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Laurie Taylor column
Lapping speaking. Professor Lapping. It's Jane Seligman. Professor Lapping, I'm not there. You're not where, Jane? On the list. I came in yesterday after my holiday and went to the board to look at...
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Scotland's principal prima donna
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama's new head envisages it becoming a cultural powerhouse for Scotland. Olga Wojtas reports. "I've never had a job before," says John Wallace, the new...
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A theme park for the Brits behaving badly
In the second in our summer series on tourism, Hazel Andrews looks at how much of the lewd, boozy, seemingly fancy-free behaviour of many tourists in the area of Majorca known as 'Shagaluf' is...
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A right to be Mr and Mrs
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that a British transsexual can marry. Adam James spoke to Stephen Whittle, the lecturer fighting for UK transsexual rights Transsexual people have...
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Challenge to age-old conviction
Australia was settled as a penal colony, right? Ex-policeman Dan Foley disagrees, arguing that deportees were in fact the victims of a far more ambitious scheme. Caroline Davis reports. Paddington...
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Not so jolly hockey sticks
The bias towards the masculine displays of competition, strength and speed in the PE curriculum is alienating girls, Jim Denison writes. From disheartened sideline spectators - or worse, uninvited...
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Helping Kyrgyzstan make the news
Angela Thomae reports on a project by a British university that aims to help would-be journalists in a former Soviet republic distinguish opinions from facts. "Sorry, where did you say?" I asked my...
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Spinning yarns with silk road storytellers
Central Asia has a huge hunger for cultural expression and exchange. The UK should do more to satisfy it, says Sally Pomme Clayton. On tour in April with the British Council Literature Department to...
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The ABCs of HIV/Aids
Fran Balkwill does not let her 'day job' leading cancer research keep her from her passion - conveying the stories of science to children. She spoke to Claire Sanders. For Fran Balkwill, a prominent...
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Moral? Maybe. Double edged? No doubt
The sacking of two Israeli scholars from the boards of journals as part of an academic boycott highlights the question of whether such actions work and whether they do more harm than good. Caroline...
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Pencil point blunted
I read "Is your career in the can?" ( THES , July 5) with interest, particularly as it highlighted the achievements of London Institute students. But the conclusion mentioned the institute's improved...
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Savage closure
We the undersigned write in protest at the University of Birmingham's recent decision to close the department of cultural studies. It is internationally acknowledged that the department has been a...
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Unjustified rebuke
I supervised Dennis Foster's part-time PhD thesis studies from October 1997 until July 1999 (Whistleblowers, THES , July 12). Dr Foster failed his PhD at Exeter University, but subsequently achieved...
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Perfectly formed
My university strongly refutes the suggestion that its redundancy committee is "improperly formed" (For the record, THES , July 12). Two members of academic staff sit on it, as our statutes require....