Leeds censors access to Internet
Leeds University has decided to withdraw access to a range of Internet newsgroups because of their "appalling" content, which computer staff say often includes pornographic material. But some...
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Battle of the races
Affirmative action is under attack in the United States. Tim Cornwell reports. A snapshot from an ideological battlefield: reporters from the new conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, called...
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Whither the likely lads?
Whatever happened to the heirs of the New Left, asks Fred Inglis In the early 1960s there was a remarkable flowering of intellectual life in Britain with the bursting into colour of the New Left....
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Famous Seamus
Seamus Heaney admits to Simon Targett that even Nobel laureates get embarrassed giving low marks to favourite students. He looked like a farmer with dress sense. His burly agricultural frame, topped...
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Bengali Brahmin meets Berkeley
Bharati Mukherjee tells Ronald Warwick about her transformation from high-caste Indian into American writer. I met Bharati Mukherjee in Holland where she was launching the Dutch translation of her...
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The Lady who turned to nationalisation
Simon Jenkins analyses how Margaret Thatcher brought higher education to heel. Why are our universities so timid? As they steel themselves to respond to Gillian Shephard's higher education review,...
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Mature apprentice seeks titled role
Robert Oxtoby argues that institutions that can award degrees should be allowed to call themselves universities. Every now and then during the past 150 years, the higher education community in...
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Book move may net VAT
Joe Sinyor (THES, October 6) is correct to assume that the collapse of the Net Book Agreement will have a marginal impact on the price of core textbooks. My concern is that in the short to medium...
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Dr Peccadillo and assorted sins
The plagiarist, the fraudster and the cheat may be rare in academe, but that still leaves scope for some dubious practices, says Harold Hillman. Scientific fraud has been going on since the Greeks...
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Open debate on support
This week The THES is publishing in full a document drawn up by a group of student union officers on the funding of higher education (pages 8 and 9). The THES has long argued that students must be...
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Sights for sore eyes in Seattle
There is only one thing worse than arriving home with jet lag - arriving home with jet lag to find you have been comprehensively burgled while you have been away. I am not trying to let my experience...
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Across the Finnish line
This week will see the state visit to Britain of the Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari and his wife Eeva. The ripples from this four-day event should encourage the expanding academic traffic between...
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Bell hooks is no lone black voice
You were right to profile bell hooks as one of the outstanding black public intellectuals in the United States at this time (THES, October 13). However, it is inaccurate to describe her "as the only...
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Yesterday's solution on lecturer pay
I used to support the creation of an independent pay review body for higher education staff as does M. G. Roberts of Association of University and College Lecturers (THE , letters, October 13)....
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Speaking up for the ordinary Ulster view
Reviewers should declare their interests before they wield, let alone grind, their axes, and now that tit-for-tat killing may have ended in Northern Ireland perhaps there can be a cessation of tit-...