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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Clarity, treachery and silence 1

    There is a lot of muddled thinking about "poor" students ("Grants gamble to save bill", THES , January 9), though not by Charles Clarke. All students are poor. It is their backgrounds and families...

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  7. Clarity, treachery and silence 2

    If anyone is still confused about the ideology behind Labour's project, they should read "Blair bets all on wooing rebels" ( THES , January 9). Wendy Piatt of the Institute of Public Policy Research...

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  8. Clarity, treachery and silence 3

    I am a lecturer about to be made redundant by an institution that is not overstaffed but is desperately underfunded. In eight months, just under half my department will have left, more than a third...

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  9. Bound only to join in

    The higher education bill will not make decisions of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator legally binding, as you suggest ("Upfront fees ditched as access and complaints are fine-tuned", THES ,...

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  10. Labs in the red

    It is misleading to suggest that "laboratory-based subjects will not lose out" on teaching funding ("Hefce teaching windfall is boost for humanities", THES , January 9). In arriving at the...

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  11. Plumb job?

    I read with interest of the plumber who completed a higher national diploma and a degree and became a university lecturer ("Brave Scots win minds", THES , January 9). I wonder how his/her new role...

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  12. Quality will out 1

    There is no evidence that open access is censoring publication according to ability to pay (Letters, THES , January 9). As Iain Stevenson admits, the publication fee is being waived when authors...

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  13. Quality will out 2

    Many journals owned and published by scientific societies put surpluses generated back into science. The Society for Experimental Biology, which owns the Journal of Experimental Botany and part owns...

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  14. Interview was fair 1

    We utterly reject Dawn Chatty's version of her daughter's account of her interview for a place to read medical sciences at Downing College, Cambridge ("Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview", THES...

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  15. 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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