Just a black-and-white issue? 3
As a black member of staff at Leeds University, I find it heartening that the majority of students and academics seem to hold the view that responsible race relations and acade-mic freedom "are not...
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Just a black-and-white issue? 4
Your report on a possible "reinvestigation" of Geoffrey Sampson's views on race and IQ seems not to take on board the consequences of his view that Asians are, on average, more intelligent than...
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Arts bias is costly
Last month, The Times Higher suggested that I somehow disagreed with Boris Johnson's view that if students "can benefit from (a degree) they should be given every opportunity to do so" ("Boris gets...
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Animal tests vital
Phillip Duckworth has an interesting - if mistaken - take on the tragic events at a research unit at Northwick Park Hospital (Letters, March 31). That this is the first time such an adverse reaction...
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Let the dinosaur die
It was interesting to see the table of winners if quality-related research (QR) funding was distributed according to 2003-04 external research income parameters ("What will be yardstick for success...
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A prize purchase
A colleague who required his students to purchase a copy of his (excellent) textbook found an inspired way to solve the conflict of interest problem highlighted in the story "Now apply in writing to...
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Careless cuts
There is a crucial difference between the redundancies planned at Northumbria University and those at London South Bank University ("Natfhe poised to take action", March 31). The 20 academic job cuts...
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No chance for peace
In her review of The Ethics of War (March 31), Margaret Anstee states that "in real life even these (moral criteria) are usually hard to evaluate". The invasion of Iraq provides a case where the...
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Critical words
In his review of two texts on reading research (Books, March 24), Charles Hulme says phonemes are "the individual speech sound units in words" and that the alphabetic principle is "that the letters...
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Hang together
The intellectual and ethical poverty of the academic boss class expressed in Jeremy Valentine's letter (March 31) is exactly what dumb insolence (an active form of sabotage) must fight, but they can...
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Who's pulling your strings?
When universities get into bed with industry, can academic independence be guaranteed, asks Michael North Reports last week that failing further education colleges could be taken over by private...
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Rich and popular American cousin is not without flaws
Oxbridge could learn a thing or two from Harvard... and vice versa, says Harry Lewis The colonists of New England were a well-educated lot. More than a hundred who arrived before 1640 had Oxford or...
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Digging up a cash crop of fertile minds in dusty fields
Amrit Dhillon explains why India - both urban and rural - is such a popular recruiting ground for UK universities With the battle for international students - and their cash - becoming ever more...
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Can our evil be 'better' than theirs?
By classifying wrongdoing according to its utility, the West seeks to condone breaches of human rights. But the means can never be used to justify the end, argues Conor Gearty Until 1968,...