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  1. Africa's tusk master

    Richard Leakey tells Andrew Robinson how a young bone peddler grew up to become a respected palaeoanthropologist and politician. "You say I'm a scientist and a conservationist and a politician. I'm...

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  2. Yangtze doodle dandy

    Self-expression or formal drawing lessons? Maureen Cox contrasts children's art in the UK with that of China. We know a good deal about children's ability to draw. Most of them begin by scribbling,...

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  3. Wasted talents

    Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Could do better." It is such a school report cliche that,...

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  4. Unorthodox... and untenured

    Sian Griffiths reports on the mystery surrounding the failure of a respected Muslim historian, Ayesha Jalal, to secure tenure at one of America's leading universities. Original", "very very good", "...

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  5. Early recitals

    Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Alexander Faludy's mother admits her son "stuck out like a...

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  6. Bright spark

    He is a part-time electronic engineering student at the University of Plymouth. He is sponsored by British Aerospace. He has been awarded the City and Guilds Silver Medal for outstanding achievement...

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  7. First words of wisdom

    Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. When Ian Murray arrived at nursery school to pick up his son...

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  8. A rocky path for 'roll-over option'

    Don't," said a particularly perceptive member of our university senate during a sombre debate on funding last week, "don't let us be trapped into thinking that there is no alternative to locally...

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  9. A novel, super concept

    I respond to a bookstore like a gambler to a casino. And for many years my Las Vegas was London. Indeed, ever since my days as a postgraduate student in London, I could never sleep on the overnight...

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  10. Don's Diary

    SUNDAY. Three days to my PhD viva. I alternate between blind panic and profound gloom. Finish re-reading my thesis for the third time. Any "original contribution to knowledge" seems to have...

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  11. Spirit moves

    If your diarist (THES, February 16, Antithesis) wishes to exalt religious fervour among the Christian sects at Leicester University, he should at least get the facts right. The events diary in...

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  12. Mergers, marriages and unions

    I was bemused to read Alison Utley's article which referred to the AUT's strategy to create a single union for higher education. The presumption behind the editorial was that only academic staff...

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  13. Freedom to multiply

    The opinions expressed by your panel of experts on the problem of population growth in the third world (THES, February 16) all rather missed the point. To argue that population growth induces...

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  14. Peter backs Paul

    I write in cross-sectoral support of Ruth Gee's reasonable plea for better recognition of further education (THES, February 9). Not only the sheer size of the further education student population but...

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  15. Rationale for Dearing

    Gillian Shephard on why she has set up the review Britain's higher education system has long been acknowledged to be one of the best in the world. Over the years, it has produced thousands of men and...

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