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The lesser spotted Palearctic guide
BWP Update: The Journal of the Birds of the Western Palearctic
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What happened to scientists' academic freedom?
When one academic challenged the orthodoxy on Aids, he was spurned by his peers;when another enraged the public with racial theories, he was allowed to continue in his work. Next week, in a special...
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Should freedom cover racial science?
The scientific study of race, says Professor Jean-Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario, is proscribed by a "taboo" that has "no parallel I not the Inquisition, not Stalin, not Hitler...
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The great Aids pandemic
Aids entered the medical domain quietly in 1981 with a report in Los Angeles of five cases of severe pneumonia caused by a parasite, Pneuocystis carinii, common in animals but uncommon in man. All...
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Rough-hewn chairs of history
Furniture built of scrap and left to rot is now sought by auction houses and pored over by academics. Bill Cotton, the man responsible, sits down with Kate Worsley. Do you care enough about your...
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A club is only as good as the members it attracts
The ILT must reflect the diversity within its membership and acknowledge those with proven track records, writes Clive Booth There is one sure way to success for the Institute for Learning and...
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Abolishing fees in Scotland will add to
Only after the risk of alienating voters has passed have Scotland's Labour politicians and university leaders begun to point out the disadvantages of abolishing tuition fees. There are the anomalies...
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Read with open mind
Roy Harris is entitled to his idiosyncratic view of Gerry Altmann's The Ascent of Babel ("Babel and psychobabble", THES, May 7). However, his attack on psycholinguistics is almost incomprehensible...
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Don't abandon Europe
My best information is that Thames Valley University intends to close its degree course in European studies and invite the European studies staff to accept voluntary redundancy. If it should be the...
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Respect minority languages
It was with great sadness and dismay that I read Christie Davies's Soapbox article ("Why I believe the Welsh Assembly should not compel students to be taught in Welsh", THES, April 30). One of the...
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Respect minority languages
The views expressed by Christie Davies are offensive in the extreme. Any spread of the Welsh language that is likely to be "pushed for" is only reinstating the language in areas where it was spoken...
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In support of all staff
I am writing to complain about your confusing and inaccurate reporting of the Unison Higher Education Conference ("Unison gears up for strikes", THES, May 7). To clear up any doubts, an emergency...
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In support of all staff
The motion rejected by the Unison Higher Education Conference delegates called for an immediate ballot with a recommendation to reject the offer and to consult and cooperate with other unions in...
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In support of all staff
Phil Race ("Make a friend of a paperbin", THES, April 30) had much to offer, but I take exception to his academic bias. As an administrator, I can give academics tips on cutting stress that do not...