Darkness in the Catholic confessional
Sexual scandal has rocked the Roman Catholic church but little attention has been given to the true nature of clergy abuse, writes Natasha Gilbert. John J. Geoghan took up his last post as an active...
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'Kicking around a cancer patient...'
...That's how we are treating the the reefs and seas, says one expert on coral bleaching. Linda Vergnani reports on scientists' alarm about the state of our oceans. Just off Heron Island, Australia,...
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The rich, the poor, the thick and thin
Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. If a computer program were asked to isolate...
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Triple helix holds the key to win, win, win situation
Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. European academia has much work to do to...
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Student selection and choice 1
It is a shame that David Mycock, a student at Derby College, was put off applying for Oxbridge by what he saw as the "elitist" attitude of recruiters at a Manchester fair ("I've struck elitist...
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Student selection and choice 2
Psychology must not be dragged down the road of media studies by detractors of vocational choice. According to the latest What Graduates do? report, 64.7 per cent of psychology graduates are employed...
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Student selection and choice 3
Knowing students' A-level results before selection could intrude into our complacency (Leader, THES , August 15). What if we have to define what is special about educating undergraduates to identify...
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Odd.job@ox
You published a curious university advert for a "director of studies" who is not required to teach (or research), or ever to have done so ( THES , August 8). It could be Poppleton University, but it...
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Asian history ignored
Despite our long colonial and trading history, the UK has never had a national plan for teaching Asian languages and cultures, a proper knowledge of which is vital now more than ever to our economy...
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False pretences
Joanna Swann (Letters, THES , August 1) implies that Karl Popper originated the theory that science is, or should be, distinguished from non-science by the criterion of falsification. Popper claimed...
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What about hi-flier?
Temperatures in Guildford rose to extremes when your travel and tourism subject focus omitted to mention the pioneering and world-class work of the University of Surrey ("Rise in degrees as things...
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Beware plagiarism
Academics should protect themselves against deliberate or inadvertent copying of their work ("Pondering the plagiarism plague"; "Academic claims Seoul credit for others' work", THES , August 1). This...
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Don't stifle debate 1
Michael Rutter's review of Frank Mieles' Conversations with Arthur Jensen is suitably ambivalent (Books, THES , August 8). Rutter has previously suggested that some tendencies, including criminal,...
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Don't stifle debate 2
In discussing the melanic form of the peppered moth, Michael Majerus does little to support his claim that "Darwinian evolution is fact" (Soapbox, THES , August 8). Rather than present "the most...
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Size matters
So frescoes bombed in 1944 were shattered into pieces "the smallest the size of a farthing" ("Italian scientists to piece together bomb-damaged church frescoes", THES , August 15). Now, how small...