Hear the real voices
Ruth Scurr (Opinion, September 1) should acknowledge that the historical novel frequently masquerades as a form of "history by association", implicitly aligning itself to historical fact in a...
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Clearing rocks
The news that clearing is in "chaos" will come as a surprise to the 356,000 students who so far have had their places confirmed through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service ("Ucas glitch...
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Time to get knotted
It is unfortunate that Leonard Susskind's vitriolic and intemperate attack on two critics of string theory ("Hold fire! This epic vessel has only just set sail...", August 25) should have appeared in...
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Ethical scrutiny
Your report of the restrictions on covert social science research ("Ethics guards are 'stifling' creativity", August 25) may fuel an overreaction to the concern for improving ethical scrutiny. I too...
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Blair's poor legacy 1
Vernon Bogdanor surely performs a sleight of hand by conflating the actions of the 1997 Labour Government with the role of Tony Blair ("Labour's great hero who nearly was", September 1). The...
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Blair's poor legacy 2
Vernon Bogdanor's expressions "constitutional reform" and "radical programme of constitutional change" are too polite. Abuse of the UK Constitution is surely a more apt description? We still have the...
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Satisfied customers
In reporting this year's National Student Survey you made great play of the fact that results for a number of larger institutions could not be published as not enough of their students had responded...
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Stronghold of academic rule besieged by federal camps
Academic self-governance is on the wane across the UK, Michael North reports. But Bernard Crick says that fears for democracy at Oxford are unjustified Oxford and Cambridge universities are unique...
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On tap but not on top
Academic self-governance is on the wane across the UK, Michael North reports. But Bernard Crick says that fears for democracy at Oxford are unjustified On air recently, arguing with a tabloid leader-...
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Stand up and be banished
Phil Baty meets a whistleblower who, after 150 job rejections, is starting to believe that he has been sent into the academic wilderness Harinda Bahra has been rejected for more than 150 jobs in...
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'We knew nothing about this'
Were ordinary Germans aware of the Holocaust? Huw Richards asks the author of a study on the question Rarely has the saying "the devil is in the detail" been more applicable than in the phrase davon...
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The man with two great loves
Bhikhu Parekh is passionate about the vita activa and the vita contemplativa, despite his wife's warning In the past few years I have spent the summer in India and devoted it to academic writing. The...
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Bhangra? That's so yesterday
Research on youth studies is doomed to be outdated by the time it is published, admits Rupa Huq, whose own contribution looks at Asian dance music but has nothing about the Crazy Frog Oscar Wilde...
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You might not believe it, but that gown is so rock'n'roll
It’s hush-hush, but universities boast several rock legends, Lee Elliot Major findsAcademe has always had an uneasy relationship with pop stars.“We don’t need no education,” proclaimed Pink Floyd in...
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Today's news
No end in sight to university money worries, warns report Universities are predicted to have about £1.5 billion more in their coffers over the next decade, although the extra money will do little to...