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  1. Critical angles 2

    In his otherwise admirable call for science students to be taught about the larger moral and social contexts of their work, Richard Hoggart mistakenly assumes the biggest obstacle comes from...

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  2. Style counsellor 1

    Despite the problems it has brought for Gary Day, I welcome irreverence in your pages - and it's good to see it spreading. Take Susan Bassnett's piece on dress codes (Working Knowledge, October 29)....

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  3. Style counsellor 2

    Susan Bassnett is obviously influenced more by style than substance. It's a sad reflection of our present pass that colleagues who should know better are seduced by the pseudo-authoritative veneer of...

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  4. A touch of moonshine

    Len Fisher repeats a common tale - that the Astronomer Royal pronounced that "space travel is bunk" a few weeks before Sputnik 1 was launched (Features, October 29). However, this "quote" has not...

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  5. Levelling the field 1

    Alison Wolf's argument for the introduction of an SAT-type test was persuasive (Opinion, October 22). Selecting on the basis of A levels alone does not always ensure the brightest students get to the...

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  6. Levelling the field 2

    One point that Alan Ryan might have made (Opinion, October 29) is that it is unsurprising that the Government denies that it intends to insist that universities meet their benchmarks. As benchmarks...

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  7. It's down to faith 1

    "The question is whether God is more probable than Russell's teapot. There may be good reasons to say yes. If so, they will be scientific ones. Let's hear them," says Richard Dawkins (Soapbox,...

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  8. It's down to faith 2

    Richard Dawkins is wrong in saying that the 19th century saw the triumph of science over religion. The battle rattled on into the 20th century and was more an armistice: a tacit agreement about where...

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  9. Independent thinking

    It was nice to see the department of economic and social history at Glasgow University mentioned in Peter Wardley's review of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Books, October 29). We are...

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  10. World University Rankings 2004

      World University Rankings  Published in The Times Higher on 5 November 2004 A first attempt to compare universities around the globe Editorial: Top performers on the global stage take a bow  ...

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  11. Crossing the line: stories on mapping the maze

    Heather Leach argues against narrative flow in the essay that won the Palgrave Macmillan/ Times Higher humanities and social sciences writing prize. Last year I was 60 - a threshold. I tilt my head...

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  12. It's not just black and white any more

    The experience of African-American studies has lessons for the UK despite debates about its aims and direction, Stephen Phillips finds in the last of our series on black academics. In 2001, Harvard...

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  13. Get real if you want to hook them on history

    Is 'Big Brother in costume' bringing the past alive? Laurie Taylor listens in at a conference on history and the media It didn't take long for my cover to be blown at the Imperial War Museum. I'd...

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  14. The art attacks heat up in war on propaganda

    A new exhibition examines the War on Terror in ways that the mainstream media do not, says Christopher Wood. Two opposing opinions are sometimes voiced about the conditions necessary for art to...

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  15. Editorial: Top performers on the global stage take a bow

    Students, academics and companies placing research contracts all need to know which are the best universities in the world. And the measures used to identify them are crucial, explains John O'Leary....

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