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  1. A right to be Mr and Mrs

    The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that a British transsexual can marry. Adam James spoke to Stephen Whittle, the lecturer fighting for UK transsexual rights Transsexual people have...

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  2. Challenge to age-old conviction

    Australia was settled as a penal colony, right? Ex-policeman Dan Foley disagrees, arguing that deportees were in fact the victims of a far more ambitious scheme. Caroline Davis reports. Paddington...

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  3. Not so jolly hockey sticks

    The bias towards the masculine displays of competition, strength and speed in the PE curriculum is alienating girls, Jim Denison writes. From disheartened sideline spectators - or worse, uninvited...

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  4. Helping Kyrgyzstan make the news

    Angela Thomae reports on a project by a British university that aims to help would-be journalists in a former Soviet republic distinguish opinions from facts. "Sorry, where did you say?" I asked my...

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  5. Spinning yarns with silk road storytellers

    Central Asia has a huge hunger for cultural expression and exchange. The UK should do more to satisfy it, says Sally Pomme Clayton. On tour in April with the British Council Literature Department to...

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  6. The ABCs of HIV/Aids

    Fran Balkwill does not let her 'day job' leading cancer research keep her from her passion - conveying the stories of science to children. She spoke to Claire Sanders. For Fran Balkwill, a prominent...

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  7. Moral? Maybe. Double edged? No doubt

    The sacking of two Israeli scholars from the boards of journals as part of an academic boycott highlights the question of whether such actions work and whether they do more harm than good. Caroline...

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  8. Pencil point blunted

    I read "Is your career in the can?" ( THES , July 5) with interest, particularly as it highlighted the achievements of London Institute students. But the conclusion mentioned the institute's improved...

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  9. Savage closure

    We the undersigned write in protest at the University of Birmingham's recent decision to close the department of cultural studies. It is internationally acknowledged that the department has been a...

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  10. Unjustified rebuke

    I supervised Dennis Foster's part-time PhD thesis studies from October 1997 until July 1999 (Whistleblowers, THES , July 12). Dr Foster failed his PhD at Exeter University, but subsequently achieved...

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  11. Perfectly formed

    My university strongly refutes the suggestion that its redundancy committee is "improperly formed" (For the record, THES , July 12). Two members of academic staff sit on it, as our statutes require....

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  12. No hurdle for LSC

    The article "Post-16 reform hits new hurdle" ( THES , July 12) was so wide of the mark as to require correction. It claimed that "weak local management" in our 47 local learning and skills councils...

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  13. Deadly data (1)

    Widening participation means attracting students who are bright but may be ill prepared. Foundation programmes can help but are under threat because of the way the Higher Education Funding Council...

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  14. Deadly data (2)

    London Guildhall University writes off student debt only when it has exhausted all avenues for collection ("'No fee, no degree' threat", THES , July 5). Withholding certificates or graduation...

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  15. Poor assessment

    Frank Furedi's criticism of our research on academic assessment practice (Why I..., THES , July 5) misses a fundamental point: students expect a level of fairness and parity in the assessment of...

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