Reform elections before the timebomb explodes
First-past-the-post must go or British politics becomes farce, write Patrick Dunleavy and Helen Margetts This week's Congressional mid-term elections will remind us all that first-past-the-post...
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New politicians, new ball game
Lindsay Paterson, professor of education policy studies at Edinburgh University, is building a career as a conference Cassandra, expressing uncomfortable views. Last autumn, he warned an Association...
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Agathangelou defended
May I correct some statements in the letter "Project defended" (Letters, THES, October 30). First, I was suspended by the University of Newcastle after, not before, I raised serious concerns with the...
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Agathangelou defended
I represented Anthony Agathangelou in his hearing on behalf of Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards alongside a senior Association of University Teachers representative. Janet Walker...
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Wide of the Mark
To misquote Oscar Wilde once may be regarded as a misfortune. To attribute a quotation to him as comprehensively as Anthea Millett did (Letters, THES, October 30) looks like the sort of carelessness...
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Spoonfeedback
I have some sympathy with John France ("Ditch the dialogue of the daft", Letters, THES, October 30). When I was a young interviewer, I hated being inspected and assessed and convinced myself I was...
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War with some justice
Niall Ferguson ("Battle of the dons of war", THES, October 30) and I both had grandfathers who served in the first world war, but our conclusions about our their experiences are rather different....
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Wise investment earns interest
The answer to the question posed by Francis Green, "Can economics stem a drop in (student) interest rates?" (THES, October 30), is an emphatic "Yes", provided academic economists react creatively and...
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Fee enterprise
Like Peter Messent ("All work, no fee", Letters, THES, October 30) I was recently asked to undertake a significant piece of reading, critical evaluation and final report for no fee. My work was for a...
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Premature publication
As someone involved in the humanities and who chaired a panel in 1993, can I add my voice to concerns about the long-term damage inflicted on scholarship by research assessment exercises ("Out for...
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They go to the disco, buy Jackie, watch a vid, catch a soap, go to the match, have a fuck, weep for Di, love k.d. lang ...
Valentine Cunningham laments the cultural drift of English As English studies dip towards the millennial tape it is clear they are threatened by the prospect of absorption into "cultural studies"....
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Why I ... do not want to be Poet Laureate
Poet and Oxford English fellow Craig Raine was once asked to leave the Bodleian library for "laughing repeatedly" over Ted Hughes's The Iron Man. The chattering classes may be busy compiling lists of...
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Designs for a material life
Sustainable product design is vital to cutting the contribution of consumer goods to environmental pollution, writes Kam Patel Following concerted attempts by governments worldwide to cut industrial...
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Guinea-Bissau loses national archive to war
The war that erupted earlier this yearin the West African republic of Guinea-Bissau has resulted in the destructionof the country's largest and most active researchinstitution. The complex housing...
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China establishes research centre
China has set up a huge natural science and high technology innovation research centre to supportthe country's fast-growing economic and social development strategies. The centre willbe under the...