles Clark (THES, October 28) has a naive view about how the church colleges interpret their task. To examine value questions from a position of commitment does not imply "the dissemination of...
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Doctorates in trouble
Shortly before my undergraduate finals, I asked an eminent American social scientist, who had come to give a guest seminar, how he had first become interested in his field. I have forgotten his full...
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Dot shots
Jane Seaton's piece on Marshall McLuhan ("Speaking Volumes", November 4) struck some 1960s chords. McLuhan did write some wonderful dotty things - including the aphoristic exposition of his "dot"...
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On the wrong road
Some of the comments attributed to Michael McCarthy ("The last island takes road to Rome", THES, October 14) make curious reading for Irish art historians. Particularly bizarre is the notion that,...
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Go-ahead for Alfa contest
Contrary to your report (THES, November 4), the European Commission has approved Alfa, the academic training programme linking Europe and Latin America, with a budget of ECU40 million (32 million...
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John Gardiner
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded a fellowship to John Gardiner, head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Bradford.
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Canon fire
I am surprised that the director of the Courtauld Institute, London, should say that he "did not believe there is a canon in the history of art...", (Perspective, THES, October 28). He, along with...
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Goldsmiths exit plan
Redundancy is not looming at Goldsmiths (THES, October 28). Staff are being invited to consider the possibility of voluntary severance, including early retirement, in a strategy that has been...
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Medical choice
The Council of Deans of UK Medical Schools and Faculties stands by the recommendations, agreed with Universies and Colleges Admissions Service that only five choices for medicine and the use of three...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. I lie awake at night, worrying about the team of specialist assessors I am to meet. I know that one comes from a department that was assessed as "satisfactory" the week before, after claiming...
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Much ado about IQ
There are many people who refuse to go to the dentist because they might discover some cavities; some even fail to consult a physician when they fear they might have a cancerous growth, in case he...
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Wild about Harry
It is not often that the creators of a new opera, before its premi re, come to a university music department and answer questions about it. But that was what happened last month when Sir Harrison...
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Netting a fine cache
In the mid-1600s, two determined Quaker women left their husbands and children behind and set out for Rome. Their extra-ordinary mission was to convert the Pope. Instead they found themselves...
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Crick's science is just not 'serious'
Fraser Watts, lecturer in science and religion at Cambridge University, this week accused two leading biologists, Francis Crick and Richard Dawkins, of using "ideologically-motivated reductionist...