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  1. Dressed for success?

    The Diary extends a warm welcome to the fresh-faced and floppy-fringed Mary Stacey, the new independent chair of the national pay negotiating machinery for higher education. Ms Stacey looks far...

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  2. Currency before exchange

    UK universities prefer fee-paying students to European ones. Anne Corbett laments our policy on mobility. Is it an idea whose time has come - that British students catch up with their continental...

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  3. Don's Diary

    Taking it one day at a time in South Manhattan. Friday I got an email today that made me suspect it was Noughth Week in Oxford. Freshers there will have started feeling the effects of too much group...

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  4. Eyewitness: Russia's fragmented forests

    Logging, road building and the fires that often follow are threatening to destroy Russia's last remaining tracts of wilderness forest, new maps produced using satellite images show. Five years of...

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  5. A bewildered tribe

    As The THES turns 30, Simon Jenkins and Tariq Ali review three turbulent decades within and without academia. After Margaret Thatcher lost power in 1990, her most revealing reflection was over her...

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  6. A challenge for the next 30 years...

    The THES celebrates its pearl anniversary this week. Thirty years may be a scratch on the history of universities, but for British higher education they have been momentous. In October 1971 the...

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  7. The revolution has stalled but hope springs eternal

    As The THES turns 30, Simon Jenkins and Tariq Ali review three turbulent decades within and without academia. Thirty years ago an entire generation refused to accept the permanent insignificance of...

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  8. THES - the early years: Ex-editors remember

    Thirty years ago there were eight of us on The THES editorial staff and we had been given two years to get into profit - which we did much earlier. Still today, when I pick up The THES , instinct...

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  9. Master class in 'cheating'

    David Hockney believes that the only way the past masters achieved near photographic quality in some paintings was through optical trickery. Martin Kemp reports. It is so realistic that it looks like...

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  10. Digital debate that is striving to 'dumb up' democracy

    The abominable media coverage of major world events inspired Anthony Barnett to create a forum to encourage democratic debate. Huw Richards reports on opendemocracy.net, a digital hub for scholars...

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  11. Lifting the blarney stone that held down history

    Myth-making and storytelling have helped to repackage Ireland's recent history. Sean Coughlan meets the man who is determined to reveal the truth beneath the idealised vision Storytelling has a deep-...

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  12. DNA and other letters

    James Watson made his name with the discovery of the double helix in 1953. In his latest book, he draws on personal correspondence to recall what happened next. Jon Turney reports. How pleasant to be...

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  13. There's more to life than DNA

    It wasn't just science James Watson hotly pursued, says Ian Wilmut. I am among the thousands of budding scientists who read the first volume of James Watson's autobiography, The Double Helix , to...

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