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  1. Not only students get a raw deal 3

    Boris Johnson's view of the student's lot is limited by out-of-date assumptions, in particular about the use (and abuse) of the web. How can he suggest that personal interactions with tutors are...

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  2. Expert concern 1

    Sir Roy Meadow gave evidence in the murder trial of Sally Clark that the General Medical Council found to be erroneous and misleading. The Court of Appeal criticised the statistical evidence and said...

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  3. Expert concern 2

    Do Sir Roy Meadow or David Southall realise the suffering that was imposed on those women incorrectly sentenced to life imprisonment on an opinion Meadow gave as a proven fact in a court of law? Most...

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  4. Expert concern 3

    The judgment by Mr Justice Collins in the Meadow case has enormous implications for the law and practice of professional regulation. Forensic practitioners giving evidence in good faith are now...

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  5. Who's checking who?

    One thing puzzles me about the dispute involving Procter and Gamble (P&G) and researchers at Sheffield University. According to the International Conference on Harmonisation guideline for...

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  6. Researchers ignored

    Richard Austen-Baker's claims (Letters, February 24) that school-leavers have literacy problems as a result of the influence of "educationists" on the Government and school system are laughable....

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  7. Brains not bricks

    The feature on architecture on campuses ("Let's play nicely together, shall we?", February 24), revealed the flaw in the popular idea that the building of so-called "creativity-enhancing"...

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  8. Generation games 1

    "Recruiting drive may gobble up pay cash" (February 24) shows that academic recruitment is skewed towards the senior grades to boost institutions' showing in the research assessment exercise. But the...

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  9. Feminism isn't ready to be swept under the carpet

    To mark International Women's Day, Ann Oakley explores the changing face of gender studies and why women still wear the pinny in most houses It is easy to forget that in the 1960s we lacked a...

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  10. Where 'hello, baby' doesn't mean 'bye bye tenure'

    The US boasts some unlikely champions of family-friendly policies, say Stephen Phillips and Mandy Garner Last week, Lawrence Summers resigned as Harvard University president days before a second vote...

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  11. Deeply disillusioned but not without hope

    Stuart Hall says the points of reference that organised his political world are gone. Still, Laurie Taylor finds that the cultural theorist has not lost his fire When people heard I'd be meeting...

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  12. Imparting wisdom via a wet sponge

    If bird flu broke out, would face-to-face teaching be viable? Timothy Hamlett recalls sticky times in a Sars-ridden city Are you wondering what an epidemic of bird flu in a major city might look like...

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  13. Campus curiosities 19 Goldsmiths' bathhouse

    Laurie Grove baths in New Cross was built as part of a Victorian municipal drive to civilise the "great unwashed" of industrial south London. Now the main pool is filled with art students. The baths...

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  14. Cracking the identity code with a humble fried egg

    Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Harriet Swain asks the experts what ingredients make up 'Britishness' and gets some mouthwatering answers When Chancellor...

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  15. Conference watch

    * "Shopping is becoming more than just leisure, it is becoming cultural," says Jessica Bush of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. She is giving a paper at the Commerce and Fashion 1500-...

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