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Your report on a conference "defending" philosophy against university cuts is bizarre, particularly since it suggests that the event aimed to bring philosophers together to build a united front ("...
Your report on a conference "defending" philosophy against university cuts is bizarre, particularly since it suggests that the event aimed to bring philosophers together to build a united front ("...
Your article "UK influence abroad at risk from lack of overseas study" (3 June) fails to mention American studies, an important subject that has promoted study abroad since the Fulbright Act of 1946...
The University and College Union's response to Nicola Dandridge's article on the reform of the Universities Superannuation Scheme invites employers to begin talks "to help find a joint solution" to...
THE's excellent analysis "Soul searching, not soul stirring" (20 May) missed two important aspects of the process of creating believable, evocative and meaningful mission statements.First, if the...
I am grateful to the architectural historian James Stevens Curl for his overwhelmingly positive review of my book, Pevsner - The Early Life: Germany and Art ("From Bildung to buildings", 3 June)....
After the postmodern, the altermodern, the digimodern and performatism ("Successor states to an empire in free fall", May), how about the virmodern? Namely, that stage of capitalism where the...
I was fascinated by Catherine Hakim's article on "erotic capital" ("Attractive forces at work", 3 June). However, are we to conclude from the absence of an accompanying photograph of the author that...
"Erotic capital": in other words, dress smartly, smile nicely and you will make a good impression. My mother told me that 40 years ago.David Bowers, Head of learning development, University Campus...

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"An important and exciting breakthrough." This was the reaction of Jamie Targett, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, to recent research by Dr Catherine Hakim of the London School of...
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