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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 work first published anonymously: "In the republic of letters, there is no member of such inferior...
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Laurie Taylor column
From : The office of the vice-chancellor To : All members of staff Following last week's publication in The THES of a league table of vice-chancellors' pay, it has been brought to my attention that a...
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Letter: We've got a Bone to pick, Joe 1
I share with the pseudonymous Joe Bone (Soapbox, THES , February 8) doubts about the relationship between the government's economic vision and its higher education policies. But his article, "This...
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Letter: We've got a Bone to pick, Joe
Joe Bone's experience of teaching politics at a new university makes sad reading, but it would be a mistake to derive a general lesson from his experience. I and a number of my colleagues were...
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Letter: We've got a Bone to pick, Joe 3
Remedial training for first-year students "arriving without the basics" despite record A-level results - a problem Cambridge University reported several years ago; a target of 50 per cent...
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Letter: Bourdieu the brave 1
Before Pierre Bourdieu is safely interred in the sepulchre of academia ("France still feels the force of his habitus", THES , February 8), it is worth remembering his later active involvement in the...
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Letter: Bourdieu the brave 2
Fred Inglis argues that Pierre Bourdieu has left an impressive legacy of the kind that just does not happen in Britain. If Inglis had not written such a grumpy account of the life of Raymond Williams...
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Letter: Researchers routed 1
With the Higher Education Funding Council for England presiding over the biggest shift of resources in its history to the largest, richest universities, the role of the research councils needs...
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Letter: Researchers routed 2
Hefce's betrayal of grade-3 departments has the effect of giving about £60 million more to the old university sector and taking £30 million away from the new. This is irrational. New universities use...
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Letter: Researchers routed 3
Richard Green adds further tongue-in-cheek RAE categories to Laurie Taylor's list of "research-inactive" staff. But there is a serious point. The arbitrary lower limit of four publications is...
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Letter: Researchers routed 4
The debate over the 2001 research assessment exercise consists only of minor quibbles, while larger and important weaknesses of the exercise - itself an example of flawed research - are no longer...
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Letter: Logic and lesbians 1
Sylvia Pankhurst's unquestionable bravery may well cancel out her demerits and qualify her for a statue somewhere. But if the statue is seen as a reward for getting votes for women, Mary Davis (...
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Letter: Logic and lesbians 2
The points that Mary Davis makes in her letter are well taken. But the question of "who cares" whether some of the women campaigning for the vote were lesbians cannot be left unanswered. Lesbians...