The Cinderella syndrome

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Pressure on hardship funds at universities traditionally associated with high living such as Oxford, Cambridge and Durham has increased, yet thousands of students will spend as much as 220 pounds sterling on a double ticket for a summer ball. Alan Proctor, president of the Students Union at Durham where the cost of ball tickets ranges from around 30 pounds sterling to 100 pounds sterling, points out that a significant number of students are suffering real hardship. Most new universities run at least one black tie event a year, with ticket prices starting at 25 pounds sterling.

Author: Swain, Harriet
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
Finance, Prices and rates, Universities and colleges, Recreation, Balls (Parties), British students

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The science police

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Professor of physics at New York University Alan Sokal explains that 'Intellectual Impostures', the book he has written with his friend of more than 20 years Jean Bricmont, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Louvain, Belgium, has two aims. The first is to attack social scientists who use mathematical and scientific concepts and terminology without apparently knowing what they mean. The second is to analyse 'confusions of thought' widely present in postmodernist writings dealing with the content or philosophy of natural sciences.

Author: Swain, Harriet
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
Interview, Physicists, Sokal, Alan

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