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KUBA TEXTILES The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is presenting an exhibition of Kuba textiles which will feature early and recent examples, as well as a collection made by Wilfred Thesiger's father when...
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Ulster's restrained guardians
Paul Wilkinson praises the army and RUC's role in countering terrorism. The United Kingdom has experienced the most protracted and lethal of all indigenous terrorist campaigns in western Europe, the...
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How to pamper professors
Igor Aleksander was invited to a Californian multidisciplinary conference, or was it a three-day dinner party? My invitation to speak arrived last July and, somewhat flattered by the promise of "big...
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Redrawing the map by numbers
In the 1980s Britain went indicator mad. Every institution was subjected to the attentions of managers and auditors compiling new performance indicators to set budgets, measure progress and turn the...
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Neural nonsense
While I find John Taylor's argument (THES, March 3) interesting and although I share an interest in neural network techniques, I cannot agree that we are on the verge of a breakthrough in...
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Super-vision
St Antony's College was singled out in an article about the Graduate Student Charter (THES, March 3) as an example of a graduate college where some dissatisfaction exists regarding university...
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Debenture stuck on the slipway
In your leader column (THES, March 10) you stated that Lancaster University had launched a Pounds 35 million debenture issue. Not so, unfortunately. We have been on the slipway for some time, and had...
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Danger in strict codes of conduct
I was appalled by the article on campus "Don Juans" by Pam Carter and Tony Jeffs (THES, March 10). Granted there are, regrettably, occasions when students are harassed and pressured by tutors into...
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Drawing the line on classes of degree
The tragicomic scenes being played out at the University of East Anglia (THES, March 10) again confirm the need for a thorough revision of final degree assessment practice. As both university teacher...
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Freud's shelf-life
Frederick Crews in his article, "Cheerful assassin defies analysis", (THES, March 3) presents himself as a sort of St George, "a kind and gentle man" slaying the psychoanalytic dragon because of his...
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Take the high road
Jean Barr argues that the Scottish adult education review offers a chance for resistance and transformation. Liberal adult education has been a small but durable part of the profile of the "old"...
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Injustice for the probation system
ÌÇÐÄVlog Office proposals to remove the training of probation officers from universities, reported in The THES two weeks ago, have wider implications. They may, if implemented, threaten other forms of...
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Time for stability...
This week Sir William Stubbs sat before the Public Accounts Committee for a grilling on the financial health of his two-year-old baby, the further education sector. The chief executive of the Further...
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Fraud ends on sick note
Allegations that Greek students have faked illness, backed by forged medical certificates provided by eminent doctors, in order to transfer from universities abroad to ones at home have led to...
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Corrupt baroni meet their match
Semiologist Umberto Eco is among 77 leading Italian academics who have appealed to the country's new university minister to stamp out fixing exams in favour of powerful professors' proteges. In an...