Treasury commandeers MRC funds
How the Medical Research Council's will pay for its contribution to a new £500 million super-laboratory in central London was questioned this week when it was confirmed that the Treasury is to take £...
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The real world exists outside our metropoles
Social science theories are rooted in Europe and the US, ignoring other cultures' social thought, says Raewyn Connell. What do Milton Friedman, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas,...
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Undervalued, not overqualified
I was disappointed to see my union buying into the idea that academic work is all about research and that teaching is a second-order activity that requires no expert knowledge in one's subject area...
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Race for reason
Greg Garrard (Letters, December 7) accuses us of being passe in terms of our use of "topsy-turvy" Marxist social and educational theory. Although we differ on a number of substantive points connected...
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On the move....
Greenwich University has appointed Joanne Finkelstein, formerly at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, to the post of head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. David Clarke,...
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Learning to read the signals
Enjoying your pheasant, Roger? Mother, it's absolutely delicious. Really scrumptious. I'm particularly enjoying the garlic and the taste of juniper. Oh good. I hoped you'd like it. And what can I say...
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Rational religion
Many religious believers do express their faith in the intolerant ways Sally Feldman illustrates (Columnist, December 14), but when she summarises that “all too often it’s religion that contradicts...
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
'All predictions about the future have to be based on the past, so historians are best qualified to make them'. "That was a really depressing lecture, professor," said one of my students as we...
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'Oxford' events firm under fire
Critics say a US company charging £1,500 per participant for Oxford- based conferences is trading on the institution's name. Melanie Newman reports. A conference organiser has been criticised for...
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Well, it's a matter of, um, plain speaking
Hot on the heels of the National Student Survey comes another weighty document. This time the students surveyed are from outside the UK and hail from Europe and the rest of the world. The...
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One stroppy Lady
Huw Richards meets the Anglo-Iranian academic who has recently been raised to the House of Lords. Haleh Afshar had more warning than most new peers about her elevation to the House of Lords, but she...
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The wise men's gift
In an increasingly competitive research market, smaller universities need to find a unique selling point. John Gilbey recounts the tale of one vice-chancellor and his miraculous present. The vice-...
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Dark ages and shining swords
From papal-backed campaigns in the Middle East to temperance leagues and the War on Terror, the Western idea of the 'crusade' has mutated but endured. Jonathan Phillips on a history of holy and...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a foot soldier's memoir of his tour of duty: "It's incredible, it really is, isn't it?"." Entries,...
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Quiet witness to the ticking clock of life
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres