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Let me take you by the mind
Cities of the Imagination Series
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel narrated by a Cambridge scholar: "In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The office of the vice-chancellor Subject: Degree convocations It has been brought to my attention that several of last year's 48 degree ceremonies finished after the scheduled time and thereby...
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Leader: Whitehall gets a pat on back and a slap in the face
Ministers have long seen this week's select committee report as the first big hurdle in the implementation of their higher education plans. Academe was never going to like the separation of teaching...
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Leader: History shows schools cast a long shadow
The first of our new series of subject focuses, on history, tells a story that is likely to be repeated in many other areas. As high-prestige universities expand provision, former polytechnics...
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Yo! Get ur bard on!
Henry Biggs was a 'nerdy' classics lecturer until a discussion of Homer inspired him to start rapping. Stephen Phillips does a sound check Chuck Berry is the normal bill of fare at Blueberry Hill....
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A burning passion that's close to worship
Edward Woodward was not the only one to get fired up by The Wicker Man. Olga Wojtas joins the academic debate about the cult horror movie. Britt Ekland writhing naked in the cult horror movie The...
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The gunboat diplomat who struck a minefield
Lord Palmerston's foreign policy led to British mastery of the seas but also the burden of imperialism. So is he an appropriate hero for George W. Bush? asks Miles Taylor. When thousands of anti-war...
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The campus acolytes of mother earth
The Wicker Man 's depiction of Summerisle pagans as sexually promiscuous, human-sacrificing, sinister hokey-cokey dancers is, not surprisingly, very much at odds with the campus activities of today's...
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A real sense of sensibilities
It wasn't enough for Sandy Lerner to experience Jane Austen's world through books, so she used £10 million of her own cash to recreate it for scholars and the public to visit. Anne Sebba reports. The...
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Value overseas
Language students who miss out on a year abroad ("Fees threat to languages", THES, July 4) are damaging their job prospects. A recent study of more than 1,100 language graduates showed that the...
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No to teaching ghetto 1
When I mentioned the white paper's denial of the link between research and teaching to a US colleague, he said: "Look at the National Science Foundation review criteria." There are two criteria for...
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No to teaching ghetto 2
With depressing regularity, government ministers and higher education pundits chant, "We cannot have world-class research in all of our universities." This is dispiriting to many fine scholars, it is...
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Fruits of research should be free
The news that researchers now have access to free online publication through BiomedCentral ("Jisc wins free journal access with BiomedCentral", THES, June ) might - if we are lucky - herald a radical...