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The ethics of George Bush: good, bad or irrelevant? 1
During his controversial presidency George W. Bush has faced a variety of issues that could be addressed from an ethical standpoint, from the environmental concerns of the Kyoto protocol to the...
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The ethics of George Bush: good, bad or irrelevant? 2
During his controversial presidency George W. Bush has faced a variety of issues that could be addressed from an ethical standpoint, from the environmental concerns of the Kyoto protocol to the...
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One brave heart wins over minds of many
This week, Alison Elliot makes history as the first female in a key Church of Scotland post. Olga Wojtas asked her about breaking the stained-glass ceiling. When Alison Elliot was a schoolgirl in the...
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Once more into the bunker
Joachim Fest was forced to fight by Hitler, and he has been forced to return to the Führer time and again as a historian. Doron Arazi meets a giant of German journalism. On May 8 1945 it was all over...
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Big guns may win the battle but not the war
What wins wars? Jeremy Black finds superior arsenal is just one factor in determining which side is victorious Historians used to emphasise the material aspects of war - specifically the quality and...
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Laurie Taylor column
Morning, Doctor Quintock. Looking for your Contemporary Cultural Theory scripts? What's that, Maureen? Your second-marking D106 scripts. They're over there by the window. Next to Narrativity. Maureen...
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Own goal in grading of degrees 1
The reform of the system for awarding university degrees in the UK will be meaningful only if it includes a serious look at the issue of bare-minimum requirements ("Degree grades 'are too crude'",...
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Own goal in grading of degrees 2
Given the love many academics have for football these days, surely it is time to reclassify degree gradings in line with the Football League. A first could be Premiership, a 2:1 could be a first...
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Lose sense of science
One grows weary of reading that Baroness Greenfield's failure to be shortlisted for Royal Society fellowship represents prejudice, or "club culture", as Geoffrey Alderman alleges, (Soapbox, May 7)....
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What's your carrot?
I was interested in the implication that concern over attendance is increasing. ("Make your presence felt, stick in that dibber", April 30). I would like to know what other institutions do to...
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Convoy on right tack
I hope you will forgive a college principal and a former senior tutor if we mark your essay "Oxford's future vision could upset colleges" (May 7), in which you make a number of factual errors. When...
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No student of mine
In his otherwise very fair review (April 30) of my debate with Gill Langley on animal experimentation, Steve Farrar repeats the myth that Langley was a student of mine at Cambridge University, "who...
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Unclassy system 1
As a sociologist specialising in educational policy studies, I found your report on students from the middle classes dominating higher education bewildering ("Trainee medics are top of 'posh' league...
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Unclassy system 2
You report that "students from rich backgrounds" are more likely than poor ones to gain entry to medicine and other subjects allied to medicine, which includes nursing. But nursing itself covers a...