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This week and next Oxford University will be debating, behind closed doors, the reforms recommended in the recently published North report. The easy bit for both Oxford and Cambridge to decide on (...
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At last adult learners are on the government agenda
David Blunkett's vision in the green paper The Learning Age is inclusive and generous but not without faults, says Alan Tuckett Adult learners were not uppermost in Kenneth Baker's mind in January...
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Thinking like a man is good for girls
Changes in Oxford University's marking system to accommodate a more 'women-friendly' approach will discourage risk-takers, says Jennifer Davey Finals. That one word can drive me into a state of panic...
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Bigger, better and autonomy intact
ACROSS the British system of higher education there is a deeply-held conviction that academic freedom - the capacity to pursue ideas, including uncomfortable ideas, wherever they lead - is...
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In the dock for art
I AM writing on behalf of the steering committee of the Standing Conference of Arts and Social Sciences, a body whose members are deans of faculties and representatives of subject associations in...
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Long live the viva
Ewan Gillon's assertion (THES, February 20) that the viva is purely a traditional torture for graduate students conveniently ignores some of the essential elements of the PhD. The very essence of a...
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Partners in progress
I WAS surprised by the negative tone of the article on the Further Education Funding Council's excellent report on collaborative provision (THES, March 6). The report shows that the quality of...
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Science friction
We enjoyed the article on Carl Djerassi ("Thrills, Spills and Pills" THES, March 6), but were intrigued by his distinction between "science-in-fiction", which he writes, and "science fiction", which...
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Scrutinise promotions
IT IS to be hoped that the decision by the visitor to reopen a grievance case at the University of York in relation to unsatisfactory promotion procedures will lead to a thorough review of this...
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What is knowledge?
Stephen Howe ("Blinded by Blackness", THES, February ) raises important questions about Afrocentrism that require fuller analysis to reappraise the nature of knowledge per se. However, the view he...
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Founding fathers' fever
Given that I am writing a young people's biography of Tom Paine, and our daughter has been accepted to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, I may be overly attuned to American revolutionary...
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Don's Diary
Monday After three weeks on board the German research vessel, Polarstern, we arrive at Drescher Inlet, a 20-kilometre crack in the Riiser-Larsen ice shelf 400 kilometres from the British Antarctic...
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Mixed blessings in a working Budget
HOW will next week's Budget affect higher education? Will it be "stop" or will it be "go"? Our productivity levels would make any chancellor of the exchequer green with envy if it could be reflected...
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That sums it up
Elements of Logic Via Numbers and Sets - Elementary Number Theory - Introductory Mathematics - Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering - Basic Linear Algebra
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the man who first introduced us all to the Butterfly Effect: "The police in...