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Milton lost in single-mindedness
The Life of John Milton - How Milton Works
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a non-philosophical work by a 20th-century philosopher-activist: "Idealism is the offspring of...
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Delivered from the scholarly clique
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume VII (Modernism and the New Criticism)
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A shy man sent among Nazi beasts
The Double Bond - Primo Levi
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Successful gamble in life's lottery
Living Proof
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Laurie Taylor
" New code of practice at the University of Central England requires all academics to provide specific details of the work they have been doing on those days when they claim to be 'working at home...
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Leader: Soup-to-nuts multiversity is the right recipe
Diversity is the new holy grail of higher education policy; so easy to extol, so hard to achieve. Two models are emerging: diversity between institutions and diversity within institutions. Diversity...
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Leader: Time to let go of sinking national pay schemes?
Unions are clinging to national pay bargaining while all around tides of differential pay are rising. Professors have flown the coop, their pay negotiated individually. This route, together with...
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Idea cut down to size
The THES helps perpetuate a highly ideological definition 01 aggression ("Rage and the human race", THES , April 12) by looking at only evolution- ary and genetic versus social conditioning accounts...
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In brief 1
First-year students' failure to engage with their studies is a question of orientation as well as motivation ("You can't count on the carefree", THES , March 29). My research suggests that most first...
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In brief 2
Evan Harris does not know what meritocracy is. It is taking people on the basis of performance. We do that for football and opera, where arguments for affirmative action are never heard. Affirmative...
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In brief 3
Michael Loughlin argues that "audit quality" in higher education is intellectually untenable (Features, THES , March 22). This has huge implications. Quality assurance is a sham. Thousands make a...
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In brief 4
The United Kingdom spends about 1 per cent of gross domestic product on higher education compared with 3 per cent in the United States ("Show us the money, Mr Brown", THES , April 12). Both spend...
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Management bullies 1
As effective as vice-chancellors and their advisers are at imposing their will unchallenged on governing bodies, when it comes to middle managers, such as professors and heads of department, they are...