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I do hope that your editorial is wrong and that we will not have to endure another decade of the argument about getting more state school pupils into so-called 鈥渢op鈥 universities, as I聽am fed up with...
I do hope that your editorial is wrong and that we will not have to endure another decade of the argument about getting more state school pupils into so-called 鈥渢op鈥 universities, as I聽am fed up with...
You recently cited figures showing that about one in 10 of Bath Spa University鈥檚 professors is female (鈥淕ender gap still yawns among professoriate鈥, News, 13 June). It is of the nature of these...
As a full-time academic who is a wheelchair user living with multiple sclerosis, discrimination is a fact of life. Unlike my colleagues I聽do not have a choice over how I get to work: public transport...
On BBC Radio 4鈥檚 Today programme recently, Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker claimed that the world is retreating from violence and cruelty. According to the good professor, it seems we...
I can confirm for Richard Hoyle that the journal Theatre Notebook is run on such 鈥渙ld-fashioned lines that the editors give their time for nothing鈥, or at least nothing pecuniary (鈥淧ipe-dream...
I was surprised to see the eponymous character from Seth MacFarlane鈥檚 Ted appear in the illustration for John Kaag鈥檚 鈥淭eething troubles鈥 (Opinion, 13 June). I鈥檓 not sure that the drug-smoking, hard-...


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