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  1. Stress expert who thrives on her subject

    Angela Clow juggles multiple roles in a hectic schedule as project leader, caring mum and the practical woman of her department. In the third of our series All in a Day's Work, Harriet Swain meets a...

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  2. Dimming the light of reflected glory

    Our craving for heroes has created images of scientific supermen who single-handedly changed our lives for the better. But, argues John Waller, we should be looking at the wider picture. In the BBC's...

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  4. One problem that remains to be solved

    How do you inspire young people to pursue mathematics? Martin Ince looks at UK efforts What is the problem with mathematics in British universities? Ask anyone and you will get the same reply: "...

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  5. Picture imperfect

    I certainly aged in the four weeks between photographs in The THES (In the news, October 4; "Celebrity snares", November 1). I am obviously not the celebrity you think as the error went unnoticed by...

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  6. Not our business

    Alan Shipman's claim that the MBA might not be worth the paper it is printed on ("Is the masterplan coming unstuck?", THES , November 8) is true only for a minority of graduates. There are more than...

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  7. Is Evans worthy?

    Gillian Evans has fought doughtily to make Cambridge University central administration stick to the rules, so eyebrows may be raised over reports of her promotion to professor before Regent House...

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  8. Petition has clout

    Queen's University Belfast's decision to axe classics ("Poet Heaney joins protest over axeing of classic", THES , November 1) means that potential students "will have to leave the province to do a...

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  9. Help with the kids

    I read with interest the argument that top-up fees will mean that most academics will be unable to afford to send their children to university (Letters, THES , November 8). Up until 1950, some...

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  10. Credit where it's due

    Tony Hewish's minimising of the part played by his student Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the discovery of pulsars should not be the final word (Diary, THES , October 25, November 8). The discovery of...

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  11. An eye on plagiarism

    The article "Troubled Wales is hit by plagiarism claim" (News, THES , November 8) conflates and confuses two cases. The first, Jo Kimber's, was a complaint to the University of Wales Swansea that was...

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  12. Eugenics is a reality

    Ian Wilmut's review of Genetic Politics (Books, November 8) ignores how the disability discourse has been hijacked by anti-abortionists. The obligatory denunciation of "eugenics" is one way of...

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  13. Confusing victims with bullies 1

    It is extraordinary that Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson should criticise the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology's investigation into Mona Baker's behaviour on behalf of...

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  14. Confusing victims with bullies 2

    Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson rightly expose Umist's let's-make-it-up-as-we-go-along "internal inquiry" into Mona Baker's activities. Like Baker, I have been the target of a Zionist "witch-hunt...

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  15. Confusing victims with bullies 3

    Mona Baker has the right to put forward unpopular opinions without fear of losing her job or privileges that go with it. But with privileges come obligations, such as not to bring one's institution...

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