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  1. A meeting of minds is the road to peace

    As bullets fly over Gaza, academics at Cambridge's Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations are focusing on spreading a message of religious tolerance. Anne Sebba reports. Prince Hassan of Jordan may...

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  2. In the EU, it's who you know that counts

    Tony Blair might be calling for closer ties with Europe, but if British universities want to benefit from EU funding, they'd do well to negotiate from the inside, reports Tony Tysome The lead-up to...

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  3. A history of rice and spice, and all things nice

    Other countries may deride Britain's fish-and-chips cuisine, but the nation boasts a rich culinary heritage dating back to the Norman conquests. Colin Spencer reports. Modern British cooking tends to...

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  4. To excel, simply remove red tape

    If British universities want to compete with the US they should overhaul their administrative practices, free academics from paperwork and abandon the honours system, argues Jeffrey Henderson. Why is...

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  5. Daily TV & radio guide - Friday

    The Afternoon Play: The Starving Girl of Llanfihangel (2.15 R4). An actual event from 19th-century Welsh history dramatised by Mary Cooper. Russia: Gold Domes, Black Earth (8.30 World Service,...

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  6. Laurie Taylor

    "Men are invited to apply for editorships of journals - women have to seek out these opportunities" Report from Women in Higher Education conference, THES December 1. Lapping speaking. Gordon, you...

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  7. Soapbox: a crushing workload

    Bureaucracy, home and child care are damaging women's career prospects, says Susan Bassnett. It is official: I work 57.5 hours a week. After taking part in the government's transparency review, which...

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  8. Letter: stub out BAT cash

    So Nottingham University is to accept £3.8 million from British American Tobacco to teach corporate social responsibility. (Now I have seen everything. Or is it just a matter of time before someone...

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  9. Letter: bad book marks

    The book reviews section is often the most intellectually exciting part of The THES . It is a shame that you have let yourself down by publishing (December 1) a sneering review of Jonathon Porritt's...

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  10. Letter: a lukewarm lobby (1)

    I welcome Peter Knight's article (Soapbox, THES , December 1) and his criticisms of the former Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals. Its record in lobbying government is not a good one. Where...

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  11. Letter: a lukewarm lobby (2)

    Universities UK is a misnomer (Leader, THES , December 1). Like its predecessor, the vice-chancellors committee remains, as John Griffith observed in 1989, no more than a collection of individuals...

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  12. Letter: Oxford's management malaise

    John Kay ("So we agree not to agree", THES , November 24), turns a timely and usefully harsh and penetrating spotlight on the governance of Oxford University, illustrating that the institution's...

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  13. Letter: goodwill talking

    I was interested by Nina Lemmens's letter ( THES , December 1), in which she mentions the new strategy of the British Council in Germany and how this affects academic exchange programmes run in...

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  14. Letter: Burmese daze

    As a School of Oriental and African Studies PhD student conducting research on Burma, I read your December 1 issue with interest. Phil Baty's article ("Scholar attacked for links to junta", about the...

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  15. Latest international news

    There's less lean in Pisa's tower Pisa's leaning tower now has the same angle of tilt it had in 1810, experts announced yesterday in Italy. Michele Jamiolkowski, professor...

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