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  1. There's more to mud than meets the eye

    From identifying a dismembered body to investigating Bronze-Age decking, it's all in a day's work for environmental archaeologist Nick Branch. Chris Bunting reports When Nick Branch is on his...

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  2. Maids, exiles, bankers and terrorists break down borders

    Steven Vertovec explores the vast, often hidden networks of modern, global diasporas Irish or Italian migrants to the US 150 years ago might have hoped that a letter would reach home weeks after it...

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  3. Comrades stop by for a political bring-and-buy

    Is student activism reviving? Ivor Gaber drops in on a UK teach-in It was almost like old Vietnam times: two dozen student activists sitting in a room in London University's School of Oriental and...

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  4. Historian holds US front line in war against war

    Is student activism reviving? Stephen Phillips talks to a US campus political veteran. As a US air force bombardier stationed in Britain during the second world war, bestselling radical American...

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  6. Yiddish lives on

    Readers of "Outcry as Soas drops Yiddish" ( THES , October 11) might think that Yiddish is no longer available at London University. But Yiddish is alive and well across the road at University...

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  7. Small bites or starve

    Why did we modularise (Letters, THES , October 11, 18)? Because offering minors, majors and single honours in each subject across a large modular scheme allowed small subjects to attract enough...

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  8. Focus on real threat

    Preparations for war against Iraq are illegal and are diverting attention from the war against terrorism ("What lurks in the shadows", THES , October 18). Britain's attorney-general has ruled that...

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  9. Merge quietly

    Your leader on the Imperial/University College London merger ("Ministers could find full cost fees too hot to handle", THES , October 18) makes much of the challenge to Oxbridge. This may be a...

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  10. Pretty impartial

    Stephen Gundle (Letters, THES , October 18) perversely misreads my review of Paul Ginsborg's Italy and its Discontents (Books, THES , September ) as a personal attack on Ginsborg. He fails to...

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  11. Quality request

    I am writing an account of the development of quality assurance in UK higher education between 1992 and 2002. I am interested in any work on the impact of quality assurance regimes, particularly...

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  12. Be clear on 'Irish' collaboration

    The future of cross-border collaboration in higher education in Ireland is up in the air following the suspension of the devolved institutions created by the Belfast Agreement ("Labour MP takes over...

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  13. UK industry a turn-off

    The reason why so few graduates in computer science and women graduates in science, engineering and technology work in their field of study may be neither poor tuition nor sexism but simply that they...

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  14. Pupils deserve better

    The article "Stakes rise in battle for places" ( THES , October 11) highlighted the fears of many students, parents and staff about the likely scenario for those applying through the Universities...

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  15. Do the decent thing

    Richard Barker cites two reasons why he should be allowed to carry on in his post as professor of social work at Northumbria University: that he is a successful academic and has colleagues' support...

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