Democratic dream slips down the digital divide
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Sanity regained but charisma lost
Electronic Texts in the Humanities
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Lesson in déjà vu for sophisticates
The Renaissance Computer
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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 Marxist cricket writer: "Christopher Columbus landed first in the New World at the island of San...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Britain's public intellectuals have been replaced by the safe university expert" - THES, October 5 . Andy Williams with "Can't Get Used to Losing You". This is drive-time classic hour on Poppleton...
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Letter: Clinical cavity
Medical and dental students must understand the structure and function of the human body in order to understand and treat disease ("Final-year medical students not ready for wards", THES , October 5...
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Letter: Para-training
In debates about foundation degrees and the government's desire to foster them (Analysis, THES , September 28), teaching assistants are a particularly good group to consider. The government also...
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Letter: Dearing, do... (1)
The government's rethink of student support is a welcome return to the recommendations of the 1997 Dearing report ("Student cash in melting pot", THES , October 5). The criteria we used were that any...
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Letter: Dearing, do... (2)
Peter Lampl contends that "rich students should pay the full cost of tuition fees to subsidise poor undergraduates" ("Lampl: fee system is rigged", THES , October 5), but there are few rich students...
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Letter: Back off, Baroness
May I object to Mary Warnock's statement: "Seeking to avoid a tendency to obesity, to alcoholism, to aggression or to homosexuality may seem little less acceptable than seeking to avoid disease". ("A...
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Letter: Personality split
Jane Ayres is sceptical that compulsory teaching qualifications for further education tutors will raise standards ("The power of personality", THES , September 21). While I agree that some inherent...
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Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (1)
Frank Furedi paints too rosy a picture of the United States and too bleak a picture of the United Kingdom. He also overlooks a distinctive British opportunity for cultivating public intellectuals ("...
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Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (2)
The most deplorable aspect of the marginalisation of the intellectual in Britain is the collusion of universities. Universities have embraced the managerial ethos and it is stifling autonomy and...
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Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (3)
Frank Furedi raises a number of salient issues concerning the state of the British university, in particular the decline of public intellectuals and the rise of the narrowly focused academic "expert...