Cross-border gains
We refer to your recent article by Paul McGill concerning the number of students from Northern Ireland pursuing their higher education in the Republic of Ireland (THES, December 8). Our first point...
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Should FE college governors be paid?
There is a long and strong tradition in this country of "voluntary" public service. That must be a good thing. However there does appear to be some muddled thinking in the debate concerning governor...
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China bans social sciences journal
China has ordered a new magazine, allied to the Academy of Social Sciences, to cease publishing. The magazine, which summarises some of the most up-to-date research under way in China's social...
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Hill faces chair fight
Law professor Anita Hill, still a deeply controversial figure four years after her claims that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her transfixed the nation, is to have a...
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Yanks flee hostility
More than 200,000 Americans have migrated to Australia since the second world war. But research shows they are not warmly welcomed and that most Yanks go home. David Mosler, senior lecturer in...
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Universities shape up for a turf war
The regional university looks set to play an important role in the future of British higher education. But is it a good thing? Like buses, universities tend to arrive in groups. After Oxbridge came...
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Momentum in Manchester
It would be a pity if your readers were left with the impression that Manchester's school of education is moving away from its traditional interests in British education ("Dynamic duo head south",...
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How software can teach good grammar
Vincent Mitchell (THES, December 22) chooses to ignore the actual problem facing many present-day students. An important reason why they find it difficult to read books is their inadequate knowledge...
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Time and place
Your typo blunted A. G. Williams's point: The Making of the English Landscape, which inspired so many field archaeologists as well as historians, was published in 1955 not 1995. Before that, for...
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Don's diary
Friday. Ships sails. Have I got all the Hanukkah candles? What about my prayer book? Is the menorah packed as well? I have been engaged as the rabbi on the QE2 Caribbean Christmas and New Year cruise...
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The art of being black
Claire Alexander goes in search of the complex identity of young black Britain that lies behind the popular stereotypes. In the wake of the recent wave of media infatuation, I have to confess that it...
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Relations with poor
Sir Ron Dearing's idea to "enthuse the poor" (THES, October 25) has its origins earlier than the Robbins report. In 1884 the Rev Samuel Barnett opened Toynbee Hall in the Commercial Road, Whitechapel...
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Are students a therapists' gravy train?
Lecturers Laura Spira and Mark Griffiths argue that students face unprecedented stresses and financial hardship today. Both disparage Jennie Bristow's suggestion that if she can handle student life,...
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Are students a therapists' gravy train?
When I read Jennie Bristow's article (THES, October 18) I felt no immediate need to respond as I thought that Laurie Taylor was foxing us by moving his column from the back page. I obviously confused...
