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  1. Teaching: On the front line

    What is your experience of teaching? Name : David McAlpine. Age: 36. Job: Reader in auditory neuroscience, University College London. Salary : About £38,000 plus the risible London weighting....

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  2. Today's news

    Student offers 'should recognise easy A levels' Top grades in some A-level subjects are easier to achieve than in others and universities should take this into account when making offers to students...

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  5. Bookmakers cut odds on scientific breakthroughs

    Brussels, 02 Sep 2004 Bookmakers in the UK are cutting the odds on scientific breakthroughs, believing that the chances of remarkable discoveries being made before 2010 are increasing. The first...

  9. There's a Scot, an Irishman, and a man who is confused...

    Britain is an exception to the common nationalist belief that every nation should constitute a state and that a state is weaker if it is multinational (as J. S. Mill said in his famous debate with...

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  10. We love a drop of sherry, but can't take the strong stuff

    In England, the Church of England is established by law as the national church, and though there is no established church in Wales or Scotland, the Crown is legally bound to protect the position of...

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  11. What the Muslims can learn from Jews

    Muslims are not alone in facing the pressures of finding a balance between national identity and diasporic ambitions. Over the past year, the vision of multicultural Britain that held sway for much...

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  12. Defined by some distinctly hyphenated Britishness

    Rumours of the death of multiculturalism are exaggerated and can alienate the very communities that must be brought into the mainstream. In the 1950s, Britain's non-white ethnic minorities...

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  13. It's falling apart at the seams

    Britain has lost its sense of identity, argues Keith Hart, who predicts that this country is on its last legs. Western values have officially remained more or less the same since the liberal...

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  14. Special - What it means to be British

    </a>      The Times Higher invited five academics to comment on what it means to be British. Together, they ponder a very English identity crisis and chart the decline of formal...

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