Head over heels 1
You show two versions of Andrea Mantegna's The Dead Christ ("Brush-off for Hockney idea", THES , August 23). Christopher Tyler's has the head at a distance beyond the feet in contrast to Mantegna's...
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Head over heels 2
The closure of fine art at Lincoln University's Hull campus and at Hull University ("Art students flounder after school axes places", THES , August 23) leaves local students bereft of a degree course...
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Question of support
Peter Lumsden's response to the requirement on universities to make reasonable adjustments under the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Act 2001 (Soapbox, THES , August 30) is disappointing....
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Down to witty gritty
Andrew Mueller says that Culture in ߣߣÊÓƵ (Books, THES , August 23) lacks wit, style and is a missed opportunity for the inquisitive essayist. Quite so. The book, which I co-edited, is a...
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Full Bethlehem story
The rocket hole in the library of Bethlehem University that you refer to in your feature on the boycott of Israel ( THES , July 26) was probably caused during a skirmish between Palestinian gunmen...
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Brown's bright idea is a bargain 1
John Mace's negative comments on chancellor Gordon Brown's financial support for students from poorer backgrounds are based on a superficial analysis ("Education, education, too much education?",...
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Brown's bright idea is a bargain 2
John Mace questions whether subsidising students from poorer backgrounds beyond 16 is good value for money. I have been part of two research studies with colleagues at the University of York. One...
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Brown's bright idea is a bargain 3
William Keenan (Letters, THES , August 23) has got the wrong end of the stick. There is no contradiction between falling academic standards and the existence of talented students with high...
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Cooke plan irrelevant
The Cooke committee's message that by 2010 new teachers should have a teaching qualification is irrelevant. ("Teaching 'licence' for all new lecturers by 2010", THES , August 23). Many institutions...
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Oxford equity adds up
Harold Perkin says that Oxbridge dons are "admissions amateurs" who used to sneak preferential treatment to the children of alumni ("Selection correction", THES , August 23). He contrasts this with...
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Where's wow factor?
We are surprised that a routine announcement by Luton University about vice-chancellor Dai John's retirement next year at the end of his five-year contract on his 60th birthday should arouse such...
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Take account of trade
If Christian Twigg-Flesner checks the law reports (Letters, THES , August 23), he will find that in the early 1980s an Iranian student successfully pursued a polytechnic that had advertised a "state-...
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Update: 12:45
London Institute gets research degree-awarding powers The London Institute has been granted research degree-awarding powers by the Privy Council. Previously, the five art and design colleges...
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Today's news
Stem cells grown for first time Researchers at King’s College London claimed last night to have made stem cells from human embryos in the laboratory, the first group of scientists in the country to...
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Today's news
Suicide warning after Cambridge student’s death Roche, the company that makes the malaria drug Larium, has added the risk of suicide to warnings to travellers prescribed the pills. Cambridge...