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  1. Who dares turn their nose up at Mrs Dalloway?

    The rapturous reception of The Hours has confirmed the American love affair with Virginia Woolf but many British critics stubbornly refuse to accord her classic status. Brenda Silver explores a...

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  2. Science of Sunday roast and sex in space

    Len Fisher has a mission to explain science to the public and he uses biscuit dunking, gravy absorption and love in zero gravity to make his point. Scientists and non-scientists alike are intrigued...

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  4. Bursting bubbles of lofty repute

    A long-lost Shakespeare sonnet, Hitler's diaries and cold fusion are discoveries that scholars have gambled their reputations on. But, says Huw Richards, wrong turns can help spur advances. It seems...

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  5. Top-up fees: prudence or betrayal? 1

    Michael Wise overstates the shortcomings of Australia's ÌÇÐÄVlog Contribution Scheme (Letters, THES , January 31). Hecs did reduce the general taxpayer's contribution to higher education, but...

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  6. Top-up fees: prudence or betrayal? 2

    The government appears intent on perpetuating a perverse feature of its post-1997 reorganisation of student funding. Whereas most middle-class students were made £1,000 a year worse off when fees...

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  7. Reflect a little 1

    Alan Sinfield hits out at the "self-appointing Council for College and University English" ("Reader, you are not welcome", THES , February 14). CCUE membership is open to all UK English departments...

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  8. Reflect a little 2

    I was tickled by Alan Sinfield's view of reading. Apparently ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class dictate our book choice. Gosh. But that's only our starting point. The process of reading is...

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  9. One smalls problem

    The story about 58 Thai students arrested for cheating (Diary, News: International, THES , February 7) raised some intriguing questions. The students were, reportedly, sitting multiple-choice exams...

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  10. Hold fire on Iraq

    If United Nations Security Council members, under US government threats, pass a resolution permitting an attack on Iraq, they will be acting ultra vires , beyond their legitimate powers, because such...

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  11. Who wears the ears?

    So higher education minister Margaret Hodge blames universities for providing "Mickey Mouse" courses ("Mickey Mouse row revived", THES , February 14). She and successive governments need to look in...

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  12. Hacks hold the reins

    Tom Hickey asked "why didn't we say no" to the degradation of academia (Soapbox, THES , January 24)? It is true that the state has forced much of this on academia, but it could hardly have done so...

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  13. Unmistakable link

    Mona Baker has involved the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the dispute over her dismissal of two Israelis from the editorial board of periodicals she publishes ("...

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  14. Money talks 1

    In an academic environment in which truth is what you can get away with, full marks must go to Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, who argued on the basis of "proper comparisons" (...

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  15. Money talks 2

    Andrew Oswald justifies £10,000 pay increases for vice-chancellors (Soapbox, THES , February 7) by saying: "It is plain that vice-chancellors are underpaid, not overpaid. It's a rough job that takes...

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