'Act or watch standards slide'
Radical intervention in higher education by the incoming government is needed if universities are to balance the demands of access and excellence successfully, according to Sir David Watson, Brighton...
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Forum looks at Labour ideology
The Labour Party's ideology is much more complex than many academics suggest, according to an Edinburgh University expert. Lindsay Paterson, professor of educational policy, said analysts focused on...
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Rumble from roll of the dice
Volcanology should be scientific not macho, says Clive Oppenheimer. In 1988, a long-dormant volcano called Galeras began to rumble. This rang alarm bells in Colombia as it was only three years since...
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Pharaohs' dress to unused Coptic
The publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica has decided that their product is no longer viable as a comprehensive work sold in book form and are replacing their traditional marketing with an online...
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Enlightening, but where is the Tefl?
Routledge Encyclopaedia of Language Teaching and Learning
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A very long list for the hopelessly canonic
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
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Humour found in the less than ideal
An Unspeakable Betrayal
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Meditations on pure reflections
Transformations of Mind
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No fairy-tale end for toad
In Search of the Golden Frog
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Cressida reveals all before you meet her
A Matter of Taste
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ÌÇÐÄVlogmakers and hooligans
Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by an author obsessed with sin and guilt: "Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with...
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Laurie Taylor
Well, a surprise victory there for the Liberal Democrats in a traditionally Conservative seat. Let us go straight over to Professor Stubbins for his analysis. Professor Stubbins, a surprise victory...
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Letter: Language of layoffs (1)
You refer to 60 voluntary redundancies at Imperial College School of Medicine ("London faces mass academic job losses", THES , June 1). This gives me an idea for a question for this summer's...
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Letter: Language of layoffs (2)
Your article on job cuts suggests we are close to a meltdown in foreign languages provision in some areas of the capital. London First, the organisation that promotes the development of the capital's...