The perpetual outsider
Anita Desai's latest novel is the first she has written out of India. Andrew Robinson went to meet her. Anita Desai is a novelist read in several languages besides English, a winner of literary...
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The biggest shift since Henry VIII?
The establishment of the Greenwich Observatory by Charles II in 1675 was the state's first venture into funding science. It says something for the wholesale disposal of family silver on which the...
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Trade-offs on road to Dearing success
In most discussions of the Dearing higher education review, attention has legitimately focused on what the French would call the organisational and financial imperatives. That is not to dismiss them...
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A better work ethic
The front-page report, "Bosses to call the shots" (THES, October 18) drives more nails in the coffin of academic and intellectual independence from the ideology of the free market. Populist measures...
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Divided perks of teaching and research
Your editorial highlighted the trend for rewards in both the private and public sector to become concentrated in the hands of a small number of individuals, while others enjoy no perks or even paid...
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Missed mission
Educated by missionaries, then into the army at the age of 18. Just the sort of education guaranteed to produce the ideal citizen in these morally challenged times - or so you would think from some...
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A laureate accused
A 72-year-old Nobel laureate has been accused of sexually molesting a minor, one of 54 boys he looked after from Papua New Guinea. A journal he kept during his time in the tropics might lend some...
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Academic accused of forgery
A PROFESSOR of the Albanophone University of Pristina is facing charges of forgery for signing the degree diploma conferred on an ethnic Albanian from Montenegro. The Montenegrin authorities do not...
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Polish minister avoids press
Journalists covering a lecture by Polish education minister Jerzy Wiatr at the University of Lodz were ejected from the building last week. The journalists were grabbed and thrown down steps by men,...
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The great and not so good
Suman Gupta argues that a writer's racism does affect his or her literary status. The debate that followed the publication of T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, an attack on Eliot's anti-...
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Junior civil service can damage health
LOW-RANKING civil servants are much more likely to die before their professional and executive level counterparts, a long-term study has found. The research shows that work itself, not just...
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