Cut-price teaching
Higher Education Trends in this week's THES draws attention to the growing casualisation of the acdemic profession. It is likely, as Lucy Hodges reports (page i), that official figures from the...
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Method not madness
Your article "A subject in the prime of life"(THES, September 13) presents a striking unity of opposites. On the one hand, the decline of mathematics is attributed to its perceived difficulty; on the...
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Strike urge
Lecturers' union Natfhe has announced that it will ballot its 18,000 members in the former polytechnics and HE colleges, urging them to vote for industrial action over this year's 1.5 per cent pay...
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Speaking Volumes: The Grapes of Wrath
John Urry on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . The book that turned me into sociologist was The Grapes of Wrath. I had left school in the mid-1960s as a Thatcherite avant la lettre. I was...
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Alexander Rodchenko's 1920s poster
(Photograph) - Alexander Rodchenko's 1920s poster for Dziga Vertov's Kino Eye: Vertov referred to the camera as a 'cinema eye for the purpose of research into the chaos of visual phenomena filling...
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Beyond surrealism
The Spanish Avant-Garde
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Currency of the Holy Foreskin
Art and Money
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Everything explained
The Force of Symmetry
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Fowl play
The Chicken From Minsk
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Genius smiles quietly
The Collected Works of P.A.M. Dirac
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Kirk and Scotty's lie
The Physics of Star Trek
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Painter, husband, father, sponger
Claude Monet
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Passengers or pushers?
The Future of Anthropological Knowledge
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Pulling together with Einstein
Gravitation and Inertia
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Quarks and their families
The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume One - The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume Two