'Implicit contempt' for teachers
I HAVE a job. I live in the real world. I work in a university. Suggestions that I or my colleagues employed in universities do not have a real job are insulting. Mary Lord is right to say that her "...
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A journey into fear
Stephen Court argues that the casualisation of academic labour represents a greater threat to academic freedom than the ending of tenure (THES, December 5). I agree, but would like to add that the...
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Don's Diary
Monday To the office to plan the week: teaching tomorrow. Or perhaps not. Banners announce a general meeting of all students to discuss a university-wide strike, Tuesday 2 pm. Tuesday 2.15 is when I...
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Guessing game of how many colleges
THE NEWS that the proposed triple merger to form Derbyshire Regional University has collapsed after approval was given by the Further Education Funding Council goes to show what fragile things...
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The icemen cometh
(Photograph) - Leeds University medical student Tom Agombar (front), Alex Phillips of Edinburgh University (left) and Portsmouth University's Tim Saunders spent 12 hours in the cold store at an...
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The world in a grain of sand?
How Nature Works
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Warts of the martyr
Thomas Cranmer
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Who's who of gurus
The Book of Enlightened Masters
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A hatred born of love
Muslims and Christians Face to Face
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Truth and a story to die for
Telling the Story
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Idol thoughts
Byond the Graven Image
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Spirits of a lost world
Studies in Modern Jewish and Hindu Thought
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How Silk transformed the country club
No Ordinary Place
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Yankee Oxfords
Importing Oxbridge
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Socratic citizens of the world
Cultivating Humanity