The week in books
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach professor of world order studies, Columbia University. Penguin, £12.99, ISBN 9780141011929"It was always a source of...
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ART AND DESIGN- Travel, Space, ArchitectureEdited by Jilly Traganou, assistant professor of art and design, New School, and Miodrag Mitrasinovic, associate professor of communication design, New...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Edinburgh
1 Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? by Denis AlexanderMonarch, £10.99ISBN 97818542474692 Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure by Paul C. MartinHarperCollins, £16.99ISBN...
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A Don calling!
Our university has responded quickly to the news that more students are choosing institutions in their own locality so that they can save money by continuing to live at home.Last week saw the...
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Sir Neil MacCormick, 1941-2009
Sir Neil MacCormick, world-renowned legal scholar and leading Scottish nationalist, has died.He was born on 7 May 1941 into one of Scotland's leading political families - his father, John, helped...
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Select Committee is effective and quorate
Although as your article "Burden of oversight grows as committee membership drops" (23 April) suggests, the select committee of which we are all members has a wide area to cover, and that we have...
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Far from measurable 1
In his response to my opinion piece on the Arts and Humanities Research Council, its chief executive, Philip Esler, restates the policies of Research Councils UK (cue theme tune of Yes, Minister),...
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Far from measurable 2
While critics of the attempt to measure the economic returns from research are correct in noting that there are benefits from research that may not be measurable by economic activity, economics is by...
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Charities play a strong role
Your coverage of the Research Councils UK and Universities UK review of full economic costs ("FEC review calls for tighter governance and monitoring", 30 April) does not mention its strong statement...
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The search for truth
To take issue with Hugh McLachlan's personal insult and twisted logic (Letters, 30 April) would be to fall into the trap of being diverted from the original point at issue, namely that the...
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Equality and diversity
It is wrong to suggest that social mobility has remained static or that the efforts of Government and universities to promote widening participation have failed ("Community cohesion", 30 April)....
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Qualifying point
Tara Brabazon's article on teaching qualifications ("Blind sides", 30 April) misrepresents my recent argument in these pages, no doubt inadvertently. I did not employ a "piquant inversion of logic"...
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Due notice required
The phrase "snooping" is completely ludicrous ("Students' union accused of snooping on lecturers", 30 April) when students are being asked to respond to academic staff who fail to attend sessions...
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Pipped to pole position
While wishing all success to the diploma in clinical hypnosis at St Mary's University College ("Mesmeric medicine", 9 April), it is not the first recognised academic qualification in clinical...
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Not in our front yard
Times Higher Education carried a review of a recent book published by Greenwood Press, Al-Qaeda Goes to College (23 April). Its subtitle is Impact of the War on Terror on American Higher Education....