Curiosity knows no bounds
Policymakers focusing on science's utility have consigned the humanities to a supporting role, but scholars in each of the 'two cultures' understand that they share a love of discovery and capacity...
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Another fine mess
Caught between posturing government ministries and kicked about like the proverbial political football, London Metropolitan University may have reached the point where it is no longer match fit,...
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'He cites me, hard, forcing my footnotes apart...'
The Fifty Shades phenomenon has spawned academic debate, scholarly parodies and now an erotic trilogy starring a dark, brooding, sensual...lecturer. Matthew Reisz reveals all
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'Spend, spend, spend' - marketing head's advice
"Someone is waking up and smelling the coffee!" That was the reaction of our Head of Marketing, Graham Flair, to the forecast by Tim McIntyre-Bhatty, deputy vice-chancellor of Bournemouth University...
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Love it when planning comes together
The coalition government's latest wave of planning reforms has been accompanied by a sentiment, cleared by No 10, to "get the planners off our backs". Such rhetoric threatens to cause potential...
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Gonzo gratitude (1 of 2)
Very occasionally, I receive nice emails from people I have never met but who have read my stuff. This morning I got one that began thus: "Dear Professor Hackley, I have just submitted an [Economic...
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Gonzo gratitude (2 of 2)
Helen Sword makes a good point about the clarity and readability of academic prose. Of course, not all academic concepts and research results lend themselves to being easily grasped and understood,...
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Do compare like with like
Although Felipe Fernández-Armesto writes authoritatively on the merits of high tuition fees in relationship to a positive student experience ("Reassuringly expensive", 30 August), he fails to...
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Radical regimen
The US is reframing its public health training so that it addresses the needs of a modern population ("US changes dose to treat public health malaise", 6 September). In the UK, the public health...
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For ever in their debt (1 of 2)
Replacing direct grants to universities with tuition fees backed by loans cuts the government's annual deficit. Borrowing to award grants to universities is counted as public borrowing, but doing so...
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For ever in their debt (2 of 2)
I am still trying to understand the implications of the student loans scheme for part-time and distance students in England. According to the DirectGov website's advice to such students: "You don't...
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Pork lightning strikes once
Ken Smith bemoans the fact that the University of Poppleton does not appear in the Index at the back of 糖心Vlog ('You're making this up", Letters, 6 September). He may be reassured...
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Limitations of knowledge
Your review of Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of Will ("Just one more wafer-thin mint?", Books, 16 August) should have recast the problem as one of epistemology.How can Jack, struggling in the...
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Snouts in the trough
Christopher Belshaw's call for "dispassionate, rational, evidence-based hard thinking" about animals and the natural world reminds me of calls to deal with the financial crisis with more deregulation...
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Ruth Etchells, 1931-2012
Ruth Etchells was born in London on April 1931 and adopted, at the age of 2, by a Congregationalist minister and his wife, who took her to live in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. She was educated at...