Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Gavin Burnage Age: 40 Job: Computer-assisted language learning officer in the faculty of modern and medieval...
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Speak up, I'm doing some silent teaching
Lecturers, bite your tongue, relinquish control and get those students talking. It will do wonders for classroom dynamics, says Rosanna Breen Teachers are in that awkward position of having to strike...
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Anger at centre for animal welfare
A new government centre for research on alternatives to animal research is expected to anger anti-vivisection groups by underlining the need for some animal experiments to continue. The national...
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V-c halts league tables
Oxford University's next vice-chancellor has won a legal battle against his native New Zealand government to stop the publication of university league tables. John Hood, who will join Oxford this...
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The lengths some will go to...
The Measure of All Things
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the best-known work of a poet and critic: "An ambiguity, in ordinary speech, means something very...
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Grasp on life allowed man to dream
The Hand
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Jean-Paul and co. get lost in a J, U, N, G, L, E
Thinking it Through
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No sense in nonsense
Intellectual Impostures
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Cafe au lait avec la creme de siecle
Sartre - Camus and Sartre
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Surreal trip from Dada to Derrida
Modern French Philosophy
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Haunted soul hijacked by bigots
Friedrich Nietzsche - Nietzsche and the Fate of Art
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You have every right to get angry
The Quality of Freedom
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Inspirational reality check
Economics for an Imperfect World
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Church mice as profit centre
Enemies of Promise