Phoenix needs help to rise
The image of Zubin Mehta directing Mozart's Requiem in the still warm ashes of the university library was one of the most powerful from besieged Sarajevo. The music was not only for the repose of the...
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Phoenix needs help to rise
* Edinburgh University and Edinburgh District Council have joined in a town and gown initiative to help combat the trauma suffered by children over the past four years, Olga Wojtas writes. Nigel...
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Thinkers weigh in on welfare reform
French intellectuals have weighed into the crisis over welfare reform in typical fashion, with one text supporting prime minister Alain Juppe and another declaration supporting the strikers. The...
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Siberian teachers vote for strike over poverty pay
University teachers in Siberia were due to strike today in what had been planned as Russia-wide protests against poverty-level wages and poor funding for state education. Professors and lecturers in...
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United by a sense of outrage
Universities are in serious decline. Many senior academics have recently used this, and the latest round of Government higher education spending cuts, to argue the case for top-up fees as a way out...
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Liability noose deters volunteers
Michael Shattock says Lord Nolan should examine whether governing bodies can cope with more laws and less cash, while John Hall (right) argues that governors face too much risk of financial liability...
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The Nolan roadshow
This week The THES is opening a debate on the issues being explored by Lord Nolan's committee on standards in public life. Apart from hearings in Edinburgh and Cardiff in the New Year, the committee...
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Canon lore for musicians
In attempts to define the literary canon, the oldest works usually cited are the Iliad and the Odyssey, both of which are about 3,000 years old. This means that people got on fine without them for...
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A king of hearts?
I am grateful to Max Beloff for his generous review of my book The Monarchy and the Constitution (THES, December 8). But I am surprised that he questions the statement that "Edward VII through his...
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United by a sense of outrage
The severity of the Chancellor's budget for higher education calls for a dramatic - but carefully planned - response. The sense of outrage expressed by speakers at last week's Committee of Vice...
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New model argument
So is Roger Penrose (THES, December 8) an opponent of computer science, pathetically fighting for the superiority of physics over computing? I wonder what has caused this ludicrous bias? It seems to...
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Bishop's move in seat of learning
While I could not agree more with T. C. Simmonds that it is wholly inappropriate for a further education college to confer the title of professor on its staff (THES, November 24), it is important...
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Fair about the bairns
Gavin Fairbairn's article highlighting his anti-abortion stance (THES, December 8) certainly instigated an interesting debate, particularly his comment that "an increasing number of people spend...
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Eastwards gung ho
Wang Gungwu (THES, December 8) confuses two different arguments. One is that Asian countries must develop an intellectual orientation, possibly through changes in the educational system, which...
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Peace and goodwill
So Queen's University and the University of Ulster are in a "race to capitalise on the peace process" (THES, December 1). The question in ten years' time will be what support the Government gave...