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Tom Hickey is right that it is my job to implement University and College Union congress decisions whether I agree with them or not ("Boycott backer aimed only to stir debate", June 22), and I will...
Tom Hickey is right that it is my job to implement University and College Union congress decisions whether I agree with them or not ("Boycott backer aimed only to stir debate", June 22), and I will...
I can well understand Tom Hickey's need to backtrack and fudge around his shameful motion, but neither he nor the congress representatives who voted for it can revise history. One would be using very...
Had Frances Raday and the Israeli Association for Feminist and Gender Studies wanted to show "solidarity" with the Institute of Women's Studies and the "suffering" Palestinian women to whom they...
Your report about the dangers of the "Google grab-bag" ("Web threatens learning ethos", June 22) leads me to think that we need an academic Google equivalent with an academic bias in its searches. If...
I'm afraid you erred in subtitling William Hogarth's Beer Street (1751) "Dirt, din and drunken revellers" ("The past is another (smellier) country", Books, June 15). For the chauvinistic Hogarth,...
A Knight Bachelor should not be confused with a KBE ("Fright for knight as good news lost in post", June 22). The former is abbreviated as Kt not KBE, while the latter is a Knight Commander of the...
As an elected member of the Higher Education Academy council and previously the council of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, I too was in the minority that voted against the...
Yes, there may be problems with the indicators suggested by the Performance Indicators Review Group ("Performance indicators reprieved", June 22). Measures of research activity, widening...
So Simon was Sir Alan Sugar's favourite in The Apprentice . Clearly, the glass ceiling remains firmly intact, and as for the new legislation on ageism... Still, I am grateful for such rich material...
John T. Jost's article "Ideology is back and the divides are still deep" (Opinion, June 15) gives the dispiriting impression that we are somehow predestined to be of the political Left or Right. It...
I was somewhat bemused by the apparent discrepancy between the article "UK's foreign legion continues to expand" (June 15), the editorial "Cosmopolitan campuses" and "Nul points for our global tune...
On the eve of a conference on identities, we take a look at the evolving cuisine of British Asians, the rise of Scouse and handwriting analysis Panikos Panayi examines the changing food patterns...
On the eve of a conference on identities, we take a look at the evolving cuisine of British Asians, the rise of Scouse and handwriting analysis Pete Atkinson charts the rise of the famous sound of...
On the eve of a conference on identities, we take a look at the evolving cuisine of British Asians, the rise of Scouse and handwriting analysis Jane Caplan explores the history of script in Europe at...
Richard Rose was one of a select group of academics invited to the Oval Office to share their thoughts on the 'challenges in Iraq'. Here's what happened The call to the White House came out of the...