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  1. Michael Baxandall, 1933-2008

    Michael Baxandall, widely considered one of the finest postwar art historians, died on 12 August at the age of 74. He was born in Cardiff on 18 August 1933 into a family steeped in the world of...

    #People

  2. University of Oxford - MBA student targets US market

    Students from poorer families in America could find it easier to access higher education thanks to a new funding initiative devised by MBA student Scott Patterson, based at the University of Oxford's...

    #Institutions
    #News
    #University of Oxford

  3. Where excellence shines through 1

    As ever, my old friend Kevin Sharpe in his opinion article harks back to a non-existent golden age of academia ("A lighter weight of paper", 28 August).A recent perusal of several PhDs published in...

    #Letters

  4. Where excellence shines through 2

    Kevin Sharpe asserts that the requirement for PhDs to make an original contribution to knowledge "has gone even from elite universities" and is being replaced "in many institutions" with a need to...

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  5. Bridging the language gap

    I read with amusement, interest and a degree of recognition William Burns' opinion article ("Ditch the island mentality", 4 September).However, I have two objections to make. The first has to do with...

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  6. Staff costs remain steady

    Your article "Finances top list of threats to the health of UK sector" (4 September) includes the assertion from Grant Thornton that for universities, "pay is somewhere between 60 and 70 per cent of...

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  7. Thoughts and feelings 1

    In his work on Jungian individual difference, the psychologist David Keirsey posited two kinds of "ideas" people: intuitive thinking types, who value logic-based ideas, and intuitive feeling types,...

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  8. Thoughts and feelings 2

    Contributions to the recent debate on university standards have characterised the Government's current view as being that the function of higher education is principally to prepare students for the...

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  9. Right-thinking Marxists

    I was interested in Anthony Glees' revelation about the apparent "left-of-centre to Marxist consensus" in education ("Culture in the state-funded sector condones failure, claims professor", 4...

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  10. UK complicit in US actions

    Alistair Duff justifies singling out the United States for criticism for its use of illegal interrogation techniques in the War on Terror because he claims that no other Western country has used...

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  11. Spelling is a teaching issue

    Paul Seedhouse (Letters, 4 September) says that I should not write about spelling because I am not a specialist in this area and because no coherent principles were applied to what I said on this...

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  12. Dickens of a debate

    While I agree with some of the sentiments Jonathan Taylor expressed about not colonising the past with our current preoccupations ("Progressively benighted", 14 August), I have to take issue with his...

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  13. University of York - Racism allegations probed

    Police are investigating an allegation of race hate said to have occurred at a National Union of Students (NUS) training seminar at the University of York. The Yorkshire Post reported that a sign...