'Like all art, pop music deserves discussion'
PROFILE : JOE WILSON COURSE LEADER, POPULAR MUSIC, GLOUCESTERSHIRE UNIVERSITY Leaving a party for pop star Janet Jackson in the US, Joe Wilson recalls sharing a lift with members of the hip-hop act...
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'Cool Japan' suffers from cruel cuts
Nicola Liscutin, a lecturer in Japanese studies, is in no doubt as to why the subject is one of the fastest growing in the UK: it is the lure of "cool Japan". Today's students have grown up on...
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Katrina-hit campuses try to return to normal
Two years on from the New Orleans hurricane, Jon Marcus reports on a higher education sector still in turmoil The biggest drama at Tulane University in New Orleans during its first few weeks of term...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Universities are requiring academics to abandon their own offices for seats in new open-plan spaces" - The Times Higher , September 28 From: The Large Well-Appointed Office of the Head of Corporate...
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'In the US, invoking offended feelings is morally equivalent to saying you feel raped, starved or strangled'
Disagreement is one the greatest sources of pleasure available to intellectuals. If I find someone agrees with me, I think it's time to change my mind. Academics' lust to ban speakers because they...
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Leader: 'One-size-fits-all' degrees are a public disservice
Do universities provide a public service? The answer is unquestionably "yes". An advanced society needs trained people in increasing numbers, and only a university can produce them. It needs the kind...
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Open plan needs good planning
Having been both an open-plan office inhabitant and a location-independent, flexibly working "road warrior", I can report that in the corporate world both types of environment can and do work - for...
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The real pay figures
Your analysis in the article "Pay spending lags behind" (September 21) does not do justice to the intellectual sophistication of your readership. The oversimplification of Organisation for Economic...
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Elusive evidence 1
Graham Gibbs describes support in a student survey for more teacher training as "striking" ("Part-time effort for full-time degrees", September 28). What is really striking is the very thin basis for...
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Elusive evidence 2
In the "for and against" rankings a few weeks ago ("Debate reignited by new league tables", August 17), you omitted one of the most telling factors against, which is again relevant in the students...
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Citing the obvious
The error I discovered in the Thompson Scientific ISI database ("Metrics marred by doubt", September 21) could not have arisen because of "the way a citation had been written", as alleged by the...
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UCU pursues fairness
Hazel Dewart questioned the marginally higher level of subscription charged to former Natfhe members as opposed to former Association of University Teachers members of the University and College...
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Make it simple
Ben Goldacre criticises my attack on the Ingelfinger rule on the grounds that journalists cannot be trusted to report research accurately, no matter at what stage of the publication process a paper...
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Wine and poses
Julian Baggini ends his review of Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine (Books, September 21) by telling us it "is to be... enjoyed... because the questions it wrestles with will intoxicate the...
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Don't stint on maths
Jim Al-Khalili argues that one should not consider the new ISciences degrees to be a "science-lite soft option" but rather the gateway to "a career in some cutting-edge research field" (Opinion,...