China: The Pessoptimist Nation
As China is fast emerging as a major economic power and global strategic player with growing influence in international affairs, the question of how to understand China has become more urgent for...
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Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting as a Social Practice
In the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the East became a Mecca for record collectors as East Berliners binned their vinyl collections in the throes of a love affair with that tangible emblem...
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ENGINEERINGBecoming an Engineer in Public Universities: Pathways for Women and MinoritiesEdited by Kathryn M. Borman, professor of anthropology, University of South Florida; Rhoda H. Halperin,...
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'Whiners'? No, we are simply doing our job 1
What exactly is "a realistic strategy for the future"? That is the core issue raised by Ann Mroz in last week's leader ("Stop with the gloom and doom", 17 June).She accuses me of "hysteria and...
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'Whiners'? No, we are simply doing our job 2
I read with interest the article on the League of European Research Universities' argument that European Research Council funding should be doubled ("Less red tape, more euros, research alliance...
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Model doesn't stand up
As a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and a professor at two Chinese universities, I was bemused to read Simon Marginson's article on the "Confucian model" of education ("Tigers burning bright...
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Cheats' tariff is criminal
The proposed tariff to tackle plagiarism lacks common sense ("Plagiarism tariff: let the punishment fit the demerit points", 17 June).If a first-year student "fails to attribute one sentence in a...
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Obfuscatory measures
Tony Bruce of the Employers Pensions Forum (EPF) calls for "a rational debate" on the necessity for reforming the Universities Superannuation Scheme ("Debate, not threats", Letters, 10 June).The...
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Open and shut case?
It could be argued that THE's "Table of tables" is meaningless because it doesn't include The Open University: after all, its teaching quality and National Student Survey rankings usually score...
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People in glass houses ..
In his review of Massimo Pigliucci's Nonsense on Stilts (Books, 10 June), Lou Marinoff sees fit to launch gratuitous attacks on "hysterical feminists" and on Noam Chomsky. Marinoff writes of "the...
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Francois Crouzet, 1922-2010
A French historian who devoted much of his career to the story of European industrialisation, the rise of Britain and the parallel decline of France has died.Francois Crouzet was born in the Vienne...
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Role-playing: two feared dead
"A serious setback for empathy." That was how our Head of Personal Development, Jennifer Doubleday, described the tragic outcome of last Thursday's exercise in campus role-playing.Ms Doubleday told...
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Content before commerce
Merchandising should not dictate children's television, says Sally Feldman
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From Where I Sit: Emerging signs of maturity
Saudi Arabia's higher education leaders are obsessed with world rankings, but are aware that their universities do not compete well, and that rankings have not effectively measured much of what goes...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersClaire Chambers is senior lecturer in postcolonial literature, Leeds Metropolitan University. She is reading Ghada Karmi's In Search of Fatima...