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Taking a linear run with Henri
Skateboarding, Space and the City
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Portraits from a poison pen
Eve Arnold
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New page in old story
The Book History Reader
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Laurie Taylor column
"We... the tutors, are not the possessors of a static body of knowledge that we can pass on, but participants in a many-sided conversation" - THES , October 25. Could we all squeeze up a little more...
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Leader: Don't let the OECD's plaudits go to our head
This year's Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development survey of education in the industrialised world has depicted UK universities as a global model of good practice. Underpinned by a...
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Leader: Frustrated sector could profit from Clarke's clout
Never has a new education secretary been given so much advice and been so unlikely to take notice of it. Although he has made a career out of being his own man, politicians, pundits and education...
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The return of big brother
Many people believe that Russia's security service is trying to intimidate academics and stifle open debate. Nick Holdsworth reports. Russian scientists, academics and environmentalists are feeling...
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Check emails, fix up meeting with councillors, buy Kit Kat
Just what do vice-chancellors do all day? Harriet Swain joins Michael Brown of Liverpool John Moores University to find out, in the first in a series on the working lives of people in higher...
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Wanted: chief whose blood is hot and cold
In the modern university, size matters. And as campuses continue to get bigger, so too do the responsibilities of the v-c. Harriet Swain reports. The surprise proposal of marriage between University...
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Silence in seminary signals a few holy disorders
With the dramatic fall in the number of men seeking ordination, Terry Philpot asks whether the Catholic Church should review its approach to training. One of the student corridors in the Venerable...
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It is no longer wise to go strictly by The Book
The appointment of respected scholar Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury has not pleased fundamentalists in his flock. But, argues Keith Ward, a free-thinking theologian is a godsend for the...
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Celebrity snares
Do universities risk becoming caught up in society's growing obsession with personality as they strive to appeal to a greater number of potential students? Caroline Davis reports. Oxford historian...
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No advocate of 'terrorist torture'
No word other than dishonest can be used to describe Brendan O'Leary's mendacious characterisation of my book Why Terrorism Works (Books, THES , October 4). Read this paragraph: "There follows a...
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Get real, Sir Richard 1
Weary of the top-up debate, Sir Richard Sykes (Why I, THES , October 25) has stepped out to convert Imperial College, London, from a prestigious research institution into a privileged independent...