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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a travel book by an English novelist who wrote a novel aboutthe same country: " The border means more...
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Ebb and flow of riverside fortunes
Inland Flood Hazards
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Politics polluting your views
North Sea Cooperation
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40 ways to change a world climate
Emissions Scenarios
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Five reasons to last that theory course
Climate and Global Environmental Change - Global Warming - Environmental Physics - Statistical Analysis in Climate Research - Contemporary Climatology
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Laurie Taylor
"The University of Lancashire is to teach its academic staff how to speak to business people in their own language so as to boost their chances of winning commercial funding" - THES , January 19. Now...
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Leader: Respect for people will win informed consent
This week's report on the widespread clandestine retention of body parts at Alder Hey hospital and elsewhere uncovers practices aptly described as grotesque by health secretary Alan Milburn. Its...
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Leader: Any reform must put the interests of students first
This week's academic asset exchanges on Humberside are only the latest sign that the landscape of British higher education is starting to alter after many years in which fundamental change has been...
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Letter: In all fairness...
The report of the Schneider-Ross consultants who were brought in to look at Cambridge's equal opportunities performance unaccountably left out the students altogether (Soapbox, THES, January 26). "If...
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Letter: 'Fame' rebuttal
While it is always healthy to make space for a Whistleblowers column, it surely behoves The THES to produce balanced research on its stories ("'Fame school' hit by crisis of management", THES,...
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Letter: Out-of-date medicine
Linden West (Features, THES, January 19) uses a quote from an old article by us to support a stereotyped and outdated picture of undergraduate medical education. It is now a legal requirement that...
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Letter: Tory defence danger
The Conservative Party's proposal to privatise British universities would damage the country's economy and defence ("Tories' bold ideas need to show some substance", THES, January 26). Market forces...
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Letter: Coffee break
If teachers at Leeds University still have their own staff coffee room (Letters, THES, January 26), they should congratulate themselves on their good fortune and stop whingeing. Anthony Beck London