Imagine a world without bra warmers
He tucks into wild pigeon, he dictates notes to his secretary by clinging to a wall and speaking through a window instead of simply walking round to her office, he lies in a bath like Archimedes in...
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Rise of Anglo-Chinese
In this part of the world, it is commonplace to argue that English is important to the Chinese because of its usefulness in trade and finance. Anyone who is bilingual in Chinese and English can...
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The best kept low pay secret around
Not for the first time, I have been struck by how much more successful other groups of public employees are than university staff at drawing attention to their ungenerous treatment and at winning...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. The weekend before the start of the spring term. Drive to Warwick for a conference on Ben Jonson. Intellectually stimulating, it has been organised by a graduate student who has invited...
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Artificial flowers
On reading the new journal Organisation it is evidentt the editors clearly recognise "the artificial or constructed functionality of academic institutions and of the 'disciplines' which they sponsor...
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Library service appeal
Librarians from a group of British universities, which together produce a significant proportion of the total national output of research theses/dissertations, would like to invite comment on...
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Crumbling the daily bread
In "Grant us our daily bread" (THES, January ) Paul Morris, a student at the University of Central England, survives the year on a full student grant alone. I do not wish to enter into a political...
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Gloomy by not so hungry
Russian students are better fed than a year ago despite the plight of the country's universities, according to a survey published by the youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. The survey was carried...
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Inquiry backs course fees for postgraduates
Australia's universities are expected to earn more than Aus$150 million (Pounds 75 million) this year by charging postgraduate students course fees. Since 1989, when universities were allowed to set...
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Universities fined for hoarding funds
Danish higher education institutions, which are complaining that they have too little money for research and tutors, are risking fines for accumulating government funds paid to them for teaching....
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FE slave-owners
Contrary to your report (THES, February 24) "mistrust of CEF chief executive Roger Ward" is not the reason for lecturers' union Natfhe refusing Acas's offer of conciliation. He is not more...
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Crime-busters take care
The articles on genetics and crime by Adrian Raine, Krebs and Kacelnik, and Michael Rutter (THES, February 10) give an excellent picture, while the comments by other contributors add interesting...
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Semester pessimists
I feel compelled to challenge the indiscriminate criticism of semesters expressed by Jennifer Craven-Griffiths (THES, February 24). The problems which she associates with semesters, and by extension...
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Italian universities unfairly stereotyped
Paul Bompard's description of the Italian university system (THES, February 17) needs to be supplemented. The private sector's contribution is not only very small, but offers no guarantee that its...
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A case of kicking over those French traces
Events involving Eric Cantona in the past few weeks have encouraged considerable discussion in common rooms and even in classrooms. Is it possible to teach a course on French culture without the...