Letter: Back off, Baroness
May I object to Mary Warnock's statement: "Seeking to avoid a tendency to obesity, to alcoholism, to aggression or to homosexuality may seem little less acceptable than seeking to avoid disease". ("A...
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Letter: Personality split
Jane Ayres is sceptical that compulsory teaching qualifications for further education tutors will raise standards ("The power of personality", THES , September 21). While I agree that some inherent...
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Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (1)
Frank Furedi paints too rosy a picture of the United States and too bleak a picture of the United Kingdom. He also overlooks a distinctive British opportunity for cultivating public intellectuals ("...
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Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (2)
The most deplorable aspect of the marginalisation of the intellectual in Britain is the collusion of universities. Universities have embraced the managerial ethos and it is stifling autonomy and...
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Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (3)
Frank Furedi raises a number of salient issues concerning the state of the British university, in particular the decline of public intellectuals and the rise of the narrowly focused academic "expert...
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Letter: Number cruncher (1)
Colleagues may have greeted the news that the Arts and Humanities Research Board had spent £89.99 million on museums and galleries in 1999-2000 with disbelieving delight ("For the record", THES ,...
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Letter: Number cruncher (2)
A fortnight ago, The THES trumpeted that the AHRB is giving £89.99 million to museums and galleries. Last week, the figure has been cut by 99.999990011 per cent to £8.99. Must be the recession. Andy...
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Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (4)
My rationale for working at a university and studying for a PhD was not to "escape the real world" but to allow me to understand it better and (hopefully) share that understanding with others. Frank...
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Leader: Cold winds affect efforts to reform student support
Recession can be good for education, making studying and teaching seem relatively attractive as the cold wind blows. The last recession drove substantial expansion in further and higher education,...
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Leader: NHS university seems a hasty prescription
The government's idea for a University of the National Health Service is broadly a good one. It was promised in Labour's election campaign and looks set to happen. But details so far imply that, as...
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Flawed God, wash away all your sins
Jack Miles tells Anthony Freeman how his take on the Bible casts God as a sinner who overcame a late-life crisis only by repenting in the form of Jesus. The Bible should carry a warning: it can...
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Old lessons for modern warriors
How do you organise 603 groups - each with its own agenda, political orientation and organising style - into a coherent force that can blockade the centre of a major city, halt an international...
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Free thinkers working to create a free society
Anarchistic ideas date back to the ancient world: dissident writers from ancient Greece, Rome, China and India condemned authority and demanded a form of anarchy - a society without a ruler. Their...
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Marx moves over to make room for new lot of rebels
The fall of the house of Marx and the end of the cold war have led to a decline in labour history that has affected social history in general because, as Patrick Joyce writes: "The basic repertoire...
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