Indicators fail to perform well
The article on performance indicators on widening participation demonstrates the limitations of quantitative measures ("Paisley puts the elite to shame", THES, October 6). Many Russell Group...
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Indicators fail to perform well
You conclude that "privilege is still the passport to university and top institutions are doing the least to redress the balance". You then concentrate on the failings of the majority of universities...
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Indicators fail to perform well
Your headline "Paisley puts the elite to shame" is at best attention-seeking and at worst wrong. The report shows Paisley as having the best record in widening participation. But the statistics do...
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Tales of mystery and imagination
Consciousness - How To Build a Mind - Understanding Consciousness
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Holistic approaches
The Environment of Schizophrenia
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Quiet life but a big sound
Aaron Copland
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Retaining the psychic mystery
Lives of the Psychics
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a philosopher, mathematician and a man of science: " Common sense is the best distributed thing in the...
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Trees of life and the babel of tongues
Genes, Peoples and Languages
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Search for a switch to light up the brain box
Brain Story
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Did Margaret Thatcher really resign or was your memory playing tricks?
The Oxford Handbook of Memory
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When a rabbit is a red herring
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
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New Enlightenment gives Kulturwissenschaft a chance to flourish
Two new research centres are helping to redefine Jewish studies and rescue it from the academic ghetto, write Griselda Pollock and Eva Frojmovic If not yet at the heart of the British university,...
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Gargoyles, inkwells and brands of gold
University-branded goods are big business in the US - but it's a different story in the UK. Kate Worsley looks for the bottom line on what a logo is worth in profit and image The last time the...