Confucius and chips
They will be dancing in the streets of the Chinese capital Beijing tonight, as they do every night. There will be long, sinuous serpentine dragon dances in the quiet squares, and, in the underpasses...
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A level guide to ability
I waited with increasing frustration for Simon Szreter to entertain the notion that those studying for A levels in the hard sciences and in languages might be more likely to achieve high grades...
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A level guide to ability
Two of the four letters responding to my article (Personal View, THES, November 17) on the national scandal of disparate A-level grades in different subjects, referred with great confidence to "...
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Brutality management
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
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Less Minerva, more Venus
Tim Cornwell discovers that sex is contributing to the demise of an American academic institution. John Rawls's Theory of Justice began life as a monograph; so did Benedict Anderson's "imagined...
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Driven to crime
Lecturer Jim Hawes is on the road to fame and fortune with his first novel, A White Merc with Fins. Huw Richards reports. Hawes the novelist Brady wanted a real gun, he insisted on a real gun, the...
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Professors on move
I was surprised at the letter headed "Amazing dancing profs". Surely the writer and subeditor know that Christopher Bannerman has the chair in dance at Middlesex University, and is internationally...
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Silence on funding rules does not mean assent
Graeme Davies is disingenuous in interpreting "the relative silence of the academic community over the current funding model as assent". Those of us who have suffered most from a system designed to...
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GNVQs trip up at the red tape
My article on a national curriculum was missing the final sentence from the submitted manuscript. That sentence read: "We do, however, need urgently to establish a national forum drawing in all...
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Women who must be heard
The delegates, almost all female, at last week's British Association meeting on careers for women in science, technology and engineering were both impressive and depressing. Impressive because of the...
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Old papal haunts get a facelift
The University of Viterbo, one of Italy's youngest state universities, is taking over and restoring some of the most interesting medieval and renaissance buildings in the old Papal stronghold of...
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Rectors enter French fray
University presidents stepped into the student-led fray over reforms in French higher education with their own list of demands and a flat rejection of at least one proposal by education minister...
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Campus rabbis in sedition probe
Bar-Ilan University, one of whose law students murdered Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, has set up a committee headed by a retired judge to investigate claims of extremism on campus. The...
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Poverty protest
The National Union of Students organised a march to protest at increasing student hardship on Thursday. At a rally in Kennington Park, London, NUS president Jim Murphy said: "We are calling on the...