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  1. NUS day of demos

    Following publication of the Dearing report and the government's response and proposals from it, you may have been led to believe that the NUS has done nothing but criticise the report in its...

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  2. Come clean on school backgrounds

    ANNE Campbell criticises Cambridge for an admissions system which gives "half the undergraduate places available each year to the 9 per cent of students" who have been to independent schools (THES,...

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  3. Come clean on school backgrounds

    Those who advocate concentrating research in fewer institutions and fewer departments should ask themselves whether they really wish an increasing proportion of the talented youth of this country to...

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  4. Come clean on school backgrounds

    At a time when the extensive wealth of the Oxbridge Colleges is being revealed, Sir Robert May's views on research funding (THES, November 14) are as inappropriate as they are misguided. If adopted...

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  5. Why Greats are good

    Matthew Freeman (THES, November 7) is absolutely right that higher priority needs to be given to funding scientific research. But he has not grasped the full range of reasons why so many high offices...

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  6. Review welcome

    You reported the Institute of Education as being among "high cost" institutions marked out for special scrutiny by the Higher Education Funding Council for England specialist institution panel (THES...

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  7. Saussure, so far

    Contrary to Christopher Stanley's accusation (THES, November 14) my critique of Lacan does not mean that I oppose all radical thinking, that I support the "banal violence of managerialism" or that I...

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  8. Don's Diary

    Monday Breakfast at 9.30am of cornflakes and white toast which would have been rejected as unhealthy six week ago. Research has found that fibre is essential in the diet; other research, however, has...

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  9. Lifelong yearning for recognition

    The regular glossy magazine from my alma mater slithered through the letter-box yesterday. Success stories abound and there is always a feature on distinguished alumni not only from the world of...

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  10. Giving is getting very taxing

    Just as students, parents and institutions received over $40 billion in tax aid, American colleges and universities are again facing major challenges as they confront significant demands to...

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  11. Golden oldies, no songs

    SO MANY CINEMAS: The Motion Picture in India. By B. D. Garga. Eminence Designs, Bombay, 320pp. Available at Pounds 49.50 from Asian Bookshop, 112 Whitfield Street, London W1. ISBN 81 900602 1 X....

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  12. The divineness of Devi

    DEVI: Goddesses of India. Edited by John S. Hawley and Donna M. Wulff. University of California Press 352pp, Pounds 38.00and Pounds 13.95. ISBN 0 520 20057 8 and 20058 6. Goddess (Devi) worship is...

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  13. Brands of tolerance

    IN THE NAME OF THE SECULAR: Contemporary Cultural Activism in India. By Rustom Bharucha. Oxford University Press, 197pp, Pounds 15.00. ISBN 0 19 564222 8. In India secularism is a subject that...

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  14. The Iron Duke's less famous footprints

    THE MAKING OF ARTHUR WELLESLEY. By Anthony S. Bennell. Sangam 235pp, Pounds 17.95. ISBN 0 86311 601 9. During this the 50th anniversary of Indian independence, it seems appropriate to consider the...

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  15. Lost, not forgotten, cities of the Indus

    SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 1993. Edited by Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 445pp (Volume one), 442pp (Volume two), $195.00 (both volumes). ISBN 951 41 0729 2. The 70...

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