Vantastic voyage home
(Photograph) - The pop music superstar who advised "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" is to teach after all. Singer-song writer Van Morrison is to turn his talents to lecturing in his home territory of...
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Graduates get 12-month guarantee
A growing number of colleges in the United States are sending graduates to the job market backed by a 12-month guarantee against a defective education. They promise future employers that if their...
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Electronic access to Public Records Office plea
Historians are launching a campaign for easier access to the archives held by former imperial powers such as Britain. The Public Record Office at Kew in London came in for particularly heavy...
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Israeli steps to Arab integration
In reference to "Arab call for jobs in Israel's academia" (THES, August 18), we would like to inform you that steps have already been taken to increase the number of Arab tenured academic staff in...
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So when is a PhD not a PhD?
Dr Piercemuller, I see, takes his duties as the supervisor of PhD students as seriously as he does his other responsibilities! He is, I trust, an isolated survivor from an earlier epoch. If one thing...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Arrive in Cape Town for a five-day return visit to five South African universities. In January a number of South African universities came to see us as a good example of a multicultural...
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Life has always been held cheap
Peter Singer's thesis about changing views of life and death (THES, August 18) is based on a fallacy - that "the traditional sanctity of life ethic" has lasted "for nearly 2,000 years". In fact this...
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Solution to Lottery squabbles
The public (or rather the media) is constantly squabbling about what to do with the National Lottery money (THES, August 25). What suits one section of society will never suit the rest. Camelot could...
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Scots funding formula
Following the report (THES, August 11) by your Scottish editor on the comments made by Chris Masters relating to the recently revealed quality assessments, I feel that there are two points which, in...
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A butterfly in full flight
James McNeill Whistler
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A life of his own
Giorgio Vasari
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A select gathering
Measuring the Mind
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Ancient cruelty of classic proportions
The Eye of the Beholder
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Bifurcated libidos
Banishing the Beast - The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes - Talk Dirty to Me - Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature
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Colourful lives and affairs of the art
Portraits of Women