No sense in nonsense
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Cafe au lait avec la creme de siecle
Sartre - Camus and Sartre
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Surreal trip from Dada to Derrida
Modern French Philosophy
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Haunted soul hijacked by bigots
Friedrich Nietzsche - Nietzsche and the Fate of Art
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You have every right to get angry
The Quality of Freedom
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Inspirational reality check
Economics for an Imperfect World
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Church mice as profit centre
Enemies of Promise
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Laurie Taylor column
"Many university student complaint procedures may not conform to basic principles of natural justice" - The Times Higher, March 26. Next please. You must be Wayne Timmins. Is that right? Yes, sir....
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Leader: Who is in charge of admissions?
After all the hot air that has surrounded Steven Schwartz's review of higher education admissions, this week's report will leave many observers asking what the fuss was about. The five principles of...
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Leader: Age shouldn't matter
The latest enrolments on foundation degrees may be bad news for target-obsessed civil servants and their political masters. But the fact that almost half of those taking the courses are over 30...
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No real degree of happiness 1
David Watson is as wrong as it is humanly possible to be ("Expansion first, quality later", April 2). He claims that "higher education participation at the levels now being achieved around the world...
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No real degree of happiness 2
Sir Howard Newby (News, April 2) does not see the contradiction between his vision of the civilising role of universities and the role of his funding council. The closure of civilising departments...
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Astronomical effort 1
The article on Stuart McLeay's work ("Next RAE may demote 5*s", April 2) computes grade-point average (GPA) scores for the next research assessment exercise. It argues that there will be few...
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Astronomical effort 2
"Industry winners losing out in the RAE" (April 2) highlights one of the key problems with university reform: the craze for measurement and accountability presumes comparability. The assumption that...
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Dissent on descent
Paul Gross ("Why I don't believe Zionism is racist", March 26) neatly evades one of the key issues in the "Zionism is racism" debate. This is not only, or even mainly, about occupation. Zionism's...