In praise of history
Penelope Corfield regrets the absence of grand narratives in the field of history. However, such books were certainly published within living memory. I recall Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History as...
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The cap doesn't fit
It seems that Bill Rammell (Letters, August 3) is a little too preoccupied with UK universities competing on an international stage to notice the concerns some institutions have on a national level....
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Know your quartiles
Paul Wellings, vice-chancellor of Lancaster University, claims that his university "is now in the top quartile of UK institutions" (Letters, July 20). No university is that, since a quartile is not a...
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Time not to care
In his review of Pascal Richet's A Natural History of Time (Books, August 10), Keith Thomson says that philosophers, faced with conundrums such as "What is time?" or "Does time exist if nothing is...
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How Turnitin works
While being entertained by your neo-oxymoronic "self-plagiarising" ("Self plagiarising lecturer exposes software failings", July ), I was disappointed to see your description of Turnitin as "...
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Faulty genes?
I read with great amusement the front-page news of James Watson's latest idea that social ineptness and misogyny might be nothing more than a quirk in the genetic set-up of poor fellows like Larry...
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Double-publish and be damned
Is the RAE behind academics' lack of respect for books or is it just a case of old-fashioned dishonesty, wonders Tim Birkhead Books are up against it. Undergraduates are increasingly reluctant to...
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Lend support to students' PAL
Peer-assisted learning allows advanced students, such as third-years, to help new students to develop their study skills. It's not, however, an excuse for lecturers to put their feet up, as Harriet...
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Going ape for medical innovations
Name - Ruth Wilcox Age: 32 Job: Lecturer in the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Leeds University. Salary: Enough to satisfy my need for chocolate...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'After a recent impact assessment of academic staff recruitment, our head of department...
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Who's in, who's out?
Exeter. Nick Groom is one of 33 new Exeter University teaching and research staff joining the Tremough Campus in Cornwall. Degrees in law, history, politics and Cornish studies are being added to the...
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New anti-cheating body to push for 'honour codes'
Higher Education Integrity Service will help to tackle disparities in policy and penalties. Phil Baty reports. A new service dedicated to helping academics fight the rise of student plagiarism will...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"If universities stop investigating parapsychology... then society will be poorer for it" - Editorial, The Times Higher, August 10 University of Poppleton From: Jamie Targett, Director of Corporate...
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A maid of one's own
Virginia Woolf's diaries reveal the ambivalence of her feelings towards servants, says Alison Light. Nonetheless, domestic staff as a class were more assertive and confident of their rights than is...
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Service without servitude
Some time in late 1785, Mary Cant, a Nottinghamshire maidservant, stormed into Sir Gervase Clifton's justicing room to complain that "her master treats her very ill by striking her over the head"....