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  4. Laurie Taylor Column

    International students will be invited to write "a letter home" from their UK university in a new British Council competition - THES, November 1 . Dear Mother I am writing to you in English so that I...

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  5. Leader: Top-up fees look like the only game in town

    For a master politician skilled at evading the question, Tony Blair has barely disguised his intentions on top-up fees in the fortnight since they shot up the political agenda. While refusing to give...

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  6. Leader: Why couldn't a new year start in January?

    Universities have claimed for years that they wanted a post A-level admissions system, while simultaneously insisting that it could not be done. How ironic that the moment real progress was being...

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  7. Is imagination more important than knowledge? Einstein

    Berlin, 1929. The poet and journalist George Sylvester Viereck has charmed an interview out of an initially reluctant superstar physicist¹. He asks: "How do you account for your discoveries? Through...

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  8. Benefit to womb from a view

    'And this is a picture of your ovaries.' Geoff Watts examines the radical methods being used to teach trainee doctors good bedside manners. When doctors have finished examining the nooks and crannies...

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  9. Money back guaranteed?

    If top-up fees are adopted, demand for data on what students can expect to earn from their degrees will grow. Chris Bunting reports. In Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure , a young Jude talks to...

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  10. Take away the books and chairs collapse

    Is the monograph dead? Stephen Phillips reports on US scholars' search for alternative publishing opportunities on the route to tenure. Tracing the academic food chain back, most US humanities...

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  11. Will monographs fall victim to the marketing men?

    Helen Hague finds that, in the UK, the hybrid textbook is knocking the traditional tome off the library shelf. Research in arts and humanities in British universities is proliferating, fuelled by...

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  12. L'administration leaves French flair undimmed

    Continuing our look at the work of people in higher education, All in a day's work, Harriet Swain spends a day with the head of Nottingham's School of Modern Languages. Name : Nicholas Hewitt Post :...

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  13. Open market shuts door on scholarly achievement

    The mentality that portrays students as consumers restricts the true intellectual choice available to them, argues Frank Furedi. The rhetoric of student choice is all the rage in higher education. "...

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  14. Is the masterplan coming unstuck?

    UK business appears to have an insatiable appetite for employees brandishing MBAs, but when the going gets tough it might find that such qualifications really aren't worth the paper they are written...

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  15. We must make words

    As the US considers a unilateral strike on Iraq, Sean Coughlan talks to Oxfordacademic and former peacekeeper Sir Marrack Goulding about the future of the UN One could imagine meeting Sir Marrack...

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