Decline but do not mourn
When Bernard Wasserstein abandons the sociological mask of objectivity, he also seems to abandon some of his reasoning power (THES, May 3). He says it is axiomatic that all forms of cultural...
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Burden of spoof
Andrew Ross takes Alan Sokal, writer of a hoax cultural studies article, to task. The American media extensively covered the story of a physicist who published a spoof article in a leading cultural...
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Many Abbey returns
(Photograph) - Many Abbey returns: Students of George Martin's Salford University course in popular music recording recreate the Beatle's Abbey Road album cover in recognition of his knighthood in...
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Lead the dance
(Photograph) - Lead the dance: This ballgown by Kasha Morawsa, a fine art student at the University of Middlesex, might be a little tiring for a night of waltzes and foxtrots. Made of lead, it weighs...
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Dead mail
Equal opportunities is the latest area to come under the influence of higher education's quality obsession. The 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England has asked institutions to send it, before...
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Do researchers dream of ROPAs?
The Office of Science and Technology is planning a survey of researchers' attitudes to a troubled multimillion pound scheme to boost links between industry and scientists. The Pounds 70 million...
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Mobile Middlesex
Middlesex was among the first UK institutions to join in the Erasmus student exchange programme, with 150 students taking part in six of the initial one-year projects in 1987. It is now one of the...
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Labour is all ears
One of the tests of a mature political party is the ability to hold an open and sensible debate on important issues." There was an element of self-justification in Baroness Blackstone's comment at...
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Catapulted forward in time
Your article on Polykleitan proportions (THES, May 31) makes me wonder if they were the causes of the application of modular design in Greek catapults about 300 years later. The dimensions to be...
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Insanity plea
Their job involves fire-fighting, policing and door-to-door selling, but increasingly less of the role they were trained to do - psychiatry. Martin Deahl warns that the crisis in community care...
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Burlington Berties' battle
A dispute between learned societies that occupy coveted buildings in London's Piccadilly and the Government department that owns the buildings could end up in court. The occupants of Burlington House...
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Empty ahead
Freudian slip of the week, or evidence that Labour's new commitment to hardheaded capitalism extends to endorsing downsizing just as its strongest proponents start to have second thoughts? Shadow...
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Post-school vouchers on the cards
Education Secretary Gillian Shephard aims to improve post-compulsory education by introducing learning vouchers for 16-19-year-olds by September 1997. The decision, announced last week in the...
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Entente cordiale lures brains
Last week's launch of the Entente Cordiale Scholarship Scheme at the British Embassy in Paris could scarcely have been more timely. Parts of the French press and political establishment, reacting to...
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Consensus and sensibility
After the outcome of the 1992 general election, there are few people bold enough to state that Scottish devolution is a certainty after the next one. But there is increasing public debate of the home...