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  1. The great Aids pandemic

    Aids entered the medical domain quietly in 1981 with a report in Los Angeles of five cases of severe pneumonia caused by a parasite, Pneuocystis carinii, common in animals but uncommon in man. All...

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  2. Rough-hewn chairs of history

    Furniture built of scrap and left to rot is now sought by auction houses and pored over by academics. Bill Cotton, the man responsible, sits down with Kate Worsley. Do you care enough about your...

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  3. A club is only as good as the members it attracts

    The ILT must reflect the diversity within its membership and acknowledge those with proven track records, writes Clive Booth There is one sure way to success for the Institute for Learning and...

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  4. Abolishing fees in Scotland will add to

    Only after the risk of alienating voters has passed have Scotland's Labour politicians and university leaders begun to point out the disadvantages of abolishing tuition fees. There are the anomalies...

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  5. Read with open mind

    Roy Harris is entitled to his idiosyncratic view of Gerry Altmann's The Ascent of Babel ("Babel and psychobabble", THES, May 7). However, his attack on psycholinguistics is almost incomprehensible...

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  6. Don't abandon Europe

    My best information is that Thames Valley University intends to close its degree course in European studies and invite the European studies staff to accept voluntary redundancy. If it should be the...

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  7. Respect minority languages

    It was with great sadness and dismay that I read Christie Davies's Soapbox article ("Why I believe the Welsh Assembly should not compel students to be taught in Welsh", THES, April 30). One of the...

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  8. Respect minority languages

    The views expressed by Christie Davies are offensive in the extreme. Any spread of the Welsh language that is likely to be "pushed for" is only reinstating the language in areas where it was spoken...

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  9. In support of all staff

    I am writing to complain about your confusing and inaccurate reporting of the Unison Higher Education Conference ("Unison gears up for strikes", THES, May 7). To clear up any doubts, an emergency...

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  10. In support of all staff

    The motion rejected by the Unison Higher Education Conference delegates called for an immediate ballot with a recommendation to reject the offer and to consult and cooperate with other unions in...

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  11. In support of all staff

    Phil Race ("Make a friend of a paperbin", THES, April 30) had much to offer, but I take exception to his academic bias. As an administrator, I can give academics tips on cutting stress that do not...

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  12. Confused complaint

    The article "Blunkett rejects CVCP complaint" (THES, May 7) is out of date and linguistically confused. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals neither "pleaded" with, nor "complained" to...

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  13. Which came first?

    In "Heavy metal for the data age" (THES, April 30), I was interested to read: "Stephen Quigley celebrates the creation of the first working stored program computer". Cambridge University is...

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  14. Making deals in Holyrood

    Will (and should) tuition fees for Scottish students be abolished? Three key players give their views. Malcolm Dickson Last week's historic elections to Scotland's first parliament in 300 years...

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