Voices unite against top-up fees
Controversial proposals for the introduction of top-up fees were condemned this week by economists, students, headteachers, lecturers' unions and further education leaders, while vice-chancellors...
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Plan for 'instant' degrees abandoned
Oxford Brookes University has pulled out of a deal to award "instant" degrees to part-qualified professional accountancy students without requiring them to do any additional work at university....
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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 that has a winged Cockney heroine: " 'Lor' love you, sir!' Fevvers sang out in a voice that...
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Sharp exchange over the blunt scythe of selection
Alas, Poor Darwin - Dear Mr Darwin - The Mating Mind - A Natural History of Rape
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Evil designs of pillage upon a complex cultural canvas
The Faustian Bargain
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Perchance to dream... of treacle
The Annotated Alice
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Sex and drugs and serious thought
A Brief History of the Future
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Social life of the worldwide web
Weaving the Web
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California dreaming of a nice cup of tea
Stuck in American suburbia with a sick girlfriend and a book to write... Nick Groom kicks off a three-part series on academic sabbaticals. I needed a change. What will appear on the CV is something...
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Higher channels
John Davies gives the schedules a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Money is still a major preoccupation this week. The day after part two of Peter Jay's Road to Riches (...
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When 'ippies didn't wear Bede
Sheila Rowbotham on what it was like to be a student in the 1960s and why the era's educational vision is still valid today. One of the great mysteries is how people get hooked on education. It was...
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Are sabbaticals being phased out?
With never-ending teaching and administrative commitments, finding time to write a book, visit a distant library, or carry out experiments is a challenge. That is why the sabbatical - that period of...
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'Blunkett is in denial of his impairment as an experience'
Disability theorist Paul Darke (right) has an MA in American literature from Keele and a PhD in film studies from Warwick. His doctorate probed the pernicious stereotyping of disability in films - "...
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1.2% of profs... 11% of the UK workforce
For disabled academics facingdiscrimination, new figures in The THES speak for themselves. Helen Hague reports. Eleven per cent of adults in work are disabled - but only 1.2 per cent of professors in...
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In Everyman's footsteps
Geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza says there is no scientific basis for race. Now his latest project has been attacked for bigotry. Ayala Ochert reports. US President Bill Clinton was full of praise...