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  1. Laurie Taylor

    Ploumanack BRITTANY Hello Maureen! Yes, it's Julie Samson. Bet you didn't expect to hear from me so soon after degree day! Both mum and dad came in the end and dad said it was one of the proudest...

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  2. Leader: Mickey Mouse is a complex beast

    At long last someone has had the courage to identify some "Mickey Mouse" courses. It might have been stretching a point to describe the Conservatives' list of unlikely sounding degrees as research,...

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  3. Leader: A-level standards vary

    A week on from results day, arguments are still raging about whether some A levels are easier than others. Although ministers apparently feel honour-bound to insist that they are all equally...

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  4. An East Coast visionary with a bit of an image problem

    For Susan Sontag, being a writer gives her permission to interrogate the world, but perversely in her critique of photography she accepts too much and asks too little, argues Mary-Ann Kennedy. It is...

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  5. Goodbye to Easy Street

    The once idle summer months are now awash with conferences, research and red tape, says Michael Kelly in the first of a series on how university staff spend their summer 'holidays'. A former...

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  6. Darkness in the Catholic confessional

    Sexual scandal has rocked the Roman Catholic church but little attention has been given to the true nature of clergy abuse, writes Natasha Gilbert. John J. Geoghan took up his last post as an active...

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  7. 'Kicking around a cancer patient...'

    ...That's how we are treating the the reefs and seas, says one expert on coral bleaching. Linda Vergnani reports on scientists' alarm about the state of our oceans. Just off Heron Island, Australia,...

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  8. The rich, the poor, the thick and thin

    Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. If a computer program were asked to isolate...

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  9. Triple helix holds the key to win, win, win situation

    Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. European academia has much work to do to...

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  10. Student selection and choice 1

    It is a shame that David Mycock, a student at Derby College, was put off applying for Oxbridge by what he saw as the "elitist" attitude of recruiters at a Manchester fair ("I've struck elitist...

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  11. Student selection and choice 2

    Psychology must not be dragged down the road of media studies by detractors of vocational choice. According to the latest What Graduates do? report, 64.7 per cent of psychology graduates are employed...

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  12. Student selection and choice 3

    Knowing students' A-level results before selection could intrude into our complacency (Leader, THES , August 15). What if we have to define what is special about educating undergraduates to identify...

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  13. Odd.job@ox

    You published a curious university advert for a "director of studies" who is not required to teach (or research), or ever to have done so ( THES , August 8). It could be Poppleton University, but it...

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  14. Asian history ignored

    Despite our long colonial and trading history, the UK has never had a national plan for teaching Asian languages and cultures, a proper knowledge of which is vital now more than ever to our economy...

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  15. False pretences

    Joanna Swann (Letters, THES , August 1) implies that Karl Popper originated the theory that science is, or should be, distinguished from non-science by the criterion of falsification. Popper claimed...

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