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  1. Letter: Beware stereotypes 1

    What is meant by "ethnic" background in describing "motivated" students (Analysis, THES , February 1)? Each of us belongs to a particular racial, national, religious and cultural background. If "...

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  2. Letter: Beware stereotypes 2

    The negative racial stereotype in the cartoon that accompanied the article "30% dropout rate dismays Australians" ( THES , January 25) shows your antenna for institutional racism were not plugged in...

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  3. Letter: Lesbians? Who cares?

    Michael Heseltine can doubtless speak for himself, but I am sure that he would be surprised that he has supported our campaign for a statue of Sylvia Pankhurst to be erected outside the Palace of...

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  4. Lab-solutely fabulous

    She's Italy's La Professoressa, role model for feminists and cham-pion of cash-starved researchers, but for her, science is there to help the world's poor. Paul Bompard meets Rita Levi Montalcini....

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  5. Behind our love is a lust for new life

    In our series on Big Science Questions, Tim Birkhead looks at research in male-female attraction. We have all felt that little zing! when we see someone we fancy, and a much greater ZING! when these...

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  7. Business buys into deals with diplomacy

    As the global economy increasingly thrusts big business into conflict with pressure groups and NGOs, demand has risen for a new academic discipline - 'corporate diplomacy'. Tony Durham reports....

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  8. France still feels the force of his habitus

    The legacy of Pierre Bourdieu (right), a giant of sociology, is the rigour with which others continue exposing the brutal truth of life under capitalism, writes Fred Inglis. With the death on January...

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  9. Silent suffering of caring sector

    Without action to halt its demographic time bomb, social work will continue to decline, argues Terry Philpot. Who is Mr or Ms Social Worker? The popular image, and one occasionally peddled by...

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  10. Don't worry, you are highly marketable

    For academics who find themselves back on the job market, the advice is to rip up your CV and to see yourself as 'a solution', Olga Wojtas explains. As the financial pressures on higher education...

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  11. If only Flash Gordon were Steady Eddie

    Is the reason that women are outperforming men academically really due to the switch away from exams to coursework? Ruth Woodfield looks at the evidence. When Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam...

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  12. Men shopping? A load of billiard balls

    Katrina Honeyman reveals how one man managed to lure male shoppers out of the closet and take the embarrassment out of a feminine pursuit - thus setting the stage to make the buying of clothes...

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