Uncle Sam's Latin family
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Restless Nation - Hollow City - American Project
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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 by a former physicist attracted to eastern philosophy: "Modern physics has had a profound...
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Faint echoes of freedom in manacled and migrant
The Many-headed Hydra
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Radicals down tools
It Didn't Happen Here
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King is at liberty to pass on his crown
The Civil Rights Movement
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The Union's untidy hero
Ulysses S. Grant
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Laurie Taylor Column
Enrolment of staff on courses - THES , June 8 Today's seminar is about globalisation. Let's start with a definition. The mature student at the back with the white hair and brown corduroy jacket. Name...
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Letter: Grades of error (1)
Sir Harold Kroto is absolutely correct in saying that a single number performance indicator "takes no account of important variations in the disparate educational factors offered by various...
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Letter: Grades of error (2)
The problems the QAA is facing can easily be traced to its failure to grasp the difference between "quality assurance" and the "assurance of quality". Both are well defined internationally in ISO9000...
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Letter: Future goals
When, despite being far ahead in the premiership, Roy Keane remarked after Manchester United's defeat in the European Cup: "We are just not good enough", some commentators began to question the...
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Letter: Luton staff courses
The context of Luton University's discussion on staff development is rather wider and better known than your article inferred ("Staff boost student roll-call", THES , June 8). The university is...
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Letter: Part-timer challenge
Your open letter to ministers (Leader, THES , June 8) neatly summarised the most urgent challenges facing higher education. New Labour has set ambitious targets for high-quality growth. So far it has...
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Letter: Doctors order a dose of ethics (1)
Your feature on the role of humanities in medical education and practice ("Try an aspirin and a bit of Shakespeare", THES , June 1) was welcome in recognising an emerging field of inter-disciplinary...
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Letter: Doctors order a dose of ethics (2)
Humanities complements the scientific approach to medicine. The relationship between doctor-patient and doctor-colleagues is a large element of medicine. Diagnostic, treatment, communication and...