Hybrid Bhabha
Can Homi Bhabha's work in academia really combat racism in the Metropolitan Police? Jennifer Wallace talks to the would-be champion ofthe oppressed Human rights are relational rather than given. They...
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Intrigue in a Cambridge rose garden
What happens when a handful of women try to transform a college that has been a bastion of male scholarship in Cambridge for 700 years? Peterhouse's eight women fellows reveal all It's hard to change...
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Are there still two hopelessly divided cultures?
No: Simon Jenkins, The Times columnist "Snow drew a false dichotomy. There is one culture and science is a specialism within it in the same way that archaeology or mathematics or languages are all...
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'Thirty years ago the cultures at least managed a frozen smile across the gulf. Now the politeness has gone and they just make faces'
So said C. P. Snow in his famous 'Two cultures' lecture. What's changed 40 years on? Simon Midgley finds out Forty years ago Charles Percy Snow, scientist, public administrator and novelist, coined a...
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Higher channels
John Davies casts an academic eye over the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Should we take Europe's far right seriously? BBC2 thinks so; this week it has a "season" about it...
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A history of gripping invention
TV's Bionic Man inspired Peter Kyberd to invent a microprocessor-controlled artificial hand. Alison Goddard reports on the young scientist giving one of the Royal Institution's 200th anniversary...
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Friction in the diction
Psychologist Steven Pinker calls Noam Chomsky 'a pen and paper theoretician', while Chomsky criticises Pinker's 'terrible reasoning'. Now Pinker is further testing Chomsky's controversial language...
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CVCP reforms go back to drawing board
Vice-chancellors have called for a rethink on proposals for an overhaul of their representative body. They have told a working group reviewing the membership and structure of the Committee of Vice-...
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Head for IT
Simon Marsden, director of management information at the University of Edinburgh, has been elected chair of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). www.ucisa.ac.uk.
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Triple link
Peterborough Regional College has installed a Pounds 200,000 network linking three sites on two "virtual LANs" for students and staff. The Nortel Networks Gigabit Ethernet solution, installed by...
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Correction
The salary increase for Paisley University's vice-chancellor, Richard Shaw, in The THES league table of salaries (February 5) between 1996-97 and 1997-98 is 3 per cent and not 11.1 per cent. This...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES..we asked how you split the child care Penelope Griffin Equity research officerUniversity of South Australia By moving back to Australia. Child care for our 16-month-old...
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Agony Aunt
Q) Shouldn't universities be promoting lecturers on the basis of their teaching ability rather than just their publication record? A frustrated pedagogue A) Yes they should and, more critically, they...
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`Why enrol at poppleton when you can study at harvard?'
British universities and colleges are poorly organised to take advantage of the globalisation of higher education. So warns a discussion paper on higher education in the 21st century prepared by...
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Calls for intellectual property agreement
The Association of University Teachers wants a "fairer" agreement on intellectual property rights between academics, employers and publishers. The union has drawn up a draft "model agreement" and...