First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is a genial tale of a German tour by an idle fellow: "'What we want,' said Harris, 'is a change.'"...
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Laurie Taylor column
SENIOR DON RIGGED RESULTS - SHOCK CHARGE Media studies academics across the country are reeling from the news that one of their senior colleagues, Dr Piercemuller of Poppleton University, has been...
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Letter: Chewing over Gum(1)
Fay Weldon's tilt at political philosophy does not amount to a hill of beans ("Towards a grand universal morality", Millennium Magazine , THES, December 22/29). Our godless age has, she argues, so...
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Letter: Chewing over Gum(2)
Congratulations on that spoof first-year essay by Fay Weldon. J. C. O'Neill Edinburgh
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Letter: Our very own RAE of sunshine
It never ceases to amaze me that academics continue to attack the research assessment exercise ("Poisonous exercises", THES, December 22/29). For those who enter the profession because research is...
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Letter: BAT funding at Notts(1)
Reactions to the decision of the university to accept British American Tobacco funding for its business school have ranged from moral condemnation to an acceptance of economic pragmatism in relation...
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Letter: BAT funding at Notts(2)
You really know how to spoil a guy's Christmas. I bet Sir Colin Campbell has already been on to his lawyers about the "correction" (Letters, THES, December 22/29) affirming that the word "clever" is...
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Letter: Tests and terrorists(1)
Your article on legislation to limit terrorist activities by extreme animal rights groups ("Law fails to assure animal researchers", THES, December 15) will be welcomed by scientists who live in fear...
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Letter: Tests and terrorists(2)
It is because of their failure to persuade the public of their cause that the animal rights extremists have resorted to campaigns of violence and intimidation. It is unacceptable that medical...
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Letter: Herts course cutting
At the University of Hertfordshire, in social sciences, one of four areas closing ("Hertfordshire faces legal action over course closures", THES,December 15), three staff left last summer and six are...
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Letter: Not in Kansas
John Radford's responses to the criticism of his earlier letter (Letters, THES, December 15) simply reiterate that males happen to do better on the most commonly used tests of mathematics than...
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Letter: Unqualified success
Matthew Chapman is concerned degree mills are harming the reputation of UK higher education ("I'd like one doner kebab and a PhD to take away", THES, December 15). Surely more important are the...
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Leader: Bit more than nothing offered for something
The funding council insists that the new money it plans to put into pay must be on a "something for something" basis, and that this means performance related pay - with the establishment of...
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Leader: Still no room on the election manifestoes
Education, though not higher education, looks set to top the political agenda in Britain in 2001. The year will almost certainly bring a general election in which schools rather than colleges will be...
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Multi-dimensional man
John Barrow believes the public needs to know more about science - which is why he's published ten books on the subject and in March will deliver one of this year's Darwin College lectures....