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  1. Uprooting red daffodils

    Anita Roy talks to professor of English, Meenakshi Mukherjee (right) about her iconoclastic approach to not-so-sacred texts. Owls are traditionally associated with wisdom in the west. In Hindu...

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  2. Hate couture

    Stella Hughes reports on the unpleasant experiences of an academic who chose to study French skinheads. French skinheads came under the spotlight last month when a young Moroccan strolling along the...

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  3. Man: the story so far

    Are humans different from animals in degree or in kind? Tim Ingold argues that the new Darwinism, far from offering a solution, is riddled with contradictions. Do human beings differ from other...

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  4. Jeux sans frontieres

    This week The THES debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...

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  5. The parts league tables do not reach

    I read with interest the university league tables (THES, May 19) There are many issues surrounding the formulation and presentation of league tables for universities but one in particular concerns me...

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  6. A Victorian plot to drive down wages

    Kathryn Ecclestone's letter (THES, May 26) is a welcome, commonsense response to the wilder advocates of "NVQs for everything" but she holds back from the deserved total condemnation of the idea....

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  7. Don's Diary

    THURSDAY. Early morning flight to Zurich delayed on the tarmac at Heathrow by "air traffic problems". Contemplate receding prospect of breakfast. Start reading book proofs which arrived yesterday....

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  8. Minds hot and cross over quality

    Sometimes a vigorous public disagreement can have a cathartic effect. Hopefully this will be the outcome of the somewhat fraught exchanges on the future of quality assurance which took place at the...

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  9. Careers survey founded on wrong criteria

    In response to your article "Graduates are ill-prepared for the jobs market" (THES, May 19), it may interest your readers to know that at the University of Sunderland we have responded to these...

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  10. Careers survey founded on wrong criteria

    The results of the UK Graduate Careers Survey 1995 compiled by High Fliers' Research recruitment consultants (THES, May 19) were not very impressive. First, there is no indication as to why the...

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  11. New university plan lives

    Last week's news of the change of the academic partner for the University of Lincolnshire Project brings a guarantee of success. Under the previous model, with Nottingham Trent University, the...

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  12. New university plan lives

    Contrary to the assertion in Alison Utley's article on the front page last week (THES, May 26) plans for an independent University of Lincolnshire have not been scrapped. They have been given a new...

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  13. Rules of game lead to strikes

    By discussing the dispute between college lecturers and their employers as a kind of poker game played by Natfhe and the Colleges Employers Forum, your leading article (THES, May 26) misses the...

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  14. Teachers and petting do mix

    Moves to 'protect' students from sexual relationships with their tutors are patronising and unnecessary, warns Jennie Bristow. The idea that relationships between lecturers and students are a problem...

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  15. More money must be found

    Expansion without more funding must stop now, says Ann Cotterrell. Quality is suffering through lack of funding. Lecturers are trying to maintain quality in the face of diminishing resources. It is...

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