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  6. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a semi-autobiographical book in which the author's friends, including W. H. Auden, appear under...

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  8. Dear Diary...

    Your diarist attributed to me the words of Ian Gibson (Diary, THES , July 5). What I said in the debate on the research assessment exercise at Westminster Hall was that it had not been proper for the...

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  9. Fight for 'other' Israel

    I have visited Israel many times and have always felt a deep attachment to the country. But I am filled with anger and despair at recent events there and in the occupied territories. It is essential...

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  10. More distortions

    The David Irving trial was not only about Holocaust denial and the nature of historical research, but also about fudging the truth. It also examined in detail the vexed question of how the subtle...

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  11. Value a degree 1

    The government buys places at UK universities cheap and then feels entitled to demand more for its money ("Lecturers told to get real-world job skills", THES , July 5). But if the government uses...

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  12. Value a degree 2

    Mike Hill, head of the Careers Services Unit, like the government, equates training with education. Vocational courses should be partnerships between universities and employers. The university...

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  13. Value a degree 3

    To read that working in a fast-food restaurant will be "valuable experience" for a student made me wonder if this was a news item left over from April 1. My experience of factory work was valuable...

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  14. Regional racism

    It was interesting to see the piece on institutionalised racism ("Too few black staff in FE", THES , July 5). But there is another form of internal discrimination: that operating against staff from...

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  15. V-cs on platform 93/4

    Your front-page article ("The train on platform 1 is not posh enough...", THES , July 5) about the need for Universities UK to charter first-class carriages to transport vice-chancellors to...

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