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  1. First Impressions competition: 21 August 2008

    This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"Psychics can see the color of time it's...

    #Books

  2. Personal Development Office

    Hello Everybody, Jennifer Doubleday here!I'm saying who I am because my tutor on this residential Personal Development Weekend says that knowing who you are is the first step on the path to self-...

    #Laurie

  3. Offers we can't refuse

    Sally Feldman on the deals, desperation and bottom-line realities of clearing

    #Columnists
    #Opinion
    #Sally Feldman

  5. J.D. (John) Marshall, 1919-2008.

    J.D. (John) Marshall, 1919-2008.A "hardy frontiersman" of academia who developed a passion for regional history while based in Cumbria as a Second World War conscientious objector has died.J.D. (John...

    #People

  6. Big questions unasked in every medium

    Instead of "Grappling with the digital divide" (14 August), we have the usual mishmash of, on the one hand, academics who should know better, lamenting their incapacity to catch up with e-literate...

    #Letters

  7. Me thinks 1

    I was struck by the very great difference in the standard of the two letters (Letters, 14 August) you published last week in response to my article on variant spelling ("Just spell it like it is", 7...

    #Letters

  8. Me thinks 2

    Ken Smith advocates accepting common spelling errors by undergraduates. Will they have to remember lists of permitted words to misspell? If one wishes to take the permissive route, why not also...

    #Letters

  9. US joins the club

    The interest that United States higher education is taking in the Bologna Process ("America lacks the Bolognese recipe for true harmonisation", 14 August) is increasing.Academics and funding...

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  10. Doctorate is just the start

    The debate on the qualities and respective merits of a traditional PhD versus a taught doctorate will probably rage long ("Scholars remain unconvinced about the value of professional doctorates", 14...

    #Letters

  11. Get back to your day job

    I thought that the point of writing outside your area of expertise was to wonder at new intellectual discoveries and not to repeat lazy innuendo and borderline-racist cliches the way Terence Kealey...

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  12. Reconsideration under way

    Your article about events surrounding The Open University's policy on the age of retirement of associate lecturers is misleading ("Disciplinary action taken after public airing of staff survey...

    #Letters

  13. Critics do offer alternatives

    Paul Temple (Letters, 14 August) complains that "anonymous critics" avoid the hard work of presenting a serious critique of the policies and processes of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and fail...

    #Letters

  14. Don't scrap Orsas - save it

    At a time of increasing international competition to capture the best young researchers, the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to dispense with the Overseas Research...

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  15. Engineers are creative too

    I was disappointed to see Times Higher Education associating itself with the tired old misconception about "traditionally non-creative industries such as engineering" ("Spanners in the art works", 14...

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