From where I sit - The never-ending sentence
Run-on sentences are the new apostrophe. By that I mean that a lack of knowledge about where to put a full stop is prevalent in more students than the misuse of apostrophes. That is saying something....
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Robert Sang, 1948-2009
Robert Sang, the UK's first professor of patient and public involvement in health, has died.Born in Edinburgh on March 1948, he spent much of his early life in southern England, where his father was...
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Win-win way to square the funding circle 1
This summer there will be 40,000 more unsuccessful university applicants than there were in 2008. This is because we have seen an 8 per cent rise in the number of applications, but institutions won't...
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Win-win way to square the funding circle 2
I fail to understand the disagreements about who should pay for the desperately needed increases in university funding. The relevant free-market principle is "he who pays benefits, he who benefits...
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Time, Space, Stars and Man: The Story of the Big Bang
Time, Space, Stars and Man is a detailed introduction to our current understanding of the science of Life, the Universe and (almost) Everything. We are led from an explanation of the Big Bang,...
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The Meaning of Sarkozy
Raymond Kuhn thinks a disparaging volume about the French President should offer deeper analysis
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A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City
Most cities trigger immediate visual associations: in Berlin's case, for example, they are of the Wall that once divided it, or the iconic Brandenburg Gate. One may also think of the Trummerfrauen (...
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Choosing Life, Choosing Death: The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Ethics and Law
Since the 1960s we have moved rapidly from a "doctor knows best" society in which medical paternalism was common, towards a society that celebrates patients' rights to make informed decisions about...
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Published this week
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- EvolutionBy Douglas Futuyma, distinguished professor of ecology and evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Palgrave Macmillan, £40.99. ISBN 9780878932238Futuyma...
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Win-win way to square the funding circle 3
Your leading article proclaims that universities "have been doing much more for much less" ("Unite to fight the betrayal", 25 July). Pardon? Have they not seen major increases in undergraduate...
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Very superstitious
This year's Reith lecturer, Michael Sandel, has revealed his conservatism. During his first two talks, the Harvard University professor was at pains to appear open-minded. We had to wait for his...
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Cultural creationism
Angela McRobbie recommends Judith Butler's new book, Frames of War, for its "clear thread of continuity" with her early work in Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter, but that is a damning indictment...
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Greens need big pinch of salt
I was dismayed to learn that People and Planet had given ߣߣÊÓƵ incorrect data for the recently published Green League table ("How green is my tally?", 18 June).As a result, my...
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Be honest about externals
Problems relating to the role of external examiners are unlikely to be resolved easily, especially given the idea that universities are not replicas of each other, so a central body responsible for...
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Protect our sources
Alec Gill blithely assumes that the rest of the world is like his own niche ("Let's simplify referencing", 25 June). The author-date system is, for good reason, unknown in my field and in many other...