Becoming human
The Monkey in the Mirror
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Tea and a constitutional with the founding fathers
America - Liberty, Equality, Power - The American Past - Voices of the American Past, Volumes 1 and 2
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What grey days if Edward had lived
The Tudors
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A lifelong dance with cloven hoof
Interesting Times
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Divisions of massed facts pitted against bold raiders
The Great World War 1914-45, Volume 2 - The First World War, Volume 1 - The Myth of the Great War
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From the Sultanate to Silicon Bangalore
A Concise History of India
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Siting the Palatine by the Potomac
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Hairs and graces: in pursuit of the hirsute
Paulinus Noster
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Degrees are not their business 1
If it is true that private companies are to be given degree-awarding powers so as to promote competition in higher education ("Go-ahead for corporate degrees", THES , November 29), then three issues...
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Degrees are not their business 2
I see that prominent free-marketeer James Tooley is congratulating new Labour for "thinking the unthinkable" with plans to, in effect, privatise the authority to award degrees. One thing puzzles me...
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Proud and pumped up
As someone who teaches and researches in pure biochemistry and sports and exercise science, I am used to my work in the latter area being trivialised by my more traditional colleagues. Still, now...
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Truth with a capital T
As is shown by Ray Monk's review of Bernard Williams's Truth and Truthfulness ("Up against a tide of denial", THES , November 29), academic philosophers are once again busy fabricating a muddle about...
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Equality costs
The Greenfield report on getting more women into science ( THES , November 29) makes a number of costly recommendations. Laudable though they would be in a well-funded system, as things stand they...
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Parental wealth
Your leader "Students must be convinced of a degree's value" ( THES , November 29) gets straight to the heart of the matter: "parental income, rather than graduate prospects, determines whether and...
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Regional clarification
Your report on Partnerships for Progression (P4P) ("Meet target or lose cash, report warns", THES , November 29) suggested that the Higher Education Funding Council for England would withdraw funds...