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  1. Degree that offers the lot

    It's fashionable, accessible, flexible, challenging, rigorous, diverse and vocationalI No wonder so many people are signing up for art history. Shearer West reports. When Prince William enrolled at...

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  2. What lurks in the shadows?

    If the US topples Saddam Hussein, will it then foster a democratic society in Iraq or just replace an intractable tyrant with one more amenable to its interests? asks Charles Tripp What will happen...

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  3. New kind of science, old kind of sceptics?

    Stephen Wolfram had such confidence in his 'new intellectual structure' that he decided to sidestep peer review and publish A New Kind of Science himself. But while the book has proved a hit with the...

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  4. 'Support the people in freeing themselves'

    Although they consider Saddam Hussein a tyrant, many Iraqi exiles view a US invasion of their homeland with ambivalence. Three academics share their reservations with Chris Bunting Mohammed Hassan...

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  6. Trapped by terror, hostage to history

    In the wake of the Bali bombs, C. W. Watson urges the international community to pause and consider Indonesia's past before jumping to conclusions. The murder of more than 180 innocent people dancing...

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  7. Career fallout from a legal blast 3

    Richard Barker's claim that he lost his libel case because of a clash between two different systems that use different languages is self-serving humbug. The trial was about a clash not of systems and...

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  8. Career fallout from a legal blast 1

    It is not often that I agree with Richard Webster's views about child abuse but his call for Richard Barker, who led the Shieldfield inquiry, to resign from Northumbria University or be dismissed...

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  9. Career fallout from a legal blast 2

    I am a colleague of Richard Barker, although I do not know him personally. I do, however, know something about the psychology of child testimony, having published in that area. I cannot agree with...

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  10. Language lessons 1

    Gary Day rightly takes people to task for bastardising English but he unfairly tars all managers with the same brush (Why I, THES , October 11). Linguistic excesses are every bit as likely to be...

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  11. Language lessons 2

    More pernicious than "bureaucratese" is the misuse of language to distort meaning. Take learning, for example. It is neither delivered nor provided. It is learners who learn. There is also a...

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  12. Language lessons 3

    At the Conservative Party Conference, law student Georgina Hill argued that taxpayers would get a better deal from having "less universities" and "less obscure and, frankly, worthless degrees" ("...

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  13. Head in clouds

    Could the illusion of the moon appearing larger when near the horizon be explained by how we see clouds? ("Lunar puzzle that has clues but no answers", Books, THES , October 4). Suppose we have a...

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  14. Modules work in US

    Modular courses came about as combined honours courses, which had lower student entry requirements than traditional honours degrees ("Students choke on bite-sized learning", THES , October 4; Letters...

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  15. No Berlusconi stooge

    Domenico Pacitti's review of Paul Ginsborg's Italy and its Discontents (Books, THES , September ) offers a highly distorted view of the book's contents as well as of its author. He accuses Ginsborg...

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