Student role in tutoring
Co-ordinating Student Tutoring Schemes need not cost the earth (THES, May 5). At Aston University, the scheme is expanding rapidly thanks to an innovative approach to recruiting volunteers. The...
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Ruling elite shares an LSE pedigree
Sometimes one wonders about the quality of our leading historians. Correlli Barnett (THES, July 7) refers to a British ruling elite which was "Overwhelmingly . . . the product of an academic humanist...
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Danger in measuring ability by IQ testing
Should James Tooley (THES, July 7) ever have the misfortune to be under the surgeon's knife, I hope that he will be able to take comfort in the fact that the surgeon's IQ was high at the age of ten...
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A marriage is arranged
Merger of the education and employment ministries is long overdue. . . but there are doubters. Mary Warnock warns of the dangers to 'genuine academic education' The marriage of education and training...
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Found wanting, needs judgement
The merging of the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council sectors of higher education meant that the funding of universities coming from varying starting...
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Free range thinking
John Webster believes we spend too much time talking about animal rights and too little minimising animal suffering. Aisling Irwin met him What kind of man can hold, simultaneously, the following two...
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Dons, divas and ruff types
A new exhibition at the Paris Opera has triggered a reappraisal of academe's relationship with the grandest of the performing arts. Stella Hughes reports The grand central staircase and the public...
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The not so magic mountain
David Walker reports on new criticism of Thomas Mann Here, in Britain, literary iconoclasm is a kind of sport, not quite as lucrative as amateur rugby but appealing, it seems, to many readers....
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Onwards and upwards
(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a week of celebrations to mark the London School of Economics's centenary were crowned on Wednesday with the news that the school's professor of international law...
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Britain 1945-95
(Photograph) - In at Number Ten: Since 1945 ten prime ministers have come and nine gone, yet serious historical study of "the twilight years" has only recently been attempted by academics. Next week...
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Safety pins for a safety net
Nicholas Timmins describes the ever-troubled history of the country's welfare state. "It is the same story . . . in every social service. there is greater demand. . . because the standards of the...
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Learning to love biographers
Ben Pimlott stands up for a derided bunch of individuals. A colleague recently told me a story that could have been meant to put me my place. He had been talking over the brandy at an international...
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History as it is bought
John Campbell argues that academics should value the popular appeal of biography. Political biography, as a form of history, comes in for a lot of criticism these days. But serious questions are...
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Slow on the uptake
Eric Roll lists the errors in Britain's postwar economic policy. First one cautionary remark: hindsight can show what should not have been done and what should have been done; but it does not...