By the people, for the people
Reality TV is the consequence of liberalisation, a mix of the idiotic and the sublime. Clive Bloom surfs the multichannel-verse in search of entertainment
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Diary
LondonShadow CatchersPhotography is usually thought to require a camera to fix fleeting lighting effects on a flat surface. Yet it is equally possible to create images directly on photographic paper...
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The Pick - Alarming vision
Current DisturbanceThis is TomorrowWhitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Anglo-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum's Current Disturbance is an exceptionally disconcerting installation. It consists of a tight...
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A personal message from the vice-chancellor
Dear All,Last year was another year of achievement for Poppleton University.We retained our existing position in all but four of the leading university league tables and learned that our policy of...
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Post-results no easy path to better access
It was good to see Mary Curnock Cook, the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, reviving interest in a post-qualification application (PQA) system for university places ("Ucas...
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Use before summer 2011
Sally Feldman mentions the demise of the Lifelong Learning Networks ("Fuel for enlightenment", 9 December), which have been generously funded by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England for...
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Treacherous conditions
Betrayal has been the order of the month. The first group betrayed, the students, shouted about the Liberal Democrats' broken promise on tuition fees, but failed to observe that its own leadership...
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Acceptable bonus culture
There is an alternative to destroying undergraduate teaching in the arts and humanities and hiking tuition fees by 300 per cent. If Vince Cable is serious about getting tough with the banks, he...
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Tutorial lessons
I would like to correct the inaccurate assertion in the letter "Theory first, teaching later" (9 December) that Teach First features minimal university involvement.The Teach First initial teacher...
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Wrong coordinates
David Barton is wrong to say that I "attempt to belittle" the five published case studies from the research excellence framework impact pilots in English language and literature ("Beyond the...
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DIY end to journal tyranny
In my brand of "hardish" science, peer review still works tolerably well, in the sense that a good referee can improve a paper. However, the only effect of the reviewing is merely to maintain a...
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Norman Evans, 1923-2010
A leading figure in the movement to recognise experiential learning has died.Norman Evans was born on 6 August 1923 and educated in Bournemouth and at Rydal School, Colwyn Bay. After serving on...
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Film review: The Next Three Days
Duncan Wu suspends his disbelief to enjoy Russell Crowe as a gun-toting, all-action college teacher
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TV review: Wing and a prayer
The butterfly encourages people's imagination to take flight, says Gary Day, but are its days numbered?
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