Private function
Who benefits from the Private Finance Initiative? First the taxpayer, if you start from the view that spending less is to taxpayers' advantage even if it means crumbling infrastructure. More than two...
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Cracks in foundation
We would like to point out that the complaints described in the front page article (THES, January 12) were not directed at the longstanding course run jointly by the Cambridge University Counselling...
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Whither Luther and the good book
Jennie Brookman (THES, January 12) reported on the discovery of an old Latin Bible that is supposed to be Martin Luther's personal copy, which he used at Wartburg to render the New Testament into the...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. It is seven weeks since I arrived in Bratislava, but I am still trying to find the social work department, one of two in which my European chair, organised by the Institute for Human Sciences...
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The placebo dilemma
Jack Howell (THES, January 19) suggests that an alternative therapy is not invalidated if it improves a medical condition by "the placebo effect". This contradicts his earlier view that a double-...
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The sprint into print
Whatever else is being cut back in the thrifty 1990s, it certainly isn't investment in university presses. John Davies reports. Edinburgh has one but Glasgow hasn't. Durham hasn't but Exeter has....
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Explain tarot and learn to teach
As manager of the Kingsway Centre and the person responsible for the alternative cultures courses in our leisure programme for this year, I feel I should answer some of the points you made (Opinion,...
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Chock-a-block
(Photograph) - Chock-a-block: New York based artist Ik-Joong Kang with "Buddha eating chocolate", one of the exhibits at his "I am not what I am" exhibition that opened at Leeds Metropolitan...
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Nigerian chemist forced to quit Britain
A Nigerian PhD student conducting important research in to renewable natural resources at Bradford University is being forced to leave the United Kingdom and abandon his work. Jonathan Obaje is a...
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Ministers eye tuition fees
Alternative funding for higher education, including tuition fees, is needed if expansion is to continue, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development education ministers have agreed. In a...
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Double-or-quit threat to science
The Government has launched an Pounds 18 million scheme for funding research equipment in the hope that its investment will be doubled from private sources. Universities will be allowed to bid for...
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India ignored
How can Peter Harris (World View, THES April 14) talk of Asia without showing a trace of awareness of the Indian subcontinent? A consideration of the variety of Indian attitudes to democracy, for...
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Dismissed at a moment's notice
For the past five years I have worked as a part-time lecturer in the department of adult education at Hull University. Last month I was dismissed at a moment's notice and without any prior warning by...
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The scenic view
Simon Targett talks to the irreverent historian of landscape and descendant of Lithuanian loggers, Simon Schama. Simon Schama never knew Sir Percy Winfield. The old Cambridge lawyer had been dead ten...
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Dogmas and pet theories
Rupert Sheldrake, regarded as a heretic by many biologists, argues for experiments that he believes could revolutionise understanding of the mind. The still-dominant paradigm in institutional biology...