Letter: weathering change
Merylyn McKenzie Hedger ("Man is messing up the climate", THES , November 3) was right to flag the issue of climate change adaptation. For too long, debate has centred on how best to mitigate climate...
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Letter: degrees of level-headed thinking (1)
The latest version of the national qualifications framework is mostly good news ("QAA revises framework", THES , November 17). Positioning the foundation degree at HE level 2 alongside DipHEs and...
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Letter: degrees of level-headed thinking (2)
Am I alone in being thoroughly confused about the level of the ordinary (bachelor) degree? The Quality Assurance Agency's latest about the ordinary degree (now pitched at HE2 in a three-level...
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Letter: degrees of level-headed thinking (3)
In relation to the QAA national qualifications framework, I did not say "the original model with four levels was not thought through enough" ("QAA revises framework", THES , November 17). What I said...
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Letter: racist 'logic'
The British government's attitude towards immigration is profoundly racist; witness the differential treatment given to impoverished refugees and asylum seekers as against the welcome extended to...
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Letter: Oxford equality
In their latest analysis of Oxford University's admissions statistics, A. H. Halsey and N. G. McCrum ("The slow but certain arrival of equality at Oxford University", THES , November 17) show...
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TV & radio guide - Friday
(All time pm unless stated) Conquistadors (9.00 BBC2; 9.30 in Wales). “The Fall of the Aztecs.” Michael Wood starts a four-part travelogue-history series on the 16th-century Spaniards who overran...
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A fresh approach to taking a bath
With her book Bathing: The Body and Community Care , Julia Twigg hopes to bring new insights to carework by placing it in a broader social and historical context. Nothing could be more mundane than...
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Return of the killer comb jellyfish
As rogue jellyfish wreak havoc in the Caspian Sea, ecologist Henri Dumont warns that time is running out for indigenous species and local fishermen alike. What happens when an organism that has...
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Disguising cheap matter as fabulous treasure
Bricks, tins of excrement, pickled animals and unmade bedsI Anything can be passed off as art, says Robert Dixon, and London's Tate Gallery is largely to blame. Whoever gets the Turner prize on...
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Filling the gaps in the knowledge economy
The university has played a crucial role in expanding Cambridge's high-tech cluster. But, says Bill Wicksteed, the government has not risen to the challenge. Images of wealthy zillionaires from...
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So we agree not to agree?
A year ago, John Kay quit as director of Oxford's Said Business School. Here he suggests what prompted his decision and outlines the problems of a 'declining' organisation. Good morning, and welcome...
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Higher Channels
You don’t have to be a dendrophile to enjoy BBC2’s Meetings with Remarkable Trees series; history comes into it, too. This week, two special trees get their ten-minutes’ worth: on Friday (9.50; 10.20...
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Textbook Guide, 24 November 2000
Inside this week's THES is our 28-page autumn Textbook Guide.The featured subjects are: politics languages and linguistics psychology and psychiatry mathematics and physics engineering Here online...
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Latest UK news
New chairman for funding council David Young, deputy chairman of the John Lewis Partnership and a former treasurer of the Open University, will chair the Higher Education Funding Council for England...