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UK vice-chancellors are learning what their US counterparts have always known - if you can't raise the cash, you're out The child's unanswerable question "Mummy, what is that man for?" strikes a...
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Leader: Schools pick up where postcodes fell down
There will be few tears shed for the demise of the postcode premium, much less for the often misleading distinction between state and independent school entrants to higher education that provides the...
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Leader: Is the era of the 'multiversity' finally upon us?
Research published this week claims that neither the 1992 reform that turned the polytechnics into universities, nor the Dearing report five years later, really changed the face of English higher...
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Why gay Hitler was a turn-off
As historians gather to debate history and the media, Huw Richards looks at TV history and Peter Hennessey considers the press's recording of events History was not always like this. As television...
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Forgot to mention he's the son of God
As historians gather to debate history and the media, Huw Richards looks at TV history and Peter Hennessey considers the press's recording of events. If the Sermon on the Mount had been a government...
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Don't misunderestimate me in the political studies field
Huw Richards hears Dubya is nobody's fool and reports on a growing interest. "George W. Bush is represented here as a bumbling idiot. He has bumbled, but he is no idiot." By "here" John Owens of the...
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Politics buoyed by student vote
If young people really are uninterested in politics, they have a funny way of showing it. The latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show applications to read politics...
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Reaching parts other histories can't reach
A 450-year chronicle-in-progress of the British parliamentary system gives a unique insight into every MP's life. Huw Richards reports There were reports of "violent doings at Bridgnorth, both...
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Can UK make a great leap in knowledge?
Claire Sanders looks at why Chinese studies is struggling in the UK when China is booming. Oxford University's appointment of Cornell professor Vivienne Shue as its first professor of contemporary...
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An army of managers in need of training
Paul FitzPatrick reports from Asia on a hunger for MBAs. When people talk about "unleashing creativity" or "becoming emotionally literate", the People's Liberation Army may not spring to mind. But...
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Plagiarism is just a mouseclick away
Students are using text messaging to cheat in exams and copying from the internet for coursework. Chris Bunting reports on how institutions are dealing with the issue. A student in a final...
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Fulfilled but poor
So nearly a quarter of postgraduates feel that a PhD in the arts and humanities has failed to fulfil their career aspirations (News, THES , December 6)? Is the bottle half full or half empty? More...
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Murray was first
Alison Richard will not be Cambridge's first female vice-chancellor ("Steely veteran with a cold eye on the bottom line", THES , December 6). Dame Rosemary Murray holds that distinction (1975-77)....
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On the right track for inclusion 1
I read half the report on sports minister Richard Caborn's criticism of elitism in sports science ("Coaches slated for failing the team", THES , November 29) as I walked to lecture sports-science...
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On the right track for inclusion 2
Sports scientists' defensiveness about their intellectual credentials is clear from your accusation that my department is undermining sport psychology's academic profile by introducing a joint...