No desire for single union
John Akker (THES, March 29) seems to have got himself caught in a logical cleft stick. On the one hand he argues for a single educational union but wishes it to be confined to postschool education....
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Wise incomprehension
Colin McGinn (THES, April 5) believes that "the only way to avoid being checkmated by consciousness is to assume you do not understand it". He means: what is not understood is that, although we all...
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Intelligence contested
Mono-savants like Christopher, (THES, March 29) show very specialised, narrow abilities, low on abstract reasoning and linked to intense practice. Christopher may shed light on language learning, but...
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On the wrong road to Malay
Bill Watson bemoans the arrogance displayed by British academics and the business community towards Malaysia. When the prime minister of Malaysia speaks British business executives listen nervously,...
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Back to Slovak future
Universities the world over have their own problems, worries and joys. In Slovakia we not only have to tackle financial problems (who hasn't?) but also have to live under the threat of losing...
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Commonwealth trips on red tape
Whenever I meet fellow Commonwealth vice chancellors, as happened recently at the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Malta, I feel humbled by the severity of the problems faced by...
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Hoodolatory: history, myth and Mr R. Hood
Was the green-hosed outlaw really out there? asks Stephen Knight. Robin Hood, according to the old stories, took money at arrow-point from travellers in Sherwood Forest. The Nottingham tourist...
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It probably won't be you
Mathematician Ian Stewart explains why the National Lottery will almost certainly be won by somebody else. As a mathematician I have an ambivalent attitude towards that instant British institution,...
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Why do Britain's have-nots have less?
Tony Atkinson deplores the UK's record on income distribution and the relative neglect of the problem by economists. Income inequality has increased more sharply in the United Kingdom in the 1980s...
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Loans change
Ken Young, chairman of the Students Loans Company, is to leave in July after four years. Colin Ward was recently promoted to chief executive.
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Asia-Pacific push
Nottingham Trent University has created a Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies to develop research, teaching, community and commercial links with the region. NTU has franchised degree courses in Malaysia...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a native of Prague, who, for a time, was Rodin's secretary: "But were they to waken for us, the endlessly dead, a symbol, behold, they would point to the catkins on...
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Charlie's last pretence
From Rebel to Hero - 1745 - Lochiel of the '45 - The Desperate Faction? The Jacobites of Northeast England 1688-1745 - The 'Forty Five' - The Myth of the Jacobite Clans
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A turbulent media priest
Media Marathon
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Drunken editor staggers into history
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