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  1. A tale of suspect spies and secret stairways

    The Institute of Education has had a lively 100 years. Huw Richards spoke to its biographer about some memorable moments and the struggle to establish a discipline's credibility. Sir John Adams is...

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  3. Golden goals versus local loyalty

    In its quest to build a lucrative global brand, has Man United lost touch with its true home fans? Adam Brown reports. It was the small hours of February 25 2001. A conga line of about 300 Manchester...

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  4. Cutting edge: Material opposites come in from cold

    Michael Charlton describes the first controlled production of antimatter, a missing 'half' of the stuff of creation. In 1931, motivated by little more than an extraordinary faith in the mathematical...

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  5. Dark horizons of knowledge

    Supernovae sent Robert P. Kirshner a startling message he did not want to hear - that the universe was expanding rapidly. So maybe Einstein's 'bad idea' was correct after all. It was a warm winter...

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  6. Why he must go

       When should a professor resign? When should a university choose to dismiss an academic? What constitutes bringing a university into disrepute? The very fact that such...

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  7. Cambridge clout 1

    Vice-chancellor Sir Alec Broers states that Cambridge University council is "emasculated" because every decision can be questioned by a handful of people ("V-c attacks selfish dons", THES , October 4...

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  8. Cambridge clout 2

    It is difficult to compare the differences between Cambridge's and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's intellectual property rights policies, because the two universities are so different ("...

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  9. Mirror, mirror

    Richard Gregory's elucidation of mirror images (Books, THES , October 4) becomes clear when we imagine a fly crawling over a vertical mirror. If it crawls to our left, the fly "in the mirror" crawls...

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  10. Study snack won't last a lifetime 1

    The view that modular courses examined at the end of a semester lead to lower levels of educational attainment ("Students choke on bite-sized learning" and Leading article, THES , October 4) is...

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  11. Study snack won't last a lifetime 2

    Please do not confuse "modularisation" with "semesterisation". Coventry University has a modular system but, apart from a small number of courses, has never been semesterised. Almost all of our...

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  12. Study snack won't last a lifetime 3

    It is hard to reconcile your critique of semesters with your admiration for top US universities. No one has demeaned my Massachusetts Institute of Technology education because it was organised in 15-...

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  13. Independent question

    In responding to my complaints about Luton University appointment procedures (Whistleblowers, THES , September ), pro vice-chancellor Tim Boatswain quotes a Bedford employment tribunal judgment and...

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  14. Pros of cultural capital

    As a bilingual British citizen from a refugee background, home secretary David Blunkett's statement urging parents from bilingual backgrounds to speak English at home disturbs me. I have seen many...

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  15. Cause for complaint

    David Warner misses the root cause of why so many students complain to outside agencies (Soapbox, THES , October 4). It is because the internal mechanisms for resolving complaints involves the...

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