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  1. Control required

    Elsewhere in this issue, our chief inspector Gerald Vinten echoes the long-standing concerns that we at the British Accreditation Council have had about the weak controls the UK has had over degree...

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  2. Why is debate 'illegal'?

    University and College Union members were to participate in a unique debate: meetings involving Palestinian and Israeli academics discussing the pros and cons of a boycott vis-a-vis Israeli...

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  3. Value for money?

    Congratulations on balanced reporting of the Higher Education Policy Institute survey ("Part-time effort for full-time degrees", September 28) - in particular on avoiding the "lazy students" line...

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  4. Waugh-ha ha

    Laurie Taylor in his review of Evocative Objects (Books, September 28) says that one of the jokes at Forest Hill Comprehensive School was the story of the English teacher who, unable to control his...

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  5. Reality check

    From the choice of a child's name to the widespread difficulty in understanding the laws of physics, human beings are governed, Steven Pinker says, by innate and often fallacious conceptual...

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  6. Conflicts of interest

    Diaspora communities worldwide look back to, and sometimes frustrate peace plans in, the countries from which they have fled. How best, asks Hazel Smith, to make these far-flung peoples a force for...

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  7. War by other means

    While the conflict in Iraq grinds on, a parallel 'soft' war is being pursued by a host of new indigenous and Western-backed Arabic television, radio and internet services. Annabelle Sreberny says...

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  10. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a jazzy stream-of-consciousness riff on postwar America: "I first met Dean not long after my wife and...

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