Teaching needs support, too
Mary Malcolm's opinion piece "Nurturing critical minds" (15 October) made me laugh aloud. Just one sentence of her article focused on the workers meant to deliver her vague aims - "Of course, this...
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Beyond the practical
In illustrating courses that have "an obvious pay-off in employment terms" and thus merit support, Alan Ryan ("Practical implications", 8 October) instances a six-month paralegal training course. He...
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Final preparations
Having watched BBC Four's The Art of Dying, in which Dan Cruickshank worked at encountering his own mortality, Gary Day asks "what is there to say except that we are all going to kick the bucket?" ("...
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Where hardship abounds
The anguished response of the president of the National Union of Students to my article on student finances ("The life of Riley? Hardly", 15 October) leads me to recall the words of Mandy Rice-Davies...
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Art and suffering
What A.C. Grayling says about the concept of "art" ("Art: whether you love it or hate it, the purpose is to elicit a response", 8 October) cannot be an adequate definition of this concept unless he...
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Historians, take a lesson 1
Your historians ("Past mistakes", 15 October) seem to be as guilty as the politicians they criticise. Historians have been criticising the misuse of history by policymakers for centuries. Politicians...
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Historians, take a lesson 2
The greatest number of people studying history in Britain are aged between five and 14. If research historians and policymakers wish to be more "directly useful", they might consider giving more than...
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Simon Thirgood, 1962-2009
An ecologist who influenced conservation policy from the Scottish grouse moors to the Serengeti has died.Simon Thirgood was born in Liberia on 6 December 1962 and brought up in Vancouver, where his...
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University of Oxford - SIM city
A mobile-phone service launched by the University of Oxford will provide maps, contacts and news to students and visitors, plus travel information, podcasts and information on library books. Unlike...
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Down with scholars!
Our vice-chancellor is to head up a brand new organisation called UMAS (University Managers Against Scholarship).Speaking to The Poppletonian earlier this week, he explained that membership of UMAS...
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Is a G&T growth enabling?
Sally Feldman's mentoring sessions don't follow rules, and that's no bad thing
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From where I sit - Teaching is half the battle
A friend of mine who decided to go back to university to do a postgraduate teaching degree in her mid-forties recently withdrew from the course after barely a semester. She didn't think the course's...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research intelligence: 'You must spread the word'
RCUK head warns that people need to know the benefits of public investment in research. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Leader: Postgrads deserve better
The social and personal-development needs of students who study for higher degrees must be taken more seriously