Can truth mend fractured lives?
A Country Unmasked
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An open door for closure
Coming to Terms - For Humanity
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Finding a new midwife for a rebirth of history
A Force More Powerful
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Green tea, tragedy and a bit of the other
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
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Suffrage does not equal democracy
The Right to Vote
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Of gentle journeys in violent regions
Three Journeys in the Levant
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TV gods and nationalist demons
Politics after Television
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Laurie Taylor column
Universities are employing more and more of their own undergraduates for cleaning and catering jobs - THES September 21 Next please. Move your tray along. Ah yes. What's on the menu today? There's...
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Letter: Debt-free collection
Charging a market interest rate on student loans could apparently raise £400 million to reduce student poverty ("Market-rate loans proposed", THES , September 21). But who would contribute the...
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Letter: Take time on mergers
Sir David Watson's discussion paper presented to the vice-chancellors using data accrued by Brian Ramsden (Analysis, THES , September 7) may aim to change the shape of higher education, but those...
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Letter: Pragmatic placement
I wish to add my reservations about the effect of constraints on student placement in the Quality Assurance Agency's proposed new code of practice ("QAA issues rules for placement", THES, August 17...
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Letter: Don't separate skills
Skills? Yes, indeed. Students need skills and, at the conclusion of their courses, they should know what skills they have acquired ("How to put first-years on the right track", THES , September 7)....
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Leader: High time for a look at control of academic life
Few things in public life are more panic-inducing than the arrival of the Whitehall investigators. But the inquiry into universities planned by the Cabinet Office's Better Regulation Task Force is an...
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The right Pill at precisely the right time
If the creation of the oral contraceptive had been delayed, it would never have made it to the market, argues its inventor Carl Djerassi. On October 15 1951, the first synthesis of a steroid oral...
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Shift needed on bright-wing politics
Gifted children are not a homogeneous group. Consequently, there is a variety of definitions of "giftedness". A review of international research I conducted for schools inspection agency Ofsted shows...