Genetics with a conscience
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist whose work has been frequently filmed: "I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more...
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Side by side but not in step
Serbia - Unholy Alliance
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Tribal hostilities eclipse
Before Taliban - The Pathan Unarmed
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Imperial rulers in freedom's name
American Empire
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The least worst of political evils
Rich Democracies - Democratization
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History in the remaking
The Manchurian Myth - Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000
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Insightful on Islam, but still no answer to September 11
What Went Wrong?
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Laurie Taylor Column
The new white paper on higher education announces that an "access regulator" with power to hand out fines will be appointed - THES , January 24. From: The office of the access regulator To: The vice-...
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Leader: If stars are OK for research why not for A levels too?
Much of the agenda for higher education is clearer since last week's white paper. Academics might not like the direction in which they are being pointed, with top-up fees, much greater specialisation...
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Leader: By 2006, few will want to be in cut-price club
Vice-chancellors are understandably reluctant to commit themselves on the pricing of courses four years hence, despite the prompting of newspapers, including The THES . Why should they? Any...
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The man with sights on gangland targets
As UK gun crime escalates, Adam James talks to policy adviser Nick Tilley The murder of two teenage girls in a hail of bullets during a new year's eve party in Birmingham provoked a clamour of...
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Quiet man hopes for revolution of the mind
Tony Holland, Cambridge's new chair of learning disability, came into the subject by chance. He talks to Terry Philpot In October 2000, health minister John Hutton hailed the white paper on learning...
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'Bullying destroyed my self worth'
University support staff are complaining of a huge rise in cases of bullying. Is a hierarchical environment to blame? Harriet Swain reports Jane (not her real name) can no longer face going into the...
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Get out your module maps, it's time for a light-touch look at those underlying concepts and learning outcomes
The audit culture in universities diverts academics from their calling - researching and teaching - and makes them into paper-shuffling, jargon-spouting bureaucrats, says Todd Landman In March 2001,...