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  1. Poisoned ink

    Zhores Medvedev reports on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the bulk of Stalin's personal archive. This year academics in both East and West have been able to take advantage of several...

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  2. Final frontiers

    Science has obscured the once clear line between life and death and it is time our ethics developed in response, argues Peter Singer. After ruling our thoughts and our decisions about life and death...

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  3. A fine old mess we've got into

    The clearing season is moving into full swing. A-level results are out, people are looking for places. Institutions have geared themselves up for clearing - additional phone lines are staffed;...

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  4. Don's Diary

    Monday. At Mariry. At 4.30 am the cockerels go off. By six the grey light grows through heavy mist. Twittering finches in the secondary growth nearby, an Amazonian thrush singing further back in the...

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  5. System due for change

    Since the second world war, higher education has evolved in three distinct phases - expansion, democratisation and, currently, quality control. But Germany is among the last to enter the quality...

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  6. Amazement at pseudo avenues for advancements

    Opinion (THES, August 4) from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, identifies particular "avenues for advancement", the development of new concepts and capabilities, fusion of...

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  7. Swerve theory for herds

    Re academic freedom (THES, July 21, 28, August 11): in evaluating a work of social or political theory one may choose to examine its coherence or, alternatively, its "relevance". British academics...

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  8. Trauma of the 3am bid for a university place

    There must be a better entrance system, says concerned parent Brian Everett. I am a parent of a teenager whose results came yesterday. For many A-level students August 17 will have brought good news...

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  9. It's a conspiracy of sniggers

    I see you have decided once again to entertain readers with the "amusing" exam howlers certain academics seem to regard it as their duty to collect. However, given that many errors are due to the...

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  10. A library of slim volumes with a broad scope

    Andrew Marvell - Joseph Conrad - Doris Lessing - William Hazlitt. Introduction by Michael Foot - John Clare - William Golding - Ian McEwan - Walter Pater - Angela Carter - The Sensation Novel - John...

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