Private decisions and public debates
Turkey's state universities face challenges from business-funded rivals and Islamic activism, writes Dorian Jones. Turkish higher education is set to go through one of its most significant periods of...
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I don't care who you are - just don't bring Mum
The 'process' for granting university places is an out-and-out fraud. An admissions tutor 'fesses up As yet another admissions cycle draws to a close, I've realised, after many long years of being an...
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Gary Day
Would you like to know the angle of an erect penis? Well, more of that later. First, I'm just dying to tell you that books have been branded a health and safety hazard. Yes, that's right. It sounds...
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Time to stop flying in the face of reason
Academics must take collective action to cut their air travel, argues Mathew Humphrey Listening to a piece of classical music doesn't generally involve flying an entire orchestra into my living room...
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CCing red at Sussex
Academic freedom is alive and well at Sussex University's Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU). Staff have responded to a memo from their boss imploring them to stop passing...
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Walters: man of art and action
Friends of Ian Walters, the sculptor whose statue of Nelson Mandela was unveiled in Parliament Square last week, were sad that his death last year prevented him from enjoying his moment in the...
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Slightly too raw data
Coaxing input from students via text message, as Leeds University's Kevin Linch has done ( The Times Higher , August 31), can have drawbacks. In a letter to The Times Higher , Swansea University's...
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Political theory: see Page 3
Eyebrows were raised at the title of a paper for the European consortium for political research this week. Stefano Bartolini's plenary lecture, "The Waning of Cleavages: Should we be Bothered?" may...
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Lashed by the mother tongue
Smug native speakers of English could find themselves left behind in a world that uses it as a lingua franca, says Jennifer Jenkins The global spread of English is leading to unforeseen - and, for...
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Laurie Taylor Column
You have reached the office of Professor Lapping. I am afraid that Professor Lapping is away from his office on annual vacation and cannot be contacted until his return. Maureen, are you there? You...
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Leader: Academy is right to question the use of metrics
There are always more promising proposals for research than can be funded, so some way of deciding on the most deserving is essential. But the sheer variety of scholarly life means that there can...
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The democracy conundrum 1
John Gray's comments on the failure and folly of the forcible democratisation of Iraq are only partly well taken ("The end was nigh", August 31). He writes that it has destroyed a highly developed...
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The democracy conundrum 2
Round One: Enlightenment thinkers have an inherently Utopian and apocalyptic mode of thinking. Round Two: Most Enlightenment thinkers have been piecemeal reformists and advocates of incrementalist...
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Minority report 1
I welcomed the article on minority ethnic students in higher education ("For some, campus is still another country", August 31). Shedding light on this issue is the first step in addressing the...
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Minority report 2
If the images of the young black woman (August 31) were supposed to support the argument that black students are exploited, they were inappropriate and ill-judged. At best they looked like fashion...