Let us keep a sense of proportion
Spotlight on science: Tessa Blackstone defends her view that the proportion of students studying science and engineering should fall. Readers respond. Peter Swinnerton-Dyer suggests a different...
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Two-plus-two step for physics, maths and friends
Spotlight on science: Tessa Blackstone defends her view that the proportion of students studying science and engineering should fall. Readers respond. Peter Swinnerton-Dyer suggests a different...
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Turkey's deepening divides
A SOCIOLOGIST acquaintance at Boghazi University tells me a contemporary Turkish joke: "Our country's application for entrance to the European Union continues to be denied, but now at least Istanbul...
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Spotlight on science
Spotlight on science: Tessa Blackstone defends her view that the proportion of students studyingscience and engineering should fall. Readers respond. Peter Swinnerton-Dyer suggests a different...
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Speaking about medical diversity
YOUR opinion column (THES, October 10) rightly raises some concerns about the transfer of funding for students following "medical subjects" from the Department for Education and Employment to the...
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Republican values
IN HER article (THES, October 17) Stella Hughes highlights the split among French academics over the question of immigration without giving a fair picture of the "republicanists'" position. A summary...
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Balancing the equation
THE debate over lifelong learning (THES, October 10) appears to assume that reconciling the diverse interests of individuals, employers and society at large can all be simply subsumed into the single...
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Balancing the equation
AS WE await publication of the government's white paper on lifelong learning and consider the proper contribution to it of colleges and universities, I do hope the debate will not be conducted by...
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Cultural cold wars
ARTHUR Marwick writes (THES, October 17) that "postmodernism" is based on the Marxist assumption that we live in the bad bourgeois society in which all knowledge is constructed to preserve bourgeois...
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Missing Camus
IN Stella Hughes's article "J'accuse: a history" (THES, October 10), she paraphrases Julia Kristeva's riposte to the chargeslevelled at her by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Kristeva points out that "...
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Disease stalks students
STUDENTS at old universities are more than twice as likely to contract potentially deadly meningococcal diseases than non-students in the same age group, a survey has found. In the week that two...
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Funding for medical schools is slashed
MILLIONS of pounds have been cut from the budgets of several medical schools that failed to score top grades or make significant improvements in last year's research assessment exercise. They now...
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Expert warning on cyber security
UNIVERSITIES must take steps to stop snooping of communication via the Joint Academic Network (Janet)and email, say information technology experts studying electronic security at British universities...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to recognise a book from its opening, comes from an eminent economist who was posthumously institutionalised: "The annual labour of...
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Speaking Volumes: Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Speaking Volumes: Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Eighteen years old, and I should have been revising for my A levels. A trip to the bookshop left me with a 750-...