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  1. Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics'

    Pugh does not engage with the ethical and intellectual issues that Purvis raises about writing biography. His attempt to demonise her as the "mad woman in the attic" fails miserably since scholars...

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  2. Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics' 4

    Although I cannot comment usefully on the merits of Pugh's book, my personal experience shows that June Purvis believes that men can contribute to women's history. The pages of Women's History Review...

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  3. Letter: RAE stacks odds 1

    I have been watching the latest research assessment exercise unwind. It seems highly unlikely that the unprecedented improvements in ratings reflect genuine improvements as opposed to grade inflation...

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  4. Letter: RAE stacks odds 2

    Is undergraduate teaching a major contributor to high-quality research in the sciences - as was considered by the Robbins report in the 1960s - or an encumbrance? Using 1996 figures from the Higher...

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  5. Letter: RAE stacks odds 3

    Historians at Huddersfield also raised their RAE score from 3a to 5 but without recourse to professional sleuths. Nor was it viewed as achieving the "almost impossible". Rather it was the outcome of...

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  6. Leader: Spend on research, not its Byzantine grading

    The Higher Education Funding Council for England's decision to cut all but 5* research in this year's funding allocations has understandably provoked uproar. Was it for this that so many people...

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  7. Leader: Up fees for rich and help the poor - and do it now

    MORI's latest opinion poll for Unite has two particularly striking findings - apart, that is, from the astronomical amount a minority of students spends on drink. First, most of today's students...

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  8. Myth-making in silence

    Fascination with feral man represents the tension we feel between our 'savage' and 'civilised' natures. Karen Gold reports. In 1735, Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist and father of biological...

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  10. Tip-toeing in classrooms soothes the raw nerves

    At Ulster University, students tread softly to avoid offending those with deep-held convictions, writes Elisabeth Lillie. Political events confirm the durability of the divisions in Northern Irish...

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  11. Study hatred, and healing might follow

    I was recently reading the essays of the great Argentinian Jorges Luis Borges, and I came across a remarkable piece titled The Concept of an Academy and the Celts , which outlined the curious...

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  12. Play smarter, use your head

    Football is waking up to the fact that players need to pursue goals off as well as on the pitch. Matthew Baker reports. The path to higher education is not one that has been traditionally trodden by...

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  13. Chance of eternal life for chosen few folios

    Print on demand is set to revolutionise the way scholarly books are produced. Mandy Garner finds out how the OUP is preparing for the future Niko Pfund speaks with the zeal of a convert. "Print on...

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  14. Is marriage a human right?

    Next week, Oxford University will host the first in a series of Oxford Amnesty International lectures - sponsored by The THES - on sex rights and the difficulties of promoting such issues in non-...

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