Tongues truly tied
Freedom of speech is being eroded and academics are complicit in its demise, argues Dennis Hayes. The university is the institutional embodiment of faith in the power of reason. It is a place set...
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It's a no-knowledge economy
In its pursuit of UK plc, the government is undermining intellectual endeavour, writes Paul Taylor. While politicians struggle to deal with the problems caused by the threats of anthrax and the...
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For the record
Gloucestershire joins the university ranks England's first new university in a decade was created this week as the Privy Council confirmed that it had awarded the title to Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Ireland braces itself for skills dearth as number of school-leavers falls
Ireland's universities and technical institutes face a 25 per cent drop in the number of school-leavers over the next 15 years, an expert has said. Don Thornhill, chairman of the Higher Education...
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Women behaving badly for the good
Lisa Jardine chairs a discussion between Fay Weldon and Elaine Showalter on the women's movement - past, present and future. Karen Gold listens in Lisa Jardine: Can you remember, Fay, when you...
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How to make the old dinosaurs sing and dance to the tune and dance to the tune of the new-girl network
Gender barriers are denying many women promotion in academia. Helen Hague asks what is being done? It is really quite touching. A 56-year-old male professor is exasperated by atalented female staff...
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Not crazy after all these years
Why did T. S. Eliot have wife Vivienne committed? She was definitely not mad, argues Carole Seymour-Jones On her death in January 1947, Vivienne Eliot left her papers to the Bodleian Library, Oxford...
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Dialogue or destruction
Muslim academic Zaki Badawi hopes that the events of September 11 will encourage the US to address the issues that inspired such atrocities. Anne Sebba reports. America must see that to stop the war...
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Peering into the hazy and crazy
Nine Crazy Ideas in Science
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On the alpha Academy
Greek Thought
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Differences between seeing and believing
Perception and Reason - The Nature of Perception
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God wafts in as atheist wind abates
Philosophy of Religion
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Logic and superman
Logical Properties
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Good collector finds bad feeling
Public Archaeology
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Blunt phoenix pits itself against Hollywood
Enthusiasm