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Lecturers aid students in ‘School of the Damned’

Lecturers aid students in ‘School of the Damned’

Western universities don’t expect new emir to shake up status quo
I was interested to see that Open University researchers are trying to map every tree in the UK (Campus round-up, June). The problem is, of course, that they won’t see the wood.Michael...
There is growing evidence that marijuana may be helpful in the treatment of chronic pain, so I thought for a moment that approaching old age was about to become a little more pleasant when I read of...
For two reasons, John Linfoot’s letter on “costing” student contact time made me smile (“Contact lenses”, Letters, 4 July). On the one hand, his figures are awry: the figure of 300 notional “contact...
Even as a mere master’s student at St Anne’s College, Oxford, I was astounded by the antiquated and conflicting claims made by Anthony Rodriguez (Letters, June).First he refers to the “bizarre ordeal...
Wes Streeting is right that our universities must be places of empowerment and support for all students (“Leaders show how to build gay-friendly campus”, News, June). An interesting area is how they...

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Ursula King hails a committed effort to advance interfaith relations

A rogue’s gallery stopped the ‘crippler’, but for how long? asks Helen Bynum

Fred Inglis welcomes fresh currents of political resistance

Alec Ryrie on an intriguing book that doesn’t do what it says on the tin

Caroline Osella considers a slice of the subcontinent at the heart of the Gulf

Ulrike Zitzlsperger on the changing nature of heritage and the consequent effects on national identities in European nations

Benson P. H. Lau on a study of Modern architect Le Corbusier’s religious thinking and architecture