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  1. Origami and string - the universe explained

    In the second of our Big Science Questions, Sir Martin Rees ponders the origin of the universe, while Martin Ince juggles the pieces of a cosmic puzzle. Evidence that our universe had a hot dense...

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  2. For dangerous roads, keep a sweet bouquet handy

    Smell can have a marked effect on the ability to carry out tasks, recall memories and concentrate, writes G. Neil Martin If you had to relinquish one of your senses, which would it be? Vision?...

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  3. Alienation is the price of education

    Geoff Maslen reports on the black academics who are determined to give Australia's Aborigines an education without destroying their cultural identity. "I have a couple of grandsons who say they hate...

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  4. Laurie Taylor

    Morning, Charles. Morning, Geoffrey. Good news then. Looks as though we might all be in for a nice little pay rise. How's that? Haven't you read about it? The government is allocating about £330...

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  6. Leader: Union's leader loss is merger lobby's gain

    Competitors are already lining up to replace David Triesman as general secretary of the Association of University Teachers. He, and his access to those in power, will be missed. But his departure...

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  7. Letter: Dynamic research

    I am no fan of the research assessment exercise, not least because it tends to regard numbers of outputs in a narrow range of refereed journals as evidence of research quality. However, the social...

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  8. Letter: Prudence and the bill

    You suggest that increased public spending on infrastructure could not be part of "any prudent economic policy" (Leader, THES , July 20). Private, voluntary, and not-for-profit provision is valuable...

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  9. Letter: False splitting image

    Your leader ( THES , July 6) linked projected financial problems in the National Union of Students with the alleged behaviour of NUS officers four years ago in order to question the whole ethos of...

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  10. Letter: Shore-up not shatter

    Redbridge College's failure to reach government teaching standards ("Colleges given ultimatum after Ofsted reports", THES , July 13) is hardly surprising when 25 per cent of staff left this year, six...

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  11. Letter: Firm foundations (1)

    Gillian Howie's view of the Institute for Learning and Teaching as "vapid and costly" (Letters, THES , July 20) is held by many who belong to professional associations. In the publications of the...

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  12. Letter: Firm foundations (2)

    Here we go again. The University of Liverpool's anti-ILT phalanx shooting from the hip with the same old misdirected anti-management musings. At the University of Salford, I am part of a team that...

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  13. Letter: Partners key to libraries' future (1)

    David Wells (Soapbox, THES , July 13) argues that university libraries have failed "to cater adequately for the research needs of their employees for more than a generation", thereby making the...

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  14. Letter: Partners key to libraries' future (2)

    It is depressing at the beginning of the 21st century to read an article suggesting that the British Library should cater only for the intellectual elite. Information should be available to anyone...

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  15. Letter: In brief (1)

    Proponents of a "Darwinian-based theory of literature" observe that our ability to tell stories is as much a product of evolution as our ability to make tools. They therefore declare all other...

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