Majoring mayor: Jacqueline Abbott
(Photograph) - Majoring mayor: Jacqueline Abbott, a BA student at Thames Valley University, is taking her finals this summer and also became Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham last week.
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Glasgow creates job for wife of principal
There is growing concern within Glasgow University over the creation of a post for Florence Davies, the wife of Graeme Davies, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, who...
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Militants stop the clock on reforms
Ambitious bids for reform by lecturers' and students' leaders have been thwarted by concerted opposition from the conference floor. Natfhe general secretary John Akker lost the argument against a...
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A theatre of arrogance
Jonathan Ree describes how E. P. Thompson's savage attack on Parisian intellectuals was a calculated caricature that misjudged the capacity for irony of his readers. On the other hand," people will...
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Uprooting red daffodils
Anita Roy talks to professor of English, Meenakshi Mukherjee (right) about her iconoclastic approach to not-so-sacred texts. Owls are traditionally associated with wisdom in the west. In Hindu...
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Hate couture
Stella Hughes reports on the unpleasant experiences of an academic who chose to study French skinheads. French skinheads came under the spotlight last month when a young Moroccan strolling along the...
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Man: the story so far
Are humans different from animals in degree or in kind? Tim Ingold argues that the new Darwinism, far from offering a solution, is riddled with contradictions. Do human beings differ from other...
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Jeux sans frontieres
This week The THES debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...
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The parts league tables do not reach
I read with interest the university league tables (THES, May 19) There are many issues surrounding the formulation and presentation of league tables for universities but one in particular concerns me...
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A Victorian plot to drive down wages
Kathryn Ecclestone's letter (THES, May 26) is a welcome, commonsense response to the wilder advocates of "NVQs for everything" but she holds back from the deserved total condemnation of the idea....
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Bubble trouble
No smiles at Glasgow University, whose staff newsletter offered champagne for replying to a questionnaire. But instead of replies, it was objections that fizzed in to the next newsletter: "I find it...
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Foresight's six of the best
Six "strategic themes" have been identified by the Foresight steering group as offering opportunities and technologies likely to emerge in the next ten to 20 years. These are: materials; genetic...
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Degree level for third of workers
The Government has called on universities and colleges to help achieve the higher level national education and training targets unveiled this week. It wants at least 30 per cent of the workforce to...
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Kickstart for small business
Small firms are to be the main beneficiaries of a host of measures to boost the competitiveness of British industry. They will get the lion's share of Pounds 200 million, of which Pounds 125 million...
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Stewart urges togetherness
Big changes in the type of research supported by the higher education funding councils could be on the cards following this week's publication of the Foresight implementation report by the Office of...