Letter: Only connect 4
Breaking a student's engagement with a subject into defined tasks can turn it into a process of jumping through hoops. Connections are not perceived, the synthesis that leads to understanding does...
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Letter: Building for the future
While the collapse of a ceiling at King's College London law school lends itself to a cartoon (Diary, THES , November 23), the underlying funding issues are no laughing matter. Higher education...
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Letter: Of mice and men
Adrian Mourby tells us ("Never trust a talking mouse", THES , November 30) that Walt Disney's children's stories point to shortcomings in Americans. They are, he says, subject to a "national naivete...
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Letter: Happiness is...
Martin Stanton's prescription for universities to become "happy places" contrasts with Tim Reuter's diagnosis of stress there (Soapbox and Letters, THES , November 30). Stanton advocates buying in...
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Leader: Guidelines must cover research practices too
The Wellcome Trust is spending about £3 billion on research in its current five-year plan, most of it through universities. So its wish for the researchers it funds to adopt national criteria for...
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Leader: Enthusiasm for future can help Europe flourish
On the eve of the Nobel prizes' 100th birthday, a conference convened by Europaeum, a club of seven universities in Oxford, Leiden, Bonn, Bologna, Geneva, Paris and Prague, met at Humboldt University...
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A left too lazy to look the 'Other' way
When faced with the intricacies of Islam, the British left lacks the theoretical framework for meaningful discourse, argues Stephen Chan. The recent "exchange" of views in the London Review of Books...
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Noble convictions that founded the Nobels
The Nobel prizes are the world's most widely recognised and most coveted rewards for intellectual endeavour. Michael de Laine surveys how the awards have grown in stature since Alfred Nobel...
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Repeat performances, canny operators and unrecognised genius
A rare group with several singular prizes Only a handful of people have won a Nobel prize more than once. The first to do so was Marie Curie, who was awarded the physics prize with her husband,...
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What does it take to be a consistent winner?
For a Nobel, it may not be enough to be clever. Harriet Swain looks at patterns in the prize. What does it take to win a Nobel prize? First, it helps to be American. The United States took at least a...
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From today's UK papers
Cambridge figures refute bias Claims by heads of leading independent schools that their pupils are being discriminated against when they apply to Cambridge were refuted by statistics published by the...
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Campaign to stop monkey business Animal welfare campaigners today called for an urgent clampdown on the import of primates. The RSPCA said the move was necessary to end the suffering endured by more...
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MoD steps up war against terror Britain must be prepared to take the war against terrorism to countries that "support, nurture, protect and direct" terrorist organisations, defence secretary Geoff...
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From today's UK papers
Museum rising star ditches gadgetry The rising star of the museum world is turning his back on interactive displays and the creeping Millennium Dome culture of "blooming knobs and buttons". Simon...
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Neighbourhood renewal cash unveiled A £21.8 million programme to help people transform deprived neighbourhoods was unveiled by the the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions today...