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Branding has become a buzzword for universities, but many academics remain sceptical at best. So we asked Robert Mighall, a former Oxford English fellow who is now a branding consultant, to do email...
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The rise and rise of porn chic
As pornography creeps into the mainstream and sleaze style becomes the vogue, how should feminists react, asks Angela McRobbie How should feminists respond to the pervasive, ironic normalisation of "...
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The public pay, so give them their say
The future of British science may rest on our ability to engage the population in an informed discussion about what research is done and how it is used, argues Lord Winston Two weeks ago in this...
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Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas
Authors make their research available to publishers for nothing only to have it offered back to them at a price. Geoff Watts reports on efforts to change this Item: preparing this article, I log on...
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The lengths they'll go to for an Olympic gold
The key to Britain's recent success in international swimming lies in the appliance of science. Ben Carlish reports The waters of the Dublin swimming pool have barely settled after the Great Britain...
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Buy our brand new world?
Branding has become a buzzword for universities, but many academics remain sceptical at best. So we asked Robert Mighall, a former Oxford English fellow who is now a branding consultant, to do email...
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The rise and rise of porn chic
As pornography creeps into the mainstream and sleaze style becomes the vogue, how should feminists react, asks Angela McRobbie How should feminists respond to the pervasive, ironic normalisation of "...
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The public pay, so give them their say
The future of British science may rest on our ability to engage the population in an informed discussion about what research is done and how it is used, argues Lord Winston Two weeks ago in this...
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Funding madness
I read with incredulity the caption accompanying the photo of Wendy Miller and her children ("Rebel MPs steadfast against variable fees", THES , December 19/26). Miller will, along with 36 other...
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UK must compete
Alan Ryan claims (Opinion, THES , December 19/26) that "it is not economically essential to compete with the US at a blue-skies level [since] Japan's growth rate was a compound 7 per cent per annum...
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Talking turkey
Your photo caption says that our "Christmas turkey could be descended from a prehistoric creature" ("A dinosaur for dinner?", THES , December 19/26). Surely every species is? Charlie Owen University...
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Teaching-led colleges hit back 1
The government's message that teaching is an appropriate raison d'etre for the university title depends crucially on the removal of the research degree-awarding powers requirement ("Legal fear over...
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Teaching-led colleges hit back 2
UUK and others, most notably the Association of University Teachers, continue to use the phrase "teaching only" to describe institutions set to benefit from the government's enlightened policy on the...
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Without honours 1
Perhaps Colin Blakemore should take on board the lesson to be gleaned from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy - that those who expect honours don't deserve them ("Prince stands accused in honours...
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Without honours 2
When an academic with such a distinguished career as Colin Blakemore complains that he ought to have been given a knighthood, it serves only to deepen the suspicions of many who are sceptical of the...