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Universities to get guidance on tackling extremism Britain faces a serious threat from Muslim extremists trying to recruit university students to terrorism, the Higher Education Minister, Bill...
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Times Higher Awards 2007 - The Evening in Pictures
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Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive. Subject : Times Higher Awards. A small number of short-term non-renewable contract colleagues have expressed concern about Poppleton University's...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
My university's emblem is an elephant. Before taxidermy transformed him, the original Jumbo was London Zoo's biggest ever pachyderm. P. T. Barnum, the unrivalled showman, bought him for £10,000 in a...
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Leader: UK excellence deserves reward
Higher education systems all over the developed world are under pressure from politicians. This week alone, we report John Howard, ߣߣÊÓƵ's Prime Minister, urging more young people to become...
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Leader: Studies in confusion
One study adjusts teaching quality scores for "bias" towards old universities, another warns against the unfairness of comparing small universities with big ones in the National Student Survey. Pity...
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The spectre of racism remains
As a former student of the department of Russian and Slavonic studies at Leeds University, I witnessed the unfolding of the Frank Ellis affair from close quarters and, at times, with no little...
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Mad about Manchester 1
In response to comments from the parent of a Manchester University student studying English (Letters, November 9), my son is in the second year of a chemistry degree at Manchester. He has 20 hours of...
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Mad about Manchester
If I were a student again, I'd be protesting about the paucity of lectures. Quite rightly, our students want value for money and they're not getting it. When I was at Cambridge University in the...
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Unique Melbourne
To suggest that the University of Melbourne follows the Bologna model ("Monash to focus overseas", October ) is to misunderstand developments here. Our Melbourne model, which includes a suite of high...
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Reasonable requests
We at the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection were disappointed to be so terribly misrepresented in your article "Primate research 'hit list' sparks fear of attacks" (November 9). It is...
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Unchain yourselves
It is sad that it takes two officially retired but active academics, Ian McNair and Jennifer Bone, to say in public what is known to all in academia - higher education is "selling its soul" ("...
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No scalps were taken
Your otherwise accurate and generous account of the collaboration between Harvard and Manchester universities (and of my role therein) was seriously flawed by a breezy introduction written to grab...
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Temporal concerns
The caption under the picture of St Augustine printed with Sir Patrick Moore's review of Paul Davies's The Goldilocks Enigma (Books, November 2) states the opposite of Augustine's thought, and indeed...
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An old mistake at OU
The Open University seem to be under a serious misapprehension over the new age discrimination regulations ("OU staff criticise 'unfair' age rules", November 9). Times Higher readers should be clear...