Frustrated but honest
Your columnists can become very self-indulgent - witness Bob Brecher's rant last week (Working Knowledge, February 18). He asserts that "in all too many universities, honesty is becoming conspicuous...
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Bed is a better option 1
How depressing to find "experts" identifying procrastination's causes as "what goes on inside students' minds" ("On your mark, get set... hesitate", February 18,). Having talked to hundreds of...
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Bed is a better option 2
Your report on student cheating omits important issues ("Over half ignore cheating", February 18). In most institutions, the detection of plagiarism triggers a time-consuming procedure of reporting,...
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Learn from atrocities
David Cesarani writes eloquently of the significance of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz ("A nation tenderly traces the scars that never fade", February 11). Remembering Hitler's...
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RAE of hope
Maybe I missed it, but I cannot find any mention in The Times Higher or elsewhere that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has put back the final publication cut-off date for the 2008...
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Techno-truth
Recent research suggests how library staff should respond to the threat technology poses to their jobs ("Librarians under threat", and Letters, February 11). The Joint Information Systems Committee-...
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Fundamental flaws
Daniel Swift's review of Malise Ruthven's Fundamentalism implies, perhaps inadvertently, that Christian fundamentalism is homogeneous and that it leads to religious violence (Books, February 18). Yet...
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'Attack' on liberty
Last week, my colleague and friend Kenneth Good presented a paper, co-written with me, at the University of Botswana titled "Presidential Succession in Botswana: No model for Africa". It was a...
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'Psychocivilised' or a band of neurochemical slaves?
Forget crack - in the Decade of the Mind, legal 'smart drugs' are de rigueur. Steven Rose urges debate on the future of neuroscience We are halfway through what has, somewhat hubristically, been...
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Early careers spent grinding teeth, not cutting them
Young academics are struggling to get work published that can make their name in their field. Chris Bunting takes a look at why it is so hard
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At what point to weight the odds?
Women outnumber men on campus on both sides of the Atlantic. Is such an imbalance a threat to diversity and, if so, is affirmative action the answer? A lack of male students worries US institutions,...
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Too cool for school and it's downhill from there
Women outnumber men on campus on both sides of the Atlantic. Is such an imbalance a threat to diversity and, if so, is affirmative action the answer? UK academics do not lose sleep over a gender gap...
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Visions of life and death on the road to Canterbury
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Chaucer loved to play with concepts of dead images. Harriet Swain asks the experts about his fascination Viewed through...
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Instant expert
Domestic Encounters: 1400 to the Present. Royal College of Art, London. March 14 (£15, students £5) What's it about?: How the domestic interior has been "experienced, occupied and perceived" in the...
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Conference watch
From Darwin to Dawkins: The Science and Implications of Animal Sentience. The conference will look at how the science of animal sentience affects fields ranging from zoology and farming to veterinary...