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  1. The marketing Midas with a golden boot

    'Goldenballs' may be losing his lustre in the West, but in the East they bow down before David Beckham. Ellis Cashmore tells how myth and market combined in a fairytale with a happy and lucrative...

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  3. Personal missions and public achievements

    The change that marks the start of a new academic year is reflected at the highest level as some big-name vice-chancellors bow out and new faces appear. Both those moving out and those moving up will...

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  4. 'This university has to be led by academics'

    Malcolm Grant University College London The walls of the cavernous rooms of the provost of University College London have been re-papered but otherwise remain bare. Malcolm Grant, the new incumbent,...

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  5. Sport science is unfair game

    Michael Rennie, like Richard Caborn, argues that sport and exercise science fails to use research to benefit the public (Letters, THES, September 12; Subject special, THES, September 5). Both claim...

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  6. Midlife crisis

    Despite Simon Inger's despair (Letters, THES, September 19), the real postdoc blues are those who achieve a doctorate in midlife and are discriminated against because of their age. I was an 11-plus...

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  7. Reasonable doubts

    When accusations are flying around that environmental scientists or environmentalists "sex up" their findings ("No grey areas in a green's world", THES, September 19), the issue of trust comes to the...

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  8. Simple arithmetic

    The earnings gap is widening not "despite" greater participation in higher education but because of it ("Value of a degree is on the way up", THES, September 19). In the past, after A levels you...

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  9. Gr8 nus 4 U?

    Jason Garner ("Is this written in text or just bad spelling?", THES, September 19) suggests that we force students to write on computers with the spellchecker on. But then we would have to explain...

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  10. Gr8 nus 4 U?

    Thnx 4 the 2 gr8 artcls on txting (September 19). U can gt more XCLNT artcls thn B4 by sving space. IMO, th artcls wr not CWOT :-) Mark Griffiths Nottingham Trent University

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  11. Background bias

    Your choice of a photograph of Christ's Hospital School pupils to illustrate the story on private schools and university admissions ("Private heads curb bias claim", THES, September 19) is...

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  12. Muddled meaning

    Apologies to David Benedictus for saying he wrote the novel The Guinea Pig when I meant The Fourth of July ("The making of a vice-chancellor, THES, September 5). The Guinea Pig was Roy Boulting's...

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  13. In for the long haul

    The transfer of the Institute for Learning and Teaching to the new Higher Education Academy will regrettably lead to a decrease in the involvement of ordinary academics ("ILTHE vote on disbanding",...

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  14. Error of judgement

    So the Higher Education Funding Council for England proposes to reduce all media course cash to the baseline classroom weighting ("Key subjects in cash crisis", THES, September 19). This is...

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  15. I want the badge

    I was elated to read of David Lane's discovery that people like me are "born leaders" ("Spot the university candidate - aged 3", THES, September 19). Mind you, it took him two-and-a-half years to...

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