'Delivery'? We are teachers, not milkmen
Today's corporate vocabulary, freely and unthinkingly deployed by university leaders, was a product of the military. It was then adopted by the first modern big businesses, the railways, in the 19th...
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Leading questions
If ߣߣÊÓƵ were an academic journal, it would have been particularly pleasing to have been its guest editor last week. There are so many clear conceptual links between the articles...
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Woolf code no panacea
The Woolf report recommends that the London School of Economics should have an "embedded code of ethics and reputational risk" ("LSE's 'mistakes were legion' in Libyan dealings, Woolf finds", 1...
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Political lobby
It's a bit late to start worrying about a possible fall in state school applications to more selective institutions as more students choose to study at home to reduce costs ("Elite fear fall in...
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Critical mass effects
In their different ways, Malcolm Gillies ("Thou shalt not sit on fences", 1 December) and John Mair ("Breaking the news mould", 1 December) help us to think beyond the academy's conventional "regime...
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Bring the bags to the room
The University of Cumbria's Peter Ovens confirms my own experiences ("To spoon-feed is not to nurture", 24 November). I recently helped out on the computing services help-desk of a 1994 Group...
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Illogical principles
Regarding "Welsh government rules on Glyndwr merger proposals": while I am pleased for Glyndwr University that it has avoided a forced merger, I fear this may only be a stay of execution.However, I...
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Penn State of redress
"Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector's pact with the drop-kick devil" (24 November), your article on the domination of many US universities by sport and its financial clout, offers little that is new....
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Film review: Mysteries of Lisbon
This set of melodramatic interconnected tales is a visual delight - but take a cushion, says Duncan Wu
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TV review: Churches: How to Read Them
The Church was the heart of medieval life, says Gary Day, full of symbolism, beauty and grotesqueries
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Julia Swindells, 1951-2011
Julia Swindells was a "reluctant academic star" who, despite making Cambridge her home, "always remained a Northerner in her heart".Professor Swindells was born in Macclesfield on 13 August 1951, and...
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Campus round-up
University of LiverpoolTurn the page on painA new research centre will explore how reading can help sufferers of serious health conditions including depression, dementia and chronic pain. The...
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Odds and quads
John Hunter (1728-93) has been called the "father of modern surgery", since he was the first to apply a truly scientific methodology to the medical procedure.
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