Let's get enlightened 1
In an instructive and illuminating review of Jonathan Israel's Enlightenment Contested (Books, February 16), Simon Blackburn concludes by regurgitating an example of the "invisible dogma" that...
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Let's get enlightened 2
Is there a chance, for once, of correcting and disabusing analytic philosophy of the canard that the Frankfurt School was hostile to the ideals of reason, freedom, democracy and so on, in Simon...
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Respect the PGCEs
I enjoyed Richard Austen-Baker's parody of Chris Woodhead (Letters, February 16), in which he employs Woodhead's gift for insult, ill-informed dogmatism and hysterical prejudice to dismiss PGCEs. But...
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QAA gives fine support
Regarding your report "QAA pans uneven postgrad support" (February 16) - far from "panning" "uneven postgrad support", in our recent reviews of postgraduate research programmes, the Quality Assurance...
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I swear I like taboos
Swearing, epithets and other linguistic taboos are a fascinating yet poorly understood aspect of language, and I have yet to meet a person who isn't intensely curious about the phenomenon. The topic...
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Cheat challenge
Sunny Bains's way forward in dealing with plagiarism cases offers a new slant on handling such offences (Opinion, February 16). However, I find it a trifle naive that an academic department should...
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LSE does not brag
None of the academic staff at the department of government at the LondonSchool of Economics would seriously claim that we are "the best in the UK, no question" (Peep's Diary, February 16). Nor have I...
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Does your boss need a spell in prison?
If you have ever thought your vice-chancellor could benefit from a stint behind bars, it just could be about to happen. In a development programme launched by the Leadership Foundation for Higher...
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'My job is to explain the findings and how they'll influence people's lives'
Dorothy Crawford aims to use her new role at Edinburgh to raise public understanding of key medical discoveries Edinburgh University, which has one of the UK's oldest medical schools, has hundreds of...