Laurie Taylor column
"There has been a fantastic growth in creative writing courses" - The Times Higher , March 12 THE UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON BA in CREATIVE WRITING Ever quietly fancied yourself as a bit of a writer?...
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Laurie Taylor column
"There has been a fantastic growth in creative writing courses" - The Times Higher , March 12 THE UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON BA in CREATIVE WRITING Ever quietly fancied yourself as a bit of a writer?...
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Alan Ryan
As fine US institutions are tainted by sporting scandals, some wonder if money-spinning jocks are given too much free rein A sceptical colleague at Princeton University observed that we gave the name...
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Alan Ryan
As fine US institutions are tainted by sporting scandals, some wonder if money-spinning jocks are given too much free rein A sceptical colleague at Princeton University observed that we gave the name...
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Leader: Brown looks on the bright side
Beyond the euphoria induced by the chancellor's promises to boost research and preserve funding levels in higher education in addition to the anticipated fee income, universities now face a number of...
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Leader: Sykes' unhelpful jibe
Quangos need lively minds that are capable of challenging accepted wisdom if they are to improve the services they oversee. Higher education funding councils are no exception: the parlous state of...
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Leader: Brown looks on the bright side
Beyond the euphoria induced by the chancellor's promises to boost research and preserve funding levels in higher education in addition to the anticipated fee income, universities now face a number of...
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Leader: Sykes' unhelpful jibe
Quangos need lively minds that are capable of challenging accepted wisdom if they are to improve the services they oversee. Higher education funding councils are no exception: the parlous state of...
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Action that harms the innocent 1
The action of university teachers in boycotting everything to do with student assessment is morally contemptible. The AUT (aka the Association for Useless Tactics) has a long and inglorious history...
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Action that harms the innocent 2
In your leader (March 12), you state that "before long, exam papers will have to be set". This does not accurately reflect the urgency needed in settling the Association of University Teachers...
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Action that harms the innocent 3
Discuss: A 3.44 per cent increase backdated to August 2003 is added to lecturers' pay packets in June 2004. Calculate the actual value of the award in percentage terms to an individual currently at...
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Warring ideologies 1
On the issue of the Bush administration's deplorable politically motivated attitude towards stem-cell research, Elizabeth Blackburn, member of the President's Council on Bioethics until her recent...
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Warring ideologies 2
There's a certain irony in the fact that in the same week you publish an article lambasting the Bush administration for its ideological approach to science you also publish "Sleep easy with your baby...
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Misplaced bets 1
Stephen Unwin claims that God has a 67 per cent chance of existing (March 12). What makes me suspect that anybody presenting such an argument is 100 per cent likely to believe in God? Since there are...
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Misplaced bets 2
Using Unwin's original approach to statistics, I've calculated leprechauns at 20/1, the tooth fairy at 7/1, and a whopping 6/4 on for Father Christmas. Of course, a lot depends on what you accept as...