Screen Education: From Film Appreciation to Media Studies
The case for the study of cinema was hard fought, not least among the believers, finds Philip Kemp
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‘To Everything There Is a Season’: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
In a recent edition of Times Higher Education, James Alexander lamented the gradual demise of the electric guitar in the years that followed the 1970s. The article ran around the time of the 90th...
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Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail
The citadel of psychiatry has withstood several determined assaults since at least the middle of the last century, most of them launched from within psychiatry itself. Minor skirmishing, involving a...
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CHEMISTRY- Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic MoleculesBy Nicholas J. Turro, William P. Schweitzer professor of chemistry, Columbia University, V. Ramamurthy, Bernaud Bauss professor of...
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William Birch, 1925-2009
William Birch, a leading geographer who had a decisive impact on the development of Bristol Polytechnic, has died.He was born on 24 November 1925 and educated at Ranelagh School in Berkshire,...
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How big is your impact?
Speculation that a Poppleton sociology don had secured a top mark in the new measurement of research impact has been dashed by a spokesperson for the Economic and Social Research Council.The story...
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'Impact' assessment must look at learning 1
Your recent news story on the research excellence framework quotes Graeme Rosenberg, REF project manager at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, saying that the proportion of the REF...
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'Impact' assessment must look at learning 2
You report that the importance of academic research may be judged in part by its impact on the wider world. Do I sense Max Clifford's entry into the academy, with the first scholar to get their work...
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Duty to contract lecturers
I was moved to read that four London institutions have agreed to pay their cleaners and caterers more than the minimum wage ("Group reminds institutions of duty to help lowest paid", 23 July). I hope...
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Creativity is a must
While welcoming 10,000 additional university places, the decision to restrict them to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects alone ignores the coterminous nature of arts and...
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Learn to stand alone
Kevin Sharpe hits the nail on the head ("Teach them how to think", 16 July). Broadly speaking, pupils have learnt to be taught, whereas students are learning to learn, to study under guidance. They...
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Moved on from Mao
As your correction makes clear, Mao Zedong died in 1979, not 1976 ("From where I sit", 9 July). It is a rather comforting reflection of how much China has changed that your correspondent, Hong Bing,...
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By George, take that
Workers facing redundancy at City University London might reply to Malcolm Gillies, their Summertime-quoting ex-vice-chancellor, with other Gershwin lyrics ("Summertime, but living's not easy for...
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Classics mistakes
Three observations on your list of "Highly cited papers in classical studies since 2000" (Research, 23 July). First, the ten papers attracted on average 1.5 citations a year. Such small numbers are...
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Video kills the jet-set star
I noted with interest the letter from Bruce Lloyd suggesting that universities should invest in video-conferencing equipment to slash the environmental impact of staff air travel ("Keep them grounded...