A good eye for the pity of the 7th hell
Wilfred Owen
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Enticing fruits of many minds
The Oxford English Literary History
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Was red Ken's idea truly capital?
Urban Road Pricing
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Hunger and illness in a fertile field
So Shall We Reap
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Provoke the beast and create a very nasty atmosphere
The Discovery of Global Warming
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a story of three generations: "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord...
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Laurie Taylor column
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON Dear Georgina Middleton, It gives me great pleasure to invite you to receive your degree certificate at the graduation ceremony to be held in the university's Monsanto Hall at...
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Alan Ryan
Why are so many students anxious? Perhaps they have yet to learn that failures are a part of life and can be overcome When the American colonists declared themselves independent of their neglectful...
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Leader: Universities must tackle security
Higher education students are (nearly) all over 18 and do not expect or want universities to stand in loco parentis . However, like any organisation, the university has a responsibility to maintain a...
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Leader: Ease the 2005 squeeze
Ministers thought long and hard about ways to mitigate the effects of the introduction of top-up fees on those starting courses in 2005. Whatever they say now about prospective gap-year students...
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'Superstar' rating is not the issue
The Association of University Teachers, like many organisations and academics, is unable to distinguish the wood from the trees as far as the research assessment exercise is concerned ("Union puts...
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No disservice
Anthony Glees ("Scholars thwart spies", April 9) is right to "accuse" academics of scepticism about the claims of western security services that they are the defenders of democracy. If they are doing...
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European brief
Nancy Rothwell is right to raise the large number of European issues that directly affect the higher education sector (Opinion, April 2). Policy emerging from both the European Parliament and the...
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Expert at fault
It matters not that the so-called Meadow's law was taken from previous research ("'Incensed' Southall attacks press slurs", April 9). As an expert witness in the Sally Clark case, Sir Roy Meadow was...