Put your doubts to the angry-man test
Law, Probability and Risk
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Dreams that mould minds
Alberto Giacometti - At Work in Paris
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Don't rely on tricks, design to the letter
The Words between the Spaces
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All the 'stuff' of a cowboy country
The American Effect
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Generous to bricks but parsimonious with the brickbats
Everything Seemed Possible - New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money - Breaking down the Barriers - Annus Mirabilis?
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Elaborate take on an imperial vision
Bombay Gothic
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book written by a gay Nobel laureate: "'The time has come for me to hear a step in the passage,'...
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Elaborate take on an imperial vision
Bombay Gothic
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book written by a gay Nobel laureate: "'The time has come for me to hear a step in the passage,'...
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Special features 2003-2004
How to get promoted Published: November 19 2004 A career guide for academics (PDF file: 165 KB) Postgraduate Education in the UK Published: November 12 2004 Summary of a report by the...
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Campus havens, classroom hell 1
I'd like to share my experience of teaching in a typical secondary school in response to Tina Brown's article ("Get a job in academe? You must be joking", THES , November 7). In the county in which I...
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Campus havens, classroom hell 2
From the periphery of the lecturers' labour market, I empathise with Tina Brown. But are academics "gutless"? The following ads for postgraduate research fellows appeared recently in The THES...
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Insular arguments
Alison Wolf (Columnist, THES , November 14) paints a dismal but familiar picture of UK higher education and its inherent parochialism. Only one sentence in the entire article mentions the benefits (...
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Pension pitfalls
Alexander Wedderburn's problem of non-recognition of his Universities Superannuation Scheme pension by German universities (Letters, THES , November 14) matches mine, but in reverse. I made my...
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Prudence on pay
If the Association of University Teachers is at odds with colleagues in other unions (Jocelyn Prudence, Letters, THES , November 14), it is because it does not strike two-year pay deals at 4am when...