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  1. In brief

    I was disappointed that Lord Butler in his review of John Campbell's book on Margaret Thatcher thought the sub-title,"The Grocer's Daughter" was belittling ("The road from...

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  2. In brief

    Grocers did not sell "fruit and veg". Bully beef was more their thing. I grew up behind a greengrocer's and do not want guilt by association. Ian McNay School of post-compulsory...

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  3. In brief

    Thanks to THES for investigating some of the negative results of the anti-GM campaign. Could we see on prime-time television the well-established benefits of GM to the UK public (human insulin, beers...

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  4. In brief

    The Economic and Social Research Council has run an electronic submissions system for the past three years and receives more than 70 per cent of grant applications electronically ("Research...

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  5. In brief

    It was bizarre to overlook the established and highly regarded social policy department in Oxford in the feature, "Social science takes a place at High Table" ( THES , October 20)....

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  6. Raising class stakes

    While welcoming Alistair Ross's call for more working-class students (Letters, THES , October 20), his prescriptions are not radical enough. The solution Ross proposes misses the point. Giving all...

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  7. Fields of dreams

    Virtual field trips may be a long way from being fully virtual but they still have an important role to play in preparing students ("It's an IT field day, but students lose", THES...

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  9. Webwise build from bottom up

    Small, focused efforts will deliver success in net-based learning, says Roger Waterhouse Everyone knows of the huge potential for e-learning. In a short space of time, the internet could...

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  10. It's for life, not work

    Contrary to what the head of Ofsted says, the value of a degree extends far beyond mere utility, argues Alannah Tomkins To paraphrase the words of an educational commentator: the education of the...

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  11. Readers' reactions

    Last week in The THES..Gillian Evans argued that vice-chancellors should avoid personal commercial involvements. Andrew M. Colman Professor of psychology University of Leicester Vodafone's gift of...

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  12. Cutting Edge: Rainer Kind and Stephan V. Sobolev

    What causes the giant Hawaiian volcanoes? Scientists have devised a way of finding out. The Hawaiian volcanoes are higher than Mount Everest when measured from the bottom of the ocean. What creates...

  13. Health fails to bring in cheque

    London has a valuable patient base, so why isn't the capital profiting from medical research funding? Martin Ince asks. It ought to be a dream match. Britain's biggest group of medical researchers...

  14. Make a killing on property

    The government hopes that new guidelines will increase the exploitation of intellectual property rights by public research bodies - Philip Atkinson explains. As part of its new approach to publicly...

  15. Did virus kill off mammoth?

    Evidence of the first viral infection identified in an extinct animal has been recovered from the remains of three woolly mammoths. The discovery marks the start of an attempt to solve one of the...