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  1. More roadblock than roadmap 3

    Surely the Association of University Teachers should boycott Palestinian universities, because they sponsor and incite hate and terror, and Arab academics coming from countries that have largely...

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  2. More roadblock than roadmap 4

    I'm glad the AUT is reconsidering its boycott of Israeli universities. But it comes too late for me. After almost 20 years' membership I resigned two years ago because the union was devoting more...

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  3. More roadblock than roadmap 5

    Although I can understand the AUT's frustrations over Israel, we ought not to attack fellow academics wherever they are - Israel, Zimbabwe, the US, North Korea or Iran - but by contact and example...

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  4. More roadblock than roadmap 6

    Stephen Howe (Features, May 6) believes that the activities of which Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities stand accused are far too complicated for the AUT conference to judge. This kind of argument is...

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  5. Unqualified critiques? 1

    For one keen to trumpet academic values and the need for critical debate, it is a pity that Bob Brecher doesn't demonstrate them in his own column (Working Knowledge, May 13). He generalises...

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  6. Unqualified critiques? 2

    Reading Frank Furedi and Bob Brecher, one might think that a PhD, a smattering of part-time seminar leading, and a publications record qualifies anyone to teach adults. The value of training depends...

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  7. Murder not new

    What is so groundbreaking about David Buss's findings that men are supposedly "hardwired to kill", especially when incensed by sexual arousal? (Features, May 13). "Crimes of passion" have only...

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  8. RAE-assessment

    I hope your leader on the research assessment exercise was too pessimistic (Opinion, May 13). In the new system, we may find that 4* research is concentrated in few places. Whether funding is...

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  9. Quiz competence

    I read Alison Wolf's comments on exams and the audit culture with interest (Opinion, May 13). I have often wondered why we persist in having a system that discourages deep learning in favour of...

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  10. Football fantasy

    In the mid-Nineties you carried an article that sought to portray me as the world's unluckiest football fan. Three of my allegiances, Bolton Wanderers (bottom of the Premiership), Luton Town (bottom...

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  11. The Russian returned

    Physicist Pyotr Kapitza was indeed detained in Russia in 1934, (Campus curiosities, May 13). However, he did return to Cambridge, but only much later, in 1966. John Little Glasgow

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  12. X underrated

    Pornography has infiltrated mainstream culture and threatens to escalate sexual violence. In her first article for a British newspaper, Catharine MacKinnon, who along with the late Andrea Dworkin led...

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  13. Picking through the 'bleached bones' of leviathan

    Dorrik Stowe's hunt for Tethys, a lost ocean that once dominated the planet, takes leads him from the Dolomites to the Himalayas The Tethys Ocean once dominated the Earth. Its vast waters were party...

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  14. Little emperors' lifelines could be a gift for all

    China's one-child policy lies behind the success of a public-private stem-cell bank. Geoff Watts explains The building looks innocuous enough - a five-storey marble-and-glass edifice standing in a...

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  15. Campus curiosities. 05 Richard's follies at UCL

    Among the jumble of Victorian, Edwardian and modern buildings that make up University College London's Bloomsbury campus is a scattered collection of architectural plunder that clearly belongs to...

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