Seeing off the school bullies
Supporters of comprehensives are to meet in Oxford this month to combat what they see as a right-wing propaganda campaign to discredit a successful state system. Lucy Hodges charts the history of the...
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From the laboratory to the inventor
Richard Swinburne argues that it is perfectly rational to postulate the existence of God in terms that do not contradict scientific theory. Reasons for believing that there is a God have been around...
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Comprehensive schools: the history
Richard Pring and Geoffrey Walford explain why they think comprehensives are worth fighting for. The idea for the comprehensive school, where children of all backgrounds and abilities would be...
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Chapter and verse?
An academic in Germany believes he has found the Bible that Luther translated and which sparked the Reformation. His colleagues are not so sure. Jennie Brookman reports. "Discovered: Martin Luther's...
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Dunce upon a time...
(Photograph) - Dunce upon a time... Before comprehensives, children were divided by the 11-plus exam, with the "brighter" ones going to grammar schools from which they could continue to university...
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Two reports and a fraught future
This year in education we will learn the truth or falsity of the Chinese aphorism that to live in interesting times is a curse rather than a benefit. Two reports awaited with interest are those from...
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Tackle lunatics over asylum
Universities should lead the fight against xenophobic EU laws governing refugees. Ghanaian Kingsley Ofusu survived to tell a gruesome story of murder at sea. His brother and seven other West African...
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Rhyme and reason for nurseries
The higher education sector must recognise that in an era of tight public spending control, the educational needs of children must take precedence, says Josh Hillman. Britain is in the foothills of...
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Nolan number-crunchers
You included two useful, and contrasting, contributions on the Nolan inquiry on standards in public life (Opinion, THES, January 5). However, two other issues about further education corporations...
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Flowers for the engineer
I had the great good fortune to visit several universities and research institutes in China, Taiwan, Japan and India this year. My university, Natal, attaches strategic importance to the development...
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In a region of error
Stephen Court claims to have discovered the next wave of universities - the regionals (THES, January 5). Citing the University of Humberside as an example, he suggests that the market scope of such...
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Re-engineering the learning business
Detlef Mueller-Boeling (World View, THES, December 22) gave an interesting account of higher education as a business, which it clearly is. We provide a service of quality for a price to a mix of...
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Chaos fans make negative positive
It was to be expected that, as one of the leading proponents of chaos and complexity theory in Britain, Ian Stewart (Letters, THES, January 5) would not take kindly to Geoff Mulgan's criticisms of...
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Sponsors' rights and wrongs
I am interested in the views of other readers on the commercial sponsorship of learned societies. The Royal Geographical Society is embroiled in a controversy because it receives Pounds 40,000...
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Nolan number-crunchers
The Nolan committee appears to be concerned with the proverbial mote and cannot see the beam in its own eye. The value system of universities is based not on money, but on academic excellence. It is...