Laurie Taylor column
The Departmental Secretary Department of Mediaand Cultural Studies University of Poppleton Poppleton PP12 6HP Dear Maureen I do hope that you are enjoying your holiday in Scarborough (or was it Filey...
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Leader: Degrees retain market value, but for how long?
The financial benefits conferred by a degree will loom large this autumn as arguments rage about whether higher tuition fees can be justified. Ministers have lost no opportunity to quote the lifetime...
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Leader: Why not every town should have its gowns
Every town in Britain that has not got a university seems to want one. The latest initiative would involve creating the University of Chester from colleges in Chester and Warrington. The idea might...
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Secret worlds of Georgie girl
In penetrating the smokescreen that the wife of W .B. Yeats created, Ann Saddlemyer discovered the start of a much larger story. On November 18 1913, having reached the age of admittance to the...
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Academe gets in the right frame of mind
Emma is already planning her final-year dissertation for her degree in human geography at Southampton University. It will explore how self-help groups support people with mental-health difficulties,...
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Positive attitude adjustments
From September, universities must comply with the Disability Discrimination Act. Helen Hague looks at how two students with Asperger's syndrome are coping on campus and, below, discovers what...
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Sympathetic ear is only an email away
Students and parents can tap into a counselling service via the web. Anne McHardy reports. University counselling services are used directly by only a tiny minority of students, but they help to...
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An OBE for the soldier who fought the King
How did a Russian Jew who was exiled to Siberia, lost family in the Holocaust and fought British-led forces for an Israeli state earn an OBE? Nick Holdsworth reports. Tears of mirth still spring to...
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A popular president is not enough to keep a society together
President Putin is riding high in opinion polls, and much higher than his government. Richard Rose explains why. Since Vladimir Putin was plucked from bureaucratic obscurity in August 1999 to become...
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A new age school rises on the Tyne
A partnership of state, church and university is relaunching a school in a deprived area of Newcastle. But will it work? Chris Bunting reports. Sprawled across a windswept hill high above the West...
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Think local not global, small not big
Communities such as Brithdir Mawr in Wales teach us that sustainability begins at home, says Larch Juckes Maxey. The very notion of a world summit of experts and leaders to "sort out" sustainable...
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Head over heels 1
You show two versions of Andrea Mantegna's The Dead Christ ("Brush-off for Hockney idea", THES , August 23). Christopher Tyler's has the head at a distance beyond the feet in contrast to Mantegna's...
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Head over heels 2
The closure of fine art at Lincoln University's Hull campus and at Hull University ("Art students flounder after school axes places", THES , August 23) leaves local students bereft of a degree course...
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Question of support
Peter Lumsden's response to the requirement on universities to make reasonable adjustments under the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Act 2001 (Soapbox, THES , August 30) is disappointing....
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Down to witty gritty
Andrew Mueller says that Culture in Australia (Books, THES , August 23) lacks wit, style and is a missed opportunity for the inquisitive essayist. Quite so. The book, which I co-edited, is a...