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Scots students step up anti-fees campaign NUS Scotland is stepping up its campaign to ensure that fees are scrapped and grants returned for UK students in Scotland and Scottish students in...
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Funds halted after Johns Hopkins death Federally financed medical studies on human subjects at the Johns Hopkins University have been halted by the United States Department of Health and Human...
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The Nobel and the not nearly so Nobel
As 250 living Nobel laureates prepare to celebrate the centenary of the prize, Joseph Rotblat looks at key omissions in its controversial history. This year, the first of the third millennium, is the...
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The power of a sport to charm a prostitute's son and make playing nations blind to colour
The Picador Book of Cricket - Cricket and Race
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Dolly, Polly and boys from Brazil
When Dolly the sheep was born, journalists from around the world focused their attention on her and two human researchers from the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland. Dolly was the first...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that concerns two women writers and a dog: "It is universally admitted that the family from...
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Giving us an earthly chance
The Ingenuity Gap
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Screening for pure literature
Book to Screen
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Laurie Taylor column
From: The office of the vice-chancellor To: All members of academic staff Some members of staff have apparently expressed concern about the showing of this university in the recent THES survey of the...
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Letter: Shelf service
David Wells praises the British Library's achievements during the past 250 years, but fails to appreciate that we have not bought foreign language material comprehensively for almost 100 years (...
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Letter: RAE old boys' club?
The articles on the research assessment exercise submissions ("Union: RAE lies skew funding", THES , June 1; "Staff lose out in bids for RAE cash" THES , July 6) rightly highlight potential anomalies...
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Letter: Market forces
Jonathan Rutherford's comments on the increasing marketisation of education and the tension between the "goods and services" offered ("Let the corporate class commence", THES , July 13) should...
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Letter: Bewitching blue
George Ritzer has a point ("Let's make it magical", THES , July 6). Having lectured at Cambridge University for the past two years, I have often felt as if I am already working in a gigantic theme...
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Letter: ILT 'vapid and costly'
Is it any wonder the Institute for Learning and Teaching is "growing rapidly" ("Ready for take-off", THES , July 13) when a number of heads of departments and vice-chancellors are "advising" staff to...