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Laurie Taylor column
From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Dear Professor Lapping As you will no doubt have read in The THES, and indeed in the more popular press, it is the government's intention...
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Alan Ryan
Universities UK needs to grow a backbone and stand up to Charles Clarke over higher education funding. Anyone seriously concerned about the underfunded and run-down state of English higher education...
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Leader: Any reform must be clearly better
The review of university admissions, published this week by Steven Schwartz's task force, sensibly sticks to principles rather than becoming bogged down in the practicality of reforms. But even that...
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Leader: Collegiate conundrum
The cloistered world of the Oxbridge college has always been one where disagreements can fester and grow into something more serious. From Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers to Colin Dexter's tales...
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Can anyone tell the whole truth and nothing but?
Lord Hutton is charged with untangling the Kelly affair. Is such a search for absolute veracity an impossible task, or is the truth out there? asks Sean Coughlan. When the Hutton inquiry into the...
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Politicians' words and work are out of kilter
Pessimism results from rhetoric's failure to meet reality. Trevor Smith calls for more authentic discourse. More than 40 years ago, William Kornhauser presciently forecast the shape of things to come...
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The marketing Midas with a golden boot
'Goldenballs' may be losing his lustre in the West, but in the East they bow down before David Beckham. Ellis Cashmore tells how myth and market combined in a fairytale with a happy and lucrative...
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Universal joint, lens grinder, balance-spring mechanism, St Paul's...
Iyes, but what else did Robert Hooke ever do for us? Lisa Jardine recalls a forgotten genius. Robert Hooke was a brilliant man in a brilliant European generation. It was Hooke who, in a letter to...
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Personal missions and public achievements
The change that marks the start of a new academic year is reflected at the highest level as some big-name vice-chancellors bow out and new faces appear. Both those moving out and those moving up will...
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'This university has to be led by academics'
Malcolm Grant University College London The walls of the cavernous rooms of the provost of University College London have been re-papered but otherwise remain bare. Malcolm Grant, the new incumbent,...
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Sport science is unfair game
Michael Rennie, like Richard Caborn, argues that sport and exercise science fails to use research to benefit the public (Letters, THES, September 12; Subject special, THES, September 5). Both claim...
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Midlife crisis
Despite Simon Inger's despair (Letters, THES, September 19), the real postdoc blues are those who achieve a doctorate in midlife and are discriminated against because of their age. I was an 11-plus...
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Reasonable doubts
When accusations are flying around that environmental scientists or environmentalists "sex up" their findings ("No grey areas in a green's world", THES, September 19), the issue of trust comes to the...