King of spin Max donates Pounds 25,000
Max Clifford, show business publicist and public relations guru, has made a Pounds 25,000 benefaction to Bournemouth University to help disabled students access media studies courses. He will also...
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Lessons from the American model - 'let things run a bit rather than try to control them from the centre'
Key members of United Kingdom higher education are absorbing the entrepreneurial ways of the United States. Tony Tysome reports Politicians, civil servants and institutional heads are once again...
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IQ confusion
It was difficult to ignore Rosalind Arden's many fallacies ("g whiz! IQ is a clever concept", THES, December 3), even before Ken Richardson's subsequent demolition (Letters, THES, December 10). Thus...
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SOAS fellowships
I do not wish to prolong the debate about the two fellowships at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Iranian studies, especially now that the SOAS academic board and governing body have...
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Bloomsbury set-to
The plot thickens. Tom Arden (Letters, THES, December 10) claims that there is a second passage in Lucky Jim, ending "No, not Bloomsbury". Unless the Gollancz edition of 1954 was changed for the...
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Natfhe and North Brum
We are writing to clarify the statements made by Joan Short, principal of North Birmingham College (Letters, THES, December 3). Natfhe is by far the largest union in North Birmingham College,...
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Figure skating
Concern has been expressed at the drop-out rate in UK universities (THES, December 3), in particular the national average of students failing to complete a degree (18 per cent) and the poor...
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Welsh mergers
Governors have not given the go-ahead for a merger between the University of Wales College, Newport, and the University of Wales, Lampeter (For the Record, THES, December 3). They have agreed for...
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Illiberal liberalism of Islamophobia
We are extremely angry over the review by Radhakrishnan Nayar of the three different titles recently published by us focusing on diverse issues in Pakistan's career since its independence in 1947....
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Last form of alienation
The bishop of Oxford makes the excellent point that the writings of 19th-century atheists tend to be unread. ("Unsuitable tenants for an empty sanctuary", THES, December 10.) How I wish the bishop...
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All hail the electronic grapevine
Getting the Message
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an unfinished novel whose protagonist is loosely based on an MGM producer: " Though I haven't ever...
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Pushing at the limits of credulity
The Deep Hot Biosphere
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A work of art even greater than 'Cats': the human body
The Art of Genes
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Adventures in the way we see
Colour and Meaning