Red tape dashes chances
Hundreds of school and college leavers expecting to gain new vocational A levels have had their hopes of a place in higher education dashed by red tape. Admissions chiefs said this week they were "...
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Rejected candidate loses court bid for place
University medical schools have escaped being forced to narrow their entry criteria following a court ruling this week. Conor O'Reilly, an academically qualified teenager who was rejected by Glasgow...
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A secular version of the soul
The DNA Mystique
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Big brother's shady son
The Secret State
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Charge of the slight brigade
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army
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Humpty-Dumpty Hibernianism
Heathcliff and The Great Hunger
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Kultur v. politique
German Ideology
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Princely state full of paupers' graves
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute
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Pukka purveyors of martial arts
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
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The speech of pariahs
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
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Rangoon rap
Burmese
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a 20th-century writer interested in a degree of sexual latitude: "Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they...
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Summer of discontent
A third semester would reduce choice and damage the quality of higher education, argues Ann Cotterrell. Some institutions are to receive funds to cover the set-up costs of a teaching semester in the...
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Hath not a drama teacher eyes?
Peter Cox argues (THES, August 11) "the pursuit of educational drama . . . by enthusiasts has been largely responsible for drama being excluded from the National Curriculum as a subject in its own...
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Western lefties baulk at new mind set required
The answers to Perspective's questions (THES, August 4) reveal another difference between pre-war appeasement and today's Balkan crisis. In the late 1930s, European liberal and left-thinking circles...