Risk thrives in open society
Regions with a large number of gay couples and ethnic minorities are likely to be more successful at entrepreneurship. Speaking at the launch of the International Entrepreneurship Forum in Birmingham...
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Robots herald Chico's arrival
New-media artist Chico Macmurtrie signalled his appointment as a senior research fellow at Nottingham Trent University by previewing his latest creation - an installation called "The...
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Spanish centre is funded by PwC
IESE Business School and consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers are setting up a $1 million centre for research into European e-business. The centre, officially launched yesterday, has been operating...
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Raising profile is a start but what about pay?
The Commons select committee inquiry into higher education is in little danger of becoming another Dearing-style doorstopper, as chairman Barry Sheerman fears. Its terms of reference may be wide, but...
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Jung: rational views
In his review of books on the philosophy and psychology of consciousness, Jeffrey Gray attributes the phrase "New Mysterians" to Daniel Dennett (Books, THES, October 13)....
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Gatekeepers to the middle class
Ian Lovecy fails to acknowledge the pivotal role of universities in the reproduction of social inequalities (Letters, THES, October 13). By continuing to admit only those who have acquired particular...
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Gatekeepers to the middle class
Your report on Oxford University inaccurately reports that it does not head a single newspaper league table ("It's goodbye to Brideshead", THES, October 13). The department of...
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Gatekeepers to the middle class
Claire Sanders reports that "many vice-chancellors maintain that Britain can sustain only two world-class universities". Who, which and why? To hazard a guess that "world...
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Gatekeepers to the middle class
Mike Smithson, Oxford's (and formerly Cambridge's) development director, says "in Cambridge it just takes ten signatures on a ballot to bring an issue before the Regent House. I found that...
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Hetero overexposure
So staggered was I by the total lack of critical comment in Raj Persaud's article, "The reason why Sir goes extracurricula?" (Research, THES October 6) that I decided to use it in...
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Anthropology's allies
In response to Edward Allison's challenge to explain "how anthropology champions the victims of western arrogance" (Readers' Reactions, THES, October 13), I point him to the growing...
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Common plight
It is a pity your reporter spoke only to the dean of the school of advanced study at London University, of which the Institute of Commonwealth Studies is a part ("Commonwealth institute...
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Journal defended
The Political Studies Association decided the editorship of its new journal after consultation and competitive tendering (including a bid from the London School of Economics), not by holding a &...
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Journal defended
In a hostile review of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations , Alex Danchev chooses to use as part of his case an obituary of Jim Bulpitt. This is an inappropriate reference to...
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Welcome coverage
I applaud your recent coverage of South America, in particular Chile ("Protests lead to merger", THES, September 22). This fascinating continent tends to be little understood by...