Rushdie's omission
ALEXANDER Evans (THES, July 18) fails to address the crucial point of my review (THES, June ). This concerned Salman Rushdie's claim that Indian literature in English since 1947 is superior to...
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Why means-testing will end in tears
IF THE Government is intent on charging fees, means-testing loans and protecting the "poorest" students then it must seriously consider how it determines who are the poorest. The Mandatory Awards...
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Confirmed bachelors
IN RESPONSE to your article on course advertising by German universities, in particular the TU Dresden, where the introduction of bachelor's degrees by TU Dresden from next semester is described as...
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Double trouble
(Photograph) - After Ian McKellan's Richard III and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, comes Betty and Bobby's Macbeth. Queen Margaret College drama students Claire Knight and Rozlyn Sheridan play Betty and...
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Boycotted bank bids for debt
A BANK boycotted by students for being "unethical" is among those bidding to buy the student debt. Student unions have been advising their members not to use Midland Bank for the past six years,...
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Death, fire, closure
A Kenyan university is facing indefinite closure after a nearby trading centre was burnt down by students angered by the mysterious death of a colleague. Vice chancellor Japheth Kiptoon shut down...
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Keep tuition free and tax industry
While researchers rejoice over Dearing there are those who believe that tuition should remain free and that part-time students deserve more support AS a former headteacher of an inner city...
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Don's diary
Wednesday Work has been pretty heavy for the past few weeks, so it feels self-indulgent to leave at 5pm, but we have a football match against civil engineering, which kicks off at 5.30. With a minute...
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How will we feel the morning after?
YOU COULD be forgiven for thinking, the way the chatterati are talking, that constitutions live in capital cities. Ours, it seems, is probably going to be devolved from Westminster to Edinburgh,...
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Nordic nadir for nepotism
A BOOK published in Denmark earlier this year, The World's Best Educational System (Verdens bedste uddanelsessytem: Copenhagen: Fremad, 1997), takes aim at the Danes' long-held belief in the...
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Sacked 'racist' is to appeal
Edinburgh University's self-declared "scientific racist" Christopher Brand, sacked last week after being found guilty by a university tribunal of gross misconduct, says he plans to appeal. Psychology...
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Plunder and fighting folk
Celt and Greek
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A vibrant splash on the palette
Matthew Smith
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Speaking Volumes: Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point
On Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point. The undergraduate college I went to in Bombay was so short of classrooms that it taught the arts lectures from 7.30 am to 12 noon and the science ones from...
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Will the real Mr Jinnah stand up?
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity