Can we build an urban utopia?
The city should be a sphere of active democratic participation, argues David Harvey, but to achieve this, we must roll back the huge wave of privatisation The city, the noted urban sociologist Robert...
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Resting place for heads of state
Royal death masks, revolutionary corpses and grisly, sensationalistic tableaux of gruesome murders. At Madame Tussaud's, Pamela Pilbeam found a remarkable historical archive, not just Kylie Minogue...
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Cooking for terrorists
To understand terrorism, we must get close to terrorists, says Rohan Gunaratna, who has talked with Tamil Tigers, drunk with IRA men and discussed the Koran with Taliban fighters In 1984 I...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 1
Andrew Oswald relates vice-chancellors' pay (Soapbox, THES , February 7) to that of chief executives in business and industry, where rates can be as high as £500,000 to £1 million a year. Most people...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 2
Vice-chancellors' pay is rightly a matter for monitoring and public comment ("Union fury as v-cs pocket 6% pay rise", THES , February 7). Comment, however, should be based on proper comparisons. Your...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 3
In 1918, Thorstein Veblen said the US university was in decline because it had become "a business enterprise, bureaucratically organised under its 'captain of erudition', in pursuit of 'notoriety,...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 4
It is all very well to instruct the juveniles of academe to temper their envy of v-cs' pay. However, the rank and file might be justified in thinking that bosses who lead from the front in receiving...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 5
The failure to raise the London weighting to a level comparable to other public-sector workers has aggravated the problem of recruiting and keeping staff. The recent announcement of more funds for...
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Do v-cs deserve a PM's salary? 6
"Salaries in universities have to be competitive with those paid outside academia," says Andrew Oswald. But why does he think this applies only to vice-chancellors? Amanda Hopkins Rugby
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Affirmative fallout
If the US Supreme Court outlaws affirmative action in university admissions, it is not true that "private universities would be unaffected" ("US split over 'race' policy", THES , January 24). The...
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Keep Cambridge at top
If Cambridge were excluded from the select band of research institutions likely to benefit from greater government investment because of its governance ("Cambridge status at risk", THES , February 7...
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Interview critiques 2
I agree wholeheartedly with Alison Wolf's view that entrance examinations are a better and fairer way to conduct admissions than interviews. But it's absurd to call Oxbridge's reliance on interviews...
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Class, fees and sin 1
The widening funding gap between high and low-status universities is as much an equity issue as students' access ("Poor jump fee hurdle", THES , February 7). High-status universities with strong...
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Surveys are sound
Jim Taylor's criticism of performance indicators for the employment of graduates is based on a number of inaccurate assumptions ("Graduate jobs data deemed flawed", THES , February 7). The article...
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Baker's sorry standard
Gideon Toury ("Mona Baker's double standard", THES , February 7) is right to note the perversity of Mona Baker's attempt to justify the boycott by a British "private citizen" (Baker) of an Israeli "...