Red letters
(Photograph) - Red letters: The main gateway of the new British Library, London, has emerged from its hoardings, displaying the lettering of David Kindersley, who died this year having been one of...
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Bank on UMIST
The leading professional banking qualification is to be given Manchester University degree status in a move which could lead to the decline of rival banking courses. The associateship of the...
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Crime, lives and videotape
David Puttnam tells Kam Patel that movie violence must influence the way people behave while Michael Winner rubbishes the idea. A team of academics is researching possible links. In Brian De Palma's...
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Chart hits?
Some geographers are getting very excited over the uses of computerised mapping systems. Others are not convinced. John Davies reports. Cartographic wonder-tool or overhyped techical gizmo? Enhancer...
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Virtual politics, as seen on TV
Did Clinton's health care reforms perish in the glare of the TV lights? ask Edwin Diamond and Robert Silverman. At one point in the mid-1990s, the number one and number two bestselling books in the...
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New ending from the history man
Francis Fukuyama tells David Walker why greater trust between people would lead to more prosperity. Alfred Schutz is not a name that appears among the many social thinkers listed in the compendious...
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The landscapesof tyranny
Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini used art to cement their power, reports. An immense building project is underway in Moscow to recreate Russia's largest church. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 30...
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Key to the door for graduates
It is ironic that at the very moment when sweetness and light has broken out on all sides in what had become a largely sterile debate about how to ensure the quality of university teaching, the real...
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Real national product
Nations differ in the way in which they organise research and development and in the way they prepare innovations for the market. Germany has long been renowned for the strength of its basic research...
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Treasury's shadow must not fall on pay
S P. Rouse is correct in the view that pay review bodies are unlikely to result in fair, professional pay levels for the higher education sector (THES, letters, October 20). It is questionable,...
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Stereotype in mono
My colleagues and I appreciate the spirit of your cartoon (THES, October 20) depicting the management of this university. However, now that there are six women vice chancellors perhaps your...
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Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your leader (THES, October 20) rejects the call for a central higher education planning agency. You are surely right to doubt the efficacy of the proposal; but you seemed to have missed the main...
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Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your front page headline "Call for Central Control" and your main leader (THES, October 20) deal unfairly with the arguments in the report Higher Education in a Learning Society, which has six...
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Tesco, ergo sum
Richard A. Burridge argues that a crisis of value in higher education is shortchanging students and society. The academy in ancient Athens was at the edge of the agora so that its deliberations about...
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Haggling in the marketplace
The animal spirits of education entrepreneurs have rewarded Iona Burchell with two degrees, debt and no job I noticed a job advertisement the other day in a local paper which proudly proclaimed that...