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  1. A parental figure when you leave home

    Tom Hodgkinson, 21, third-year maths,Glasgow University Everyone needs a personal tutor. They are the parental figure you need when you move away from home, someone you can turn to when you get into...

  2. By George, they've got it

    A mannequin is at the centre of a pioneering computer-aided nurse teaching pilot. Olga Wojtas reports George Morgan, 22, has been taken by ambulance to accident and emergency after being found...

  3. Comfort in that personal touch

    Nicky Stanley and Jill Manthorpe argue that the one-to-one relationship of student and tutor needs to be cultivated and not pruned because of pressures The role of personal tutor can be a thankless...

  6. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author who said goodbyes to both a city and his country: " My first impression was that the...

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  13. Going, going...gone

    Black-market trade in antiquities is destroying some countries' heritage. Anne Sebba reports on battles by archaeologists to stop the looting James Ede, a London-based antiquities dealer, put two...

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  14. The trouble with treasure

    In 1990, Sotheby's in New York announced that it was to auction on behalf of the Marquess of Northampton a spectacular collection of silver, known as the Sevso treasure. The name derived from a Latin...

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  15. Linguistic ruminations on lethal mutations

    In the fifth excerpt from the THES book Predictions Noam Chomsky ponders the properties that define our species and asks if they will save or destroy us The record of prediction in human affairs has...

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