Get rid of those professional stabilisers
The ubiquitous university counselling services cast students as fragile creatures unable to cope with the normal pressures of life, and in doing so undermine the mental health of the people they aim...
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UK can't afford to rest on its laureates
The three British academics who won Nobels last week gained wide public acclaim, but will their institutions and UKscience in general benefit too? asks Anna Fazackerley. For much of last week, the...
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Lock up those 'peaceniks' in the ivory tower
David Newman reports on the rise of Israeli McCarthism. Israel is this year commemorating 30 years since the October 1973 Yom Kippur war. Each of the country's five universities has conferences on...
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The fear and self loathing in Las Vegas
Now even the Americans are anti-American, explains Bill Durodie. As shocking to Americans as the events of September 11 2001 was the worldwide wave of anti-American sentiment that followed. By...
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Get rid of those professional stabilisers
The ubiquitous university counselling services cast students as fragile creatures unable to cope with the normal pressures of life, and in doing so undermine the mental health of the people they aim...
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UK can't afford to rest on its laureates
The three British academics who won Nobels last week gained wide public acclaim, but will their institutions and UKscience in general benefit too? asks Anna Fazackerley. For much of last week, the...
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Still blind to western arrogance 1
Even if 9/11 was the catalyst that finally precipitated Terry Eagleton's return to earth from the realms of High Theory ("Bin Laden sure didn't read any beer mats", THES , October 3), he does not...
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Still blind to western arrogance 2
I was struck by Daniel Pipes' assertion that "Reformists reinterpret Islam to make it compatible with western ways. They have worked to transform the idea of jihad into a purely defensive undertaking...
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Progress in flexibility 1
As author of the Liberal Democrat proposals on higher education, I take issue with your leading article ("Sour notes lost in political noise", October 3). The Liberal Democrats are committed to...
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Progress in flexibility 2
Ian Gibson ("Read our lips: top-up fees simply won't work", THES , October 10) complained about the lack of discussion about top-up fees at the Labour Party conference. Yet his article digressed in...
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Frustrated ambition
I have a masters degree in Middle East Studies and am working towards a PhD in the area of Islamic studies. So when I saw the headline in your October 10 issue, "Employability: Middle East studies...
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Leave law alone
Nigel Bastin ("Why I think legal training has to change", THES , October 3) thinks that university law degrees should incorporate vocational training material to reduce the cost of legal education....
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Expose the real HEA
The Higher Education Funding Council for England consultation over the government's proposed Higher Education Academy was indeed a farce ("Hefce 'farce' makes sign-up to teaching academy compulsory...
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Fundamental flaw
So, there is "an unholy alliance between fundamentalists and atheists", according to Jeremy Caddick ("It's a matter of life, not sex", THES , October 10). What next, flying pigs? Thankfully, we...
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Taxing questions
Your leading article proclaims: "Research is a key ingredient of the new Europe now taking shape" ( THES , October 10). Presumably "new Europe" refers to an enlarged European Unions plus a...