From where I sit - Why is a bestseller worthless?
"Those who can't do, teach; those who really can't do, publish" - so said ߣߣÊÓƵ's best-regarded talk-show host, Andrew Denton. He was speaking rather cheekily on his show, Enough Rope, to Jann...
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Can't Work. Won't Work
"Another first for Poppleton." Those were the triumphant words used by our Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, as she announced the introduction from this September of a brand-new BA...
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One cheer for Brian Roper
Alan Ryan muses on the London Met chief's views on state funding for Oxbridge
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Off Piste: Courtesy calls
Kevin McCarron considers doggy bags and Debrett's, passing the port and choosing urinals, and why simple good manners really do make the man
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Leader: Poor show on finance assistance
Bursaries should remove barriers to participation, but instead they confuse and perhaps even deter those they were intended to help
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John Usher, 1945-2008
John Usher, a leading authority on European law, has died.He was born in Cheshire on 12 August 1945 and educated at Hyde Grammar School and Newcastle University before receiving a scholarship to...
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Cultivate curiosity
In Frank Burnet's article "Pick'n'mix not so sweet" (6 November), he reports that his experience "has been that few things upset students more than the suggestion that it might be necessary to...
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Stretching understanding
Tim Birkhead's report that some school biology textbooks say there is a purpose behind the laying of eggs in great quantities by fish ("How duff exams spawn failure", 13 November) would make you...
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Paradigmatic prison
Edzard Ernst (Letters, 6 November) is wrong in claiming that students of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) do not understand "critical thinking".Precisely the reverse is the case, with CAM...
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Classified targets
John Holford's article "There is a wider purpose for universities than 'serving the economy'" (13 November) rightly draws critical attention to the Government's compression of the definition of...
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Creature comforts
I don't know which was more alarming about Bob Blaisdell's article on teaching ("You can lead cattle to water but you can't make them think", 13 November): his belief that the treatment of cattle at...
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Privileged discussions
Might I reassure Robert Nancarrow (Letters, 13 November)? Evidence submitted to any Parliamentary Select Committee is covered by absolute privilege. Furthermore, an employer who disciplines an...
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Down to a T
Reading "No change in ranking for Poppleton" (13 November) reminded me of how far we've come, in factitious terms, from "Don's diary" to "The Poppletonian", a move accompanying that from The THES to...
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Halt the expansion of quality bureaucracy
Oh dear, it never ends. You report that Roger Brown is calling for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) to be given a role in reviewing universities' degree-awarding powers, and for its remit to be...
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Reject a police role
It is to be hoped that there will be wide support for the call for the withdrawal of Home Office rules requiring the surveillance of overseas students issued by the National Critical Lawyers Group...