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  3. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about an abduction: "Subsidising public transport had long been associated in the minds of...

    #Books

  7. 'Open access' for the rich only

    The claim that "open-access" journals will replace the traditional subscription model and open up access to research is wrong ("Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas", THES , January 2). Despite...

    #Letters

  8. 'Open access' for the rich only

    The article "Call to put research free on websites" ( THES , Dec 19/26) is welcome, but it repeated the most frequent misunderstanding of open-access self-archiving - a persistent error that keeps...

    #Letters

  9. Patronising the public

    While I agree with Lord Winston's message to open an informed dialogue between scientists and the public ("The public pay, so give them their say", THES , January 2), the examples he chooses to...

    #Letters

  10. Patronising the public

    Bill Durodié is right to say there is little scientific evidence to indicate that the MMR vaccine causes autism (Letters, THES , January 2). But most parents are not scientists with specialist...

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  11. Trouble at the top?

    So the University of Luton plans to make a further 50 lecturers redundant ("Redundancy drive aims to free up cash at Luton", THES , January 2). This means that it will have shed a total of nearly 200...

    #Letters

  12. Burning not borscht

    Brendan Simms writes in his review of A Century of Genocide that genocide "is as authentically European as croissants, borscht or dumplings" (Books, THES , January 2). He cannot be accused of...

    #Letters

  13. World-class snobs

    Many of us across the university sector feel that the recent extensive exposure given to the Russell Group is misguided and, frankly, boring. This self-selecting lobby of so-called "top" universities...

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  14. (Dis)honour 1

    I note the list of those in higher education who received New Year gongs, and your shortlist of those who perhaps should have but did not (News, THES , January 2). Where, however, was the list of...

    #Letters

  15. (Dis)honour 2

    Can you please reassure your readers that the only reason for the omission of my name and photograph from the list you published last week of those in higher education whose names were omitted from...

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