First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author who has an asteroid named after him: "For thousands of years, human beings have contemplated...
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The classics boiled down to essential elements
The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books
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Transgressors with their amps turned up to 11
Extreme Metal
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Spirits reborn as martyrs and money-spinners
Mother Leakey and the Bishop
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The relentless rise of coffee-table cults
Household Gods
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Girls and families pay for one-child policy
China's Longest Campaign
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Clerical errors" at Sheffield University led to three of a department's staff being listed wrongly on its website as having a PhD - The Times Higher , March 9. From: the Vice-Chancellor and Chief...
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Leader: Open plan or open warfare?
In an era when the chief executive of British Airways goes into the office and looks for somewhere to sit - having no office or desk to call his own - academics have held out longer than most for the...
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Leader: Freedom trumps faith
Most of the controversy surrounding academic freedom has until now revolved around two issues: the right to offend and the right of academics to venture a controversial opinion on a topic outside...
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Law will not help contract staff 1
I and many other academics have followed the debate concerning fixed-term contracts with bemusement verging on hysteria ("Changes to work law begin to bite", March 9). The idea that universities have...
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Law will not help contract staff 2
Further to articles on universities moving to reduce the number of fixed-term research contracts, I am writing with hope that this approach will be followed by Luton University (now Bedfordshire...
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Contrary to the report
If there is an award for imaginative reporting and perverse interpretation, I should like to nominate The Times Higher for the article "Scotland slams QAA's methods" (March 9). It refers to a report...
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Shameful stance
"To challenge a tutor is brave act" ran the headline on your letters page last week (March 9). So is blowing yourself up, but the people are still self-righteous fanatics. The harassment of David...
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Language alliance
You report that Russell Group universities are increasingly becoming the major providers of single honours language programmes ("Study deserts blight UK", February 9), and this is a likely...
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Skills snapshot
There has been a great deal of discussion on the content and importance of research degree programmes. But since a "snapshot of work" has revealed that they are "particularly good in transferable...