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Indiscreet as war on terror
John Dunn searches for definition in the yearbook of civil society. Just what is "global civil society"? Seen through the eyes of the editors of this inaugural volume of its personal yearbook, global...
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India's lasting disposable art
A Historical Mela
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Messy lives left us in tears
Stan and Ollie
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Bard is a silent and talkie type
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
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Fighter refused to play Hollywood's shame game
A Very Dangerous Citizen
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Sam and Jeannie get timely revamp
Reading the Vampire Slayer
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Hack pack on the rack
It Ain't Necessarily So
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Paddy Pantsdown and pals
Political Scandal
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a work by a journalist known for his cutting edge: "Once upon a time the English knew who they...
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Laurie Taylor column
" Peer observation of teaching is being held up as the next big quality tool " - THES , March 15 Ah, Professor Lapping. Please sit down. Welcome to the Peer Observation Exercise. Look here, Derek,...
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Letter: Acting out equality
"Don't deny spice of life" (Soapbox, THES , March 15) points out that universities and colleges need to act now to ensure that they comply with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001...
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Letter: Where will envy lead?
Final-salary pension schemes are being phased out in the private sector to be replaced by money-purchase schemes that provide inferior benefits. It will be only a matter of time before the final-...
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Letter: Not that special
While glad to be included under "heavy hitters" in your piece on post-research assessment exercise funding losses ("Heavy hitters winded by huge budget cuts", THES , March 8), it is only because we...
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Letter: Truth about job losses 1
In your front-page article ("Grant cuts threaten 1,000 jobs", THES , March 15), you assert that Oxford Brookes University is "already facing the loss of 140 academic staff". This is not true. Oxford...