When actions speak louder than words
If the government's quest to raise school standards is to succeed, higher education must lend its support, writes David Albury. Since the election of the Labour government, some statements from the...
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Aptitude tests could widen social mixture
Widening participation, the government's most cherished higher education policy, has a fine ring. Who could oppose improving opportunities for students from families with low incomes? As this week's...
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Theology turns the other cheek
I hope Chris Lote's letter (THES, November 20) was tongue in cheek, but I fear it might be taken seriously. There is an implicit syllogism in his argument whose absurdity becomes all too apparent...
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Theology turns the other cheek
Lote reminds me of the 1960s, when social engineers were finding out everything about everything, and religion, like capitalism, was doomed as an outdated myth. Behind the arrogance lay the...
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Theology turns the other cheek
At least two members of my department satisfy Graham Ward's requirement of belief in the virgin birth of Christ and they are both Muslims. We have a professor with a DSc in psychology even if he is...
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Theology turns the other cheek
Last week's letter-writers all assume that the study of religion is either: done in departments of theology by people whose study assumes the truth of at least some of the views they explore and...
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Theology turns the other cheek
Chris Lote writes, "On the scientific level we understand the reason for religions", and then proceeds to present a set of personal prejudices as fact. Who are the scientists to whom s/he refers? Is...
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Theology turns the other cheek
Chris Lote's letter displays the kind of bad logic, simplistic theory and incipient racism that I find extraordinary in a high-level academic. His assertion that the principal reason for religion is...
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Thames teaching
As elected members of the academic board of Thames Valley University, representing academic staff, we would like to point out that if the views of teaching staff had been listened to earlier, the...
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Thames teaching
On Mike Fitzgerald's resignation, I am concerned that a myth is being created of someone who was a visionary but could not deliver. This is not the Mike Fitzgerald I have known and respected for more...
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When artists lose the plot
Art schools are turning out romantic narcissists, ignorant of the real world, argues Paul Bonaventura. There is, I believe, a fundamental problem with today's visual arts. Put simply, the larger...
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Why I... I believe the Lords were right to deny former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet legal immunity
Michael Byers, Fellow in international law, Oxford University, Legal adviser to the Chilean victims of Augusto Pinochet I was approached last month by a group of Chilean victims and organisations...
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The force of Freud
Is psychoanalysis finished? No, says Anthony Elliott No modern thinker has affected our views on identity and sexuality as forcefully as Sigmund Freud. Yet, according to some critics, especially in...
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Formulas for riches and fame
How can chemists turn base elements into gold? Well, they could emulate Peter Atkins and start writing phenomenally successful textbooks. Kam Patel reports. A few weeks ago, at his Royal Institution...
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In defence of the textbook
The writing of textbooks needs to be encouraged, argues Steven Kennedy Thomas Kuhn in his classic 1962 text, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , highlighted the role of textbooks in sustaining...