Sutton and Oxford 1
Alan Ryan misinterprets a number of key findings of Sutton Trust research (Opinion, 26 October). A report by the trust did identify 3,000 state school students who each year have the grades to enter...
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Sutton and Oxford 2
One of the occupational hazards of being a politician is that one is frequently accused of holding opinions one has never expressed. It does not feel any better to be accused by an eminent academic...
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Sutton and Oxford 3
Contrary to your summary of my views, I have never "defended" Oxbridge admissions ("Oxbridge targets 'cannot be met': Ryan", October 26). Tutors spend immense amounts of time and effort making fine...
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'The fact is, marketing won't let us off ...'
It was bad enough, says John Brinnamoor, going to an alumni reunion. How much worse, he then discovered, to have to organise one
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Back to the future
The early part of the 20th century witnessed an explosion of avant- garde art that threw off the shackles of the past to embrace the dynamism and challenge of the modern age. Stephen Bury revisits an...
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Who do they think we are?
What does 'Britishness' mean to people living in former colonies and to migrants newly arrived in the UK? Vron Ware decided to find out. The concept of national identity is in crisis. Despite Gordon...
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Matters of life and death
The Death of Socrates - Socrates
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Poetry, insults and disdain
Ezra Pound
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Notes of terror amid global conflict
Music in the Post-9/11 World
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A friend of il maestro offers light but not warmth
Federico Fellini
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The truth behind the trope
Figuratively Speaking
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentences, is from a dark tale of food, travel and murder: "This is not a conventional cookbook. Though I should...
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Concepts where there are none
The Origins of Meaning
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Injecting enterprise into the old monastic vision
University Dynamics and European Integration
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It doesn't pay to let the facts obscure the way
The Story Is True