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  3. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a prize-winning South African novelist: " For a man of his age, 52, divorced, he has, to his...

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  4. Laurie Taylor column

    All rise for the vice-chancellor. Thank you, bursar. As you will know, this emergency meeting of senate has been called to deal with our recruitment crisis. Despite everyone's best efforts, there is...

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  5. Letter: Monster spends

    As promised on your front page, James Lovelock's review of The Quest for Mars (Books, THES, February 2) did slay some monster myths about Mars. But I would be sad if it spawned a new myth. Lovelock...

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  6. Letter: RAE is failing us

    While I agree that excellence in research comes through diversity (Research, THES, February 2), another factor is equality of opportunity for emerging subjects. Unfortunately it looks as though the...

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  7. Letter: Rude awakening

    Over recent months I, too, have received a number of emails from ac.uk addresses - among them, Portsmouth, Southampton and Huddersfield - inviting me to subscribe to pornographic sites or to clear my...

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  8. Letter: Voyage of rediscovery

    I am mildly amused that Denmark is the latest country to discover that counting research publications devalues research ("Re-user friendly data", THES, January 26). The same discovery was made by the...

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  9. Letter: Luton qualification

    The quotes attributed to me on the front page last week ("Cuts looming as students fail to sign up", THES, February 2) require qualification as to their accuracy and legitimacy. I was invited to...

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  10. Letter: Impoverishment of student life

    I am a graduate in economics, having finished my studies last summer. I could identify with many issues raised in your story ("MPs hear harsh loans truth", THES, February 2), but I feel you have only...

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  11. Letter: Impoverishment of student life (2)

    German foreign minister Joscka Fischer, icon of the peaceful 1970s student protests, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP for the French Greens, are caught up in controversy about the "wild days" of student...

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  12. Letter: Impoverishment of student life

    Young people are fortunately cleverer than government or Universities UK give them credit for. Many surveys demonstrate that employers demand mainly generic transferable skills, which can be...

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  13. Letter: DNA considerations

    Events at Alder Hey Hospital have highlighted the deficiencies in the Human Tissue Act 1961 and in the oversight mechanisms for the collection of tissue and organs for medical research. Health...

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  14. Letter: It's all Thatcher's fault

    I agree that we will have to establish whether HE institutes furnish qualifications or teach students to think ("Why I..., THES, January 26). I blame Thatcherite culture for this. In 1995 at King...

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  15. Leader: Lessons in regeneration from Birmingham, AL

    Birmingham, Alabama, is, by its own admission, not the likeliest of venues for full membership of the US research elite. But from a standing start in the 1960s, its university has become a...

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