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  3. Laurie Taylor Column

    "No stars for RAE funding change", THES , May 9. Crikey. Have you seen this letter in The THES from half the RAE panel chairs? Strong stuff. They're actually threatening to have nothing to do with...

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  4. Alan Ryan

    The professionalism of US admissions offices is a myth - what they do well is balance the demands of their many constituencies The spring mating rituals have just about come to an end, and students...

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  6. The class assassin

    Richard Pipes revealed a mild-mannered US maths professor as a former Russian revolutionary who betrayed his comrades then killed his boss In the autumn of 1897, a recent Johns Hopkins University PhD...

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  7. Did the Oxford blues turn red?

    Elite universities were fertile ground for recruiters to the communist cause in the 1930s. But, asks Phil Baty, did the Soviets ever manage to establish a spy ring in Oxford that came close to the...

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  8. People's paradise, scholars' purgatory

    In North Korea, students and academics struggle with limited resources, hunger, cold and the demands of a totalitarian state. But, says Jim Hoare, many remain curious and upbeat. Conventional...

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  9. 'Uterine fury' - now sold in chemists

    Whereas women today worry about feeling sexy enough, their Victorian sisters were warned against 'wanton feelings' and doctors treated the clitoris as 'the source of evil'. Linda Vergnani reports....

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  10. The man who moved Mt Sinai

    By subjecting the Bible to the academic rigour that has made him one of the UK's leading materials scientists, Colin Humphreys replotted the route of Exodus. He tells Harriet Swain what happens when...

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  11. Economics gives a good return 1

    Economics is not as depressing as Alan Shipman makes out ("Dismal return of micro-men", THES, May 2). He argues that economics is too narrow and weighed down by mathematics and statistics. As someone...

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  12. Economics gives a good return 2

    Alan Shipman's attack on "mainstream" economics is outdated, misguided and wrong. If the nature of the discipline is causing a decline in take-up at A or PhD level, how does Shipman explain the...

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  13. Stiff standards

    The report "Forensic courses cut open for analysis" ( THES, May 2) gives the impression that forensic science courses have arisen as a result of failing chemistry/physics provision rather than...

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  14. Wealth of errors

    Presumably, there were reality checks elsewhere in the Oxford Student Union report on college provision and wealth ("Oxford inequalities exposed", THES, May 2). Here are three that were not...

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  15. A leg to stand on

    Panel chairs are right to complain ("RAE chairs: 'we'll pull out", Letters, THES, May 2) about the injustice of the invention of a 5** grade in the research assessment exercise and its possible...

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