The scenic view
Simon Targett talks to the irreverent historian of landscape and descendant of Lithuanian loggers, Simon Schama. Simon Schama never knew Sir Percy Winfield. The old Cambridge lawyer had been dead ten...
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Backlash against the stress society
Last year we heard that lecturers were more stressed and pressurised than ever before. Whereas a generation ago universities were relaxing places to be (bar the odd sit-in or demonstration) today...
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Don's Diary
Friday. Super-shuttle to Heathrow. Pick up external member of Staffordshire university validation panel who works for both City University and Lyon Business School. It is proposed that the new course...
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Dismissed at a moment's notice
For the past five years I have worked as a part-time lecturer in the department of adult education at Hull University. Last month I was dismissed at a moment's notice and without any prior warning by...
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India ignored
How can Peter Harris (World View, THES April 14) talk of Asia without showing a trace of awareness of the Indian subcontinent? A consideration of the variety of Indian attitudes to democracy, for...
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Bring those accountable to book
Alfred Morris proposes a new model for quality in higher education. Tim Boswell's weary suggestion that in the absence of agreement between the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the...
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Charities' part in research
Graeme Davies is reported (THES, April 14) as stating that "universities are particularly bad at recovering costs from charities". The position of the medical research charities, 74 per cent of whose...
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Professor in an electronic ivory tower
Under the heading "Getting Granny Wired" (THES, April 28), Nicholas Negroponte suggests that most of those present at the G7 meeting in Brussels a few weeks ago had little understanding of the...
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Mergers that make sense
The Labour Party has this week catalogued the 245 English hospitals which have closed since the National Health Service reforms began, obviously expecting to make political capital from the public's...
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Churchill lessons
Unhappy the land that has no heroes . . . Unhappy the land that has need of them." Brecht's dialogue over the role of the hero will have deep resonance this weekend as Britain commemorates the 50th...
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US backs apartheid protesters
The American embassy in Tokyo has backed protests by foreign teachers at Japanese state universities against what they claim are "systematic dismissals" of foreign academics over a certain age and "...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word is taken from a work which first appeared under the name of Ellis Bell: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-...
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Speaking Volumes: Book of Insects
Kenneth Dover on Fabre's Book of Insects . I have sometimes been asked, "How old were you when you first became fascinated by Greek mythology?", and my answer, "I'm not sure I've reached that age yet...
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Current ideas, eclectic charge
Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
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A common wealth
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English