Leader: Vacancy for champion
Establishing the Higher Education Academy was never going to be easy. The General Teaching Council, the parallel body for English schools, has had a rocky ride and the HEA's agenda is much broader -...
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Did politics help to kill our faith?
I doubt that the public is as sceptical as Sir John Sulston suggests in his excellent article "Why won't the public put their faith in scientists?" (June 10). The problem is the intercession of...
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Out-of-date views
Baroness Greenfield is right to stimulate debate about the future of learning ("Book learning out of date", June 17), but her views about books and libraries are dated. Libraries provide innovative...
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Parents and pressure 2
Macho columnist Frank Furedi can't be scared of a few mums and dads. One wonders if he is more worried that today's conscientious parents might be reading his apparently random articles in The Times...
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Parents and pressure 1
In "Hey, Prof, my dad wants to see you" and the leader "Parents must keep out" (June 24) you write about demanding parents. I teach a lot of international students who are away from home for the...
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Truth behind figures 1
It was disappointing to see in your article "Onward march of the no-research regiment" (June 24) that comments by our deputy vice-chancellor, Jeff Lucas, were taken entirely out of context. Bradford...
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Truth behind figures 2
The articles "20 per cent of staff now just teach" and "Onward march of the no-research regiment" (June 24) are extremely misleading. The figures reflect only a small number of staff on teaching-only...
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Thread of evidence
In Was the Bayeux Tapestry made in France? ("This will really needle les Anglais", June 17), George Beech calls for DNA analysis of bacteria lodged in the threads to determine the place of origin of...
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Wonky tables?
Your article "Bringing meaning to the tables" (June 10) notes the scepticism that newspaper league tables attract in academia. Readers may be interested to learn about The Sunday Times ' method of...
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In a better state
In quoting the modern languages application statistics for Oxford University ("A sorry state of affairs", June 10), the fact that many students apply for joint courses, combining a language with...
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Out of Africa
On the eve of the G8 summit, Karen MacGregor considers the exodus of a continent's brightest In 1979, six African scholarship students met at Oxford University. A South African medical doctor, a...
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'Absent without leave'
Washington Ochieng, reader in geomatics and transport telematics at Imperial College London, says that returning to his homeland of Kenya is not an option. The technology and funding he needs for his...
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Does this man look like a threat?
It took seven hours to wreck Kenneth Good's life, compromise his university's autonomy and expose Botswana's democratic myth. But he still drinks to a bright future At about midday on May 31, I was...
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Clubbing cavemen really rock
Were the caves of Europe once alive with the sound of music? Steven Mithen goes in search of singing Neanderthals A group of Neanderthals sit outside a cave early one morning about 50,000 years ago....
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Muggles board for Reading at platform 9
A conference on Harry Potter will have fans waxing lyrical. But not all share their enthusiasm, says Harriet Swain How far does the muggle world overlap with the wizarding world? What can wizards do...