Wild reasoning
Nancy Rothwell can justify vivisection only by raising irrelevant issues (Columnist, September 17). She says donations to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals normally exceed...
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A final say
After 31 years' service at what is now London Metropolitan University, I am leaving to join another university. I am proud to have been part of an institution that has played a leading role in...
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Not-so-choice cuts
Fears that students from Northern Ireland will be forced to study outside the province are well founded ("Students demand rise in NI enrolment", September 3). This tendency is likely to worsen if...
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Lost stats
Laurie Taylor missed the following statistics in his column (September 17): 57 per cent of students have a part-time job to make ends meet (as do 9 per cent of lecturers); 23 per cent of students...
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E in Exeter
About 500 of us at the Association for Learning Technology conference last week attended the ceremony for the Higher Education Academy (ALT)/ Times Higher sponsored E-Tutor of the Year Award (News,...
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Out for the count
Five per cent of academics aged between 35 and 40 "don't know" whether they are actively pursuing a career outside academe ( Times Higher survey, September 17). Should someone in authority be...
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Frank about Frank
As if there aren't enough Grumpy Old Men writing for The Times Higher , no sooner do I renew my subscription than you announce Frank Furedi is to be a regular feature. True to the form of his...
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Positive vision
I have a great deal of sympathy and empathy with the difficulties described in the Soapbox on contract researchers (August 6). I was on fixed-term research contracts for the first eight years of my...
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Assessing the facts
As a member of the Department for Education and Skills working group on disabled students allowances (DSAs) and specific learning difficulties, I would like to point out several errors in the Soapbox...
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What makes a successful democratic government?
As the Labour Party prepares for its annual conference Vernon Bogdanor asks what the ingredients are for good leadership. It is easy for government to be successful. Mussolini, so it is said, made...
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Ideologue, principled statesman or mindless fanatic? The choice is yours
As the Labour Party prepares for its annual conference Huw Richards asks what the ingredients are for good leadership. "The problem of just what was meant by 'a good government' lay at the very heart...
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No longer up to their arses in alligators...
What do dons do at 65? Scuba diving and zipping around in a Jag, for starters. Chris Bunting tries to keep up. Jim Godfrey and his wife, Marlene, are living the good life. It is not an extravagant...
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Are you a 7ft left-hander called Zolp? It could be your ticket to college
In America, you don't have to be a straight-A student to win a scholarship. Stephen Phillips surveys some of the more offbeat awards. Chicago's Loyola University has an unusual quandary. The 13,000-...
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Seeker of truths digging for justice
Providing evidence of atrocities drives Margaret Cox to excavate mass graves despite being very squeamish, says Jennifer Wallace. Ten years ago, an archaeological team was sent to a Central American...
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'Duped' v-cs plot RAE revolt
An unprecedented alliance of university heads is gearing up for a fresh revolt against the 2008 research assessment exercise. Vice-chancellors believe they were duped into agreeing to the plans for...