Uncle Sam is innocent
To blame America for all the ills of modern culture is incredibly naive, writes Cheryl Hudson. In the two years since September 11 2001, there has been much ink spilt about the causes and...
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The toughest job in Britain?
Why is it so difficult to find a great v-c? Look at the job description, writes Stephen Watson, and it's no mystery. The issue of how universities should be led and managed as they evolve into...
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Telling the tale sparks insight
Students' understanding of a subject cannot come from textbooks alone, argues Michael Hyland. A good lower-second essay used to be one in which a student presented all the facts while an upper-second...
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Fellows: on the front line
Pat Leon asks a winner of one of this year's national teaching fellowships how she manages. Name: Barbara Graziosi. Age: 31. Job: Lecturer in classics. Salary: £24,121 Qualifications: BA in literae...
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Today's news
Students no longer need to fear the third degree The third-class degree, once a badge of honour for gentleman scholars, is vanishing from universities. Figures released by Cambridge University showed...
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Wise owls help roos write
Winnie-the-Pooh is supporting a project in which professional writers give students personal tuition to improve their skills. Terry Philpot reports. The Royal Literary Fund, founded in 1799 for the...
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A whore's ransom
The 19th-century courtesan Harriette Wilson revised her memoirs depending on which of her aristocratic lovers paid for her discretion. That flexibility with the truth presented her biographer,...
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When is a call for alms a call to arms?
Muslim charities provide extensive humanitarian aid but, writes Jonathan Benthall, critics accuse some of straying into terrorist territory. Birmingham-based Islamic Relief was one of the few aid...
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From first bud, drug ban was a real hash
International treaties to curb cannabis trade and use have been built on the foundations of shaky science and imperial politics, writes James Mills. As British doctors prepare to prescribe a new...
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Bite-sized taster that leads up to full course
More and more academics spend the holiday period running projects to widen participation. Chris Bunting looks at the success of these schemes in the latest in our summer series. Robert Stewart was 17...
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Horizontal perfidy and the French
Shorn Women
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book about Paris by a Welsh Creole: "'Quite like old times,' the room says. 'Yes?' No?'" * Entries,...
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Mastery of the dainty ankled mistress
Thatcher, Politics and Fantasy
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Tales to bust taboos
Dilemmas of Desire
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Attitudes and aptitudes
Gender Studies - Sexuality and Society - Sex and Gender