Lesson in communal creativity
Chinua Achebe
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Three men on a mission
King Khama and the Great White Queen
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Pseuds warning
WHY do you commission book reviews from people who believe that any amount of pretentious nonsense is acceptable, providing that it is written badly enough? Edward Neill's review of Queer Forster (...
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Transfer market troubles
John Hudson asks "what is wrong with (the) academic 'transfer market'" induced by recent research assessment exercises (THES, July 31)? I would like to offer two related answers. The first is that it...
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Transfer market troubles
John Hudson's comparison of the football and so-called "academic transfer market" completely ignores the effect of any transfer market on the "customers" of these activities. The football transfer...
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Transfer market troubles
There may indeed be "nothing wrong" with an academic transfer market as such, but there is a good deal wrong with the distorting effects which the RAE is having on research and the structure and...
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The wrong Derby
MY letter (THES, June 26) about collegial governance went on to list new universities at which there had been allegations of mismanagement and/or corruption. I inadvertently referred to Derby: I had...
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Not enough holistic government here
Now we know which ministers have earned the order of the boot, and whose "old-fashioned sycophancy", as the prime minister so delicately puts it, has appealed to him most. The nation's views on...
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Don's Diary
Monday Attend the faculty research committee. This represents the culmination of a vast trawling exercise into the status, location, performance and solvency of every student in the large graduate...
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Chairs
London School of Economics and Political Science Paul Davies, professor of the law of enterprise at the University of Oxford and fellow of Balliol College, Cassel professor of commercial law; David...
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Honorary degrees
University of Southampton DSc: David Rhind, incoming vice-chancellor of City University, director-general of the Ordnance Survey, visiting professor in the university's department of geography; The...
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'Bargains' lure Asians
British universities have started an "irresponsible" recruitment war for overseas students affected by the South-east Asian currency crisis, it was claimed this week. Many are offering "bargain...
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FEFC is told to get tough
The public spending watchdog has blamed "weak management" in colleges for further education's financial crisis and has called on the Further Education Funding Council to be more "proactive". In a...
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Disability row strikes Hallam
A row over disability discrimination at Sheffield Hallam University has erupted over an inquiry by MPs into disability rights. Cedric Pugh, professor of urban and regional studies, who has the muscle...
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Students take over army base
Students will replace soldiers as the United States relinquishes control of the Panama Canal in 2000. Plans are well advanced for a vast tax-free higher education and research facility on sites left...