Perpetuating a game of charades
The Lords debate on higher education ("Free sector and let fees rise, argue Lords", 3 July) covered most of the deceptions perpetrated in higher education.First, the cost. Quadrupling class sizes...
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Recycle to disseminate
Before we launch into a moral panic about self-plagiarism and redundant publication ("Allow me to rephrase that, and boost my tally of articles", 3 July), we ought to debate what these terms might...
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Managing a complex beast
As a manager in a UK university I can sympathise with the plight of Bernard Casey ("Generosity earns a severe scolding", 3 July). Allowing for the possibility that we don't have the full Birkbeck...
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The in-betweeners
Middle managers may be vital in today's universities, but a lack of training and grumbles that they undermine the collegial ethos have made many academics wary of the role. Tariq Tahir reports
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Novel thinking
Creative writing is as popular today as critical theory was a decade ago. Why the change, asks Penny Hancock, and how does it fit in with the study of English literature?
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All the privileged must have prizes
The banality and sense of entitlement of rich students at Harvard left John H. Summers feeling his teaching had been degraded to little more than a service to prepare clients for monied careers
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10 July 2008
Crucial link - The struggle of the middle managers bridging the gulf between academics and the administration
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‘Regret at unhappiness’ over Dalai Lama’s degree
London Met ‘has not and will not be apologising’ to Chinese community. Melanie Newman reports
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The week in books
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present by Jan de Vries, professor of history and economics, University of California, Santa Barbara Cambridge...
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Homeland insecurity
Barbed wire, dispossession and fear: Laleh Khalili on liminal lives spent in an ever-shrinking ghetto
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The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey
This book concerns the ongoing wanderings to which Odysseus/Ulysses, the hero of the Odyssey, has been subjected during the course of the nearly three millennia since the poet we know as Homer...
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In Defense of Lost Causes
In today's "postmodern" liberal ideology, it would appear that the old trajectories of both universal struggle and authoritarian hegemony now resemble what Maoists - ironically enough - would call "...
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Published this week
HISTORYLeprosy in China: A History. By Angela Ki Che Leung, research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taipei and professor of history, National Taiwan University. Columbia University Press, £29.50....
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Clinging on to their marbles
Peter Stone on a last-gasp defence of the rich Western museums hoarding the world's cultural heritage
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The 'Woman Question' and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America
Professor Plum is attempting to do in Ms Peacock in the library with a pen. Despite the successes of the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s in opening university doors to women students, 19th-...