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  1. Interview was fair 2

    How much do applicants to Oxbridge really miss by rejection? My interviews for Oxford were not that terrifying, but as a mediocre classics student I was taught by people whose style ranged from...

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  2. Trivial pursuits

    Fascinatingly trivial as the life of George Robert Fitzgerald was ("Georgian England saw first 'celebrity'", THES , January 9), the true progenitor of today's B and C-list celebrities was surely John...

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  3. Nottingham bodes ill 1

    The national implications of Nottingham University's pay scheme are immense (Letters, THES , January 9). The new salary scales and performance-related pay divorce academic from academic-related staff...

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  4. Nottingham bodes ill 2

    Nottingham University's claims that its new pay system is based on the proposed national agreement are disingenuous. Nottingham is what industrial relations and pay structures will look like if there...

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  5. The myth of Giddens' Porsche

    Michael North reports on the opportunities for academic writers to reach a popular readership and asks established authors for their top tips. The philosopher A. C. Grayling recalls that in the 1980s...

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  6. 'It's the war, stupid'

    With Saddam in US hands and the economy on track, Dubya should win a second term, says Huw Richards Unlike the only other father and son US presidents, John and John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush...

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  7. Sever the ties that bind young minds

    Students who live with mum and dad remain adolescents and never reach their intellectual potential, argues Frank Furedi. In the late 1980s, I was sitting with a group of German postgraduates at the...

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  8. Intellects forged at the family hearth

    Anna Fazackerley finds that those who are home-schooled may be more mature than their peers. "Your educational background is outlandishly weird," a frank undergraduate admissions tutor at the...

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  9. Masters or slaves of their time?

    How does personality affect politics? Huw Richards considers the academic perspectives. To what extent can an individual affect history? Are individuals wholly independent actors or entirely...

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  10. Facts don't reflect myths of power

    Ian Kershaw examines the extent to which strong leaders can effect sweeping political change. How did Hitler's narcissism influence his dominance of German politics during the Third Reich? How far...

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  11. A code to keep away judges, juries and MPs

    Social scientists must regulate the ethics of their research or risk having rules imposed on them, says Ron Iphofen The ethics of scientists have gained increasing prominence in the past few years,...

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  12. The myth of Giddens' Porsche

    Michael North reports on the opportunities for academic writers to reach a popular readership and asks established authors for their top tips. The philosopher A. C. Grayling recalls that in the 1980s...

    #Features

  13. 'It's the war, stupid'

    With Saddam in US hands and the economy on track, Dubya should win a second term, says Huw Richards Unlike the only other father and son US presidents, John and John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush...

    #Features

  14. Sever the ties that bind young minds

    Students who live with mum and dad remain adolescents and never reach their intellectual potential, argues Frank Furedi. In the late 1980s, I was sitting with a group of German postgraduates at the...

    #Features

  15. Intellects forged at the family hearth

    Anna Fazackerley finds that those who are home-schooled may be more mature than their peers. "Your educational background is outlandishly weird," a frank undergraduate admissions tutor at the...

    #Features