Raise your glasses, please
(Photograph) - Raise your glasses, please: Leonard Hewitt's Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University - nicknamed the "toast rack" - is one of eight post war university buildings to be...
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Stature and her liberty
Marina Warner's position outside mainstream academia may have served her well, says Elaine Williams What is a woman from Vogue doing taking on the Church?' That's what the critics were saying. You...
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Terra infirma
A royal commission has just concluded that we do not know much about the ground beneath our feet. Kam Patel unearths some disturbing facts about soil, and three experts explain why its degradation...
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Low seepage syndrome
Soviet-style secrecy has a long half life as far as radiation is concerned, and it is endangering lives. Tim Cornwell reports Under President Bill Clinton, the US government has been busy...
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Too few loaves, hardly any fishes
More people, higher expectations and dwindling food stocks all add up to a disaster we will be unable to ignore. Martin Ince reports Global warming has caused a worldwide argument between the merely...
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A joint cake is better than a slice
There used to be a binary line between one type of advanced education and another. With the re-creation of the polytechnics and some colleges of higher education into universities, the line has...
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Wound that must heal
In the Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela describes apartheid as a policy that "created a deep and lasting wound". It is a wound that has damaged people, institutions like the University of Natal...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. Arrived to observe the Iowa caucus, an early part of the presidential election. In time to experience temperatures among the lowest ever recorded here - lower than -40o Fahrenheit. Find...
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Take stock of big issues
In her statement to the House of Commons and her article in The THES last week Gillian Shephard maintained that a huge and exciting agenda faces all of us with an interest in higher education. How...
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Say what?
On p50 (THES, February 23) you had an ad that began with the words "BBSRC EPSRC ESRC MRC NERC PPARC DENI HEFCE HEFCW SHEFC". On p51 you had a Linguaphone ad that said "tick the language you want to...
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Wrong note on great music
Malcolm Miller has missed the point of my article in Early Music (THES, 23 February). "Great" music becomes great and stays great not "transcendentally" (his theory) but consensually: if enough of...
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Unreasonable liberty taking
As Martha Nussbaum rightly notes (THES, January 26), some feminists have in recent years sought to challenge liberal emphases on individualism, objectivism and reason. She is also correct in her...
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Drawn short
Maureen Cox (THES, February 23) highlighted the general view that Chinese children's drawings are better than those of our own children. Better usually means the greater similarity of the subject to...
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NVQs marked 'export to Mexico'
We would like to point out to your correspondent Terry Hyland (THES, February 16) that the National Council for Vocational Qualifications welcomes the reports and studies which provide a critique of...
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A mine of solutions for Solomon
The Dearing committee's task is to cull the best ideas from the great debate on higher education, not to dream up something new, argues Frank Gould (below). Nigel Forman (right) adds that new private...