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  1. The price of 21st-century success

    The Cubie report on student finance in Scotland makes a fitting end to the century and the millennium. Cubie's recommendations, along with the vice-chancellors' recent bid for future funding, present...

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  2. In brief

    You seem to relish stigmatising Islam as a repressive religion with Muslims as an intolerant bunch of tyrants and freaks. More recently, your front page carried a rather loaded title: "Poor Pakistan...

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  3. Brought to book

    One result of increasing penury in our crumbling public library system has been unrestricted rises in charges for book reservations. Once pegged at the cost of a second-class stamp they now vary...

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  4. Be wary of new degree

    Your story on the associate degree model ("New Labour, new year, new degree", THES, December 10) was unclear. In the United States the typical undergraduate degree equates to a four-year full-time...

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  5. In brief

    So Peter Scott, v-c of Kingston University, thinks "minority" issues such as "black and gay identities" are "particularly American preoccupations" that are not "important" in British universities ("...

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  6. Imperial vs imperious

    I have been applying to study electrical/information systems engineering. I have offers from Imperial College (AAA) and York (ABB), my second and third choices, as well as from other universities I...

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  7. 'Helpful' QAA report

    According to you (THES, 10 December) we are "in hot water" following receipt of our Quality Assurance Agency audit report. Rather than waxing indignant about comments regarding our association with...

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  9. First impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author obsessed with millennia: " The drought has lasted now for ten million years, and the...

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  15. Awe, wonder and gene committees

    How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe - The Spirit in the Gene - A Walk Through Time

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