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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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From where I sit - Scholarship, ubuntu and hope
South Africa is a young society, unsure of itself. The Union was formed in 1910, a republic was declared in 1961, and the black majority won the franchise in 1994. South Africa 3.0 is at a crossroads...
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Hugh Berrington, 1928-2010
A charismatic lecturer on the psychological aspects of politics has died.Hugh Berrington was born in Ewell, Surrey on 12 December 1928. He was educated at Ewell Castle School and, at the age of 15,...
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Research intelligence - We're not paying that much!
Fed up with high journal costs, institutions and scholars are pushing back at publishers. Paul Jump reports
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HEA, don't change the subject centres
Speaking from institutions across the country and the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines, we write to express our profound consternation at the Higher Education Academy's decision to...
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Choice cut (1 of 2)
David Eastwood asks "Who's afraid of student choice?" (11 November) and accuses the academy of "timidity". But the Browne Review designates "priority subjects" without regard to student choice or...
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Choice cut (2 of 2)
Eastwood's defence of the Browne Review relies on wishful thinking. He predicts that "students will enter as discriminating and informed applicants and will study as expectant and committed learners...
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Spirited opposition
Your article "Bristol v-c faced no opposition in bid to become UUK president" (18 November) fails to paint the full picture. Universities UK's strategy regarding the government's cuts programme and...
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Illume the heart of darkness
Yes, a great many so-called "historical" novels are trash ("History in the faking", 18 November). Is War and Peace also trash? I ask mainly because Leo Tolstoy was scathing about the contributions of...
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If always broke, fix it
Peter Geoghegan argues that the massive student protest in London on 10 November reflected real anger and is likely to be the first of many ("Student riots, the first taste of the fruits of unbridled...
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Great - more red tape!
Aaron Porter, the president of the National Union of Students, is absolutely right ("New market, new rules: NUS signals consumer revolution", 18 November). Only by diverting a greater proportion of...
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Law of the excluded middle
As an American teenager, I considered many West Coast and New England institutions, but after a visit to the University of St Andrews, I realised that it was a cheaper option - even with the expense...
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Mission impossible
I'm afraid Martin A. Mills is deluded ("A grand unified theory of man", 18 November). Such a theory is neither possible nor desirable, because it could never accommodate the natural and social...
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Meditation's what you need
Meditation is not a fitting member of a list of "treatments that many regard as having unproven efficacy at best" ("No 'magic bullet': try this amulet", 18 November).The mental-health benefits that...