Open to errors
As staff at Sussex University's Science and Technology Policy Research Unit and Brighton University's Centre for Research in Innovation Management Centre, we are greatly concerned at the poorly...
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Read carefully
Katie Gramich (Letters, March 16) accuses me of seeing devolution only as a "problem" and of considering solely the English aspect of it in my review of Christopher Bryant's The Nations of Britain (...
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Not one for answers
For John Armitage (Opinion, March 16), Jean Baudrillard provides "a much-needed critique of semiotic society". However, while postmodernism may pose some awkward questions, it can have no answers. In...
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Art makes it personal
Anne Bamford's article (Opinion, March 23) is a refreshing reminder of the value of our art schools in fostering innovation. Most of us working in higher education know that lectures do little to...
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Made into a jobsworth
My response to the contemptible rise of corporate-style management in higher education ("Corporate push spawns 24/7 culture", March 23) has been simple: I work to rule. Once I was happy to respond to...
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Built-in obsolescence
Much of the debate about the redeployment of postdocs displays a profound ignorance of the structure and mores of the postdoctoral research system. Because their skills are often highly specialised,...
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Bored, not befuddled
Protestations that members of the University and College Union were possibly put off by the complexity of the voting system in the ballot for the union's general secretary ("Low voter turnout raises...
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Flora seeks fans
Ken Bowler's article on the plight of zoology (Opinion, March 16) comes as no surprise to those of us in the plant science community. Bowler correctly surmises that the decline in interest in "whole...
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Leader: We must tackle the literacy crisis
It is a mark of how committed academics are to their students and to teaching that there has been no outcry nationally over the levels of students' preparedness for university study. Lecturers do not...
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Leader: Too much Kant?
Plato, apparently, had little time for business and businessmen, believing that only the worst types of people bothered with such stuff. But then he was in the habit of denying the reality of the...
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Alan Ryan
First, the obligatory declaration: both my parents left school before their 14th birthdays, one grandfather drove trucks and the other was a shot-firer on the South Yorkshire coal field. Actually,...
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Today's news
Quash anti-Semitism, says minister The Government is due today to unveil steps universities must take to stamp out campus anti-Semitism. Phil Woolas, the Communities Minister, , is expected to...
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Today's news
Warning over Islamic extremists operating in universities Race hate laws should be used to crack down on extremist groups whose activities are prompting a rise in anti-Semitism at Britain's...
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Today's news
Fury at US intelligence chief’s Exeter visit Academics at Exeter University have protested against a talk given by Stephen Cambone, a former US intelligence chief accused of condoning abuse in Iraq....
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