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  1. Wet idea

    I am sure academics will endorse Bruce Charlton's views on the latest piece of bureaucratic dottiness from civil servants, although whoever chose the title "transparency" obviously has a nice sense...

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  2. Dodgy dealings 1

    George Macdonald Ross is right (Letters, August ). The concept of plagiarism is complex and disputed, but perhaps also endemic in academic life as a whole. In a brief check using Joint Information...

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  3. Dodgy dealings 2

    Since the Government feels entitled to start wars on the basis of plagiarised "dodgy dossiers", I fail to see why universities such as Sunderland should be embarrassed about awarding degrees on the...

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  4. There's a Scot, an Irishman, and a man who is confused...

    Britain is an exception to the common nationalist belief that every nation should constitute a state and that a state is weaker if it is multinational (as J. S. Mill said in his famous debate with...

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  5. We love a drop of sherry, but can't take the strong stuff

    In England, the Church of England is established by law as the national church, and though there is no established church in Wales or Scotland, the Crown is legally bound to protect the position of...

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  6. What the Muslims can learn from Jews

    Muslims are not alone in facing the pressures of finding a balance between national identity and diasporic ambitions. Over the past year, the vision of multicultural Britain that held sway for much...

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  7. Defined by some distinctly hyphenated Britishness

    Rumours of the death of multiculturalism are exaggerated and can alienate the very communities that must be brought into the mainstream. In the 1950s, Britain's non-white ethnic minorities...

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  8. It's falling apart at the seams

    Britain has lost its sense of identity, argues Keith Hart, who predicts that this country is on its last legs. Western values have officially remained more or less the same since the liberal...

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  9. Special - What it means to be British

    </a>      The Times Higher invited five academics to comment on what it means to be British. Together, they ponder a very English identity crisis and chart the decline of formal...

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  10. Today's news

    Women suffer £5k pay gap at UK universities Women earn up to a quarter less than men at some universities despite taking the lion's share of recent promotions, according to new figures. Average pay...

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  13. Envisat witnesses return of the South Polar ozone hole

    Paris, 01 Sep 2004 The smudges of dark blue on this Envisat-derived ozone forecast trace the start of what has unfortunately become an annual event: the opening of the ozone hole above the South Pole...