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  1. Serial killer halted by headlines and hype

    A vaccine for Sars may still be a long way off but, says Anna Fazackerley, the spread of the virus has been slowed by coverage in the press It might seem a classic media scare. A new and deadly...

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  2. Blood-thirsty outsiders are coming out of the coffin

    'Real vampires' have a taste for blood and nocturnal tendencies but are otherwise little like their mythical ancestors. Meg Barker reports Last Saturday, 19-year-old Alice headed out to a nightclub....

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  3. Tempest in a teapot holds the front page

    In a continuing legal battle over the censorship of student newspapers by college authorities, US courts are siding with journalists defending the freedom of speech. Walter Ellis reports Student...

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  4. Bulls and blaspheming beasts

    Frank Partnoy, who saw what the regulators missed in Enron's public accounts, tells Karen Gold that financial markets are spinning out of control and in danger of collapse Between 1996 and 2000, the...

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  5. World Education Market 2003

    "Advancing the Millennium of Learning" is the theme of this year's WEM conference and exhibition (Lisbon, Portugal: May 20-23, 2003), of which The THES is a media partner. Now in its fourth year, WEM...

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  6. In your league

    I am disappointed at the continuing failure of The THES to reflect a full and accurate picture of higher education in its league tables (May 9). Although you include some (but not all) of the higher...

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  7. Discounting data

    With regard to Lewis Lesley's plight at the hands of Liverpool John Moores University ("Dismissal branded as grotesque and contrived", THES, May 9), has anyone asked why the institution's records...

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  8. Medievalism and Mr Clarke 1

    Your report "Clarke lays into useless history" ( THES, May 9) puts forward a distorted picture of my views. I would like to put my views on the record. I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies...

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  9. Medievalism and Mr Clarke 2

    As one of Charles Clarke's constituents in Norwich South and secretary of the Philosophical Society at the University of East Anglia, I would like to invite the education secretary here to speak for...

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  10. Medievalism and Mr Clarke 3

    Charles Clarke wants the state to pay only for subjects of clear usefulness. If only there were a foolproof criterion for identification. G. H. Hardy, the mathematician who laid the foundation for...

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  11. Medievalism and Mr Clarke 4

    It is odd to find a supposedly progressive secretary of state for education mouthing the Gradgrindian views of Herbert Spencer. Spencer who, like Charles Clarke, thought that useful and economically...

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  12. Medievalism and Mr Clarke 5

    Charles Clarke appears to believe that the subject of a degree needs to be directly relevant to any subsequent employment. I wonder if he would care to comment on why the prime minister has appointed...

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  13. Medievalism and Mr Clarke 6

    The Czechoslovakian communist government before 1989 was strongly anti-intellectual and had reservations about subjects that could not be turned to the benefit of the proletariat. In the 1950s, a...

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  14. Medievalism and Mr Clarke 7

    As Charles Clarke asked, we have now tested the Bangor medievalists. We know them to be useful and believe them to be beautiful. Ceri Sullivan University of Wales Bangor

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  15. RAE sidelined 1

    We would like to express our support for the letter from the chairs of research assessment panels ( THES, May 2). We would endorse their concern that the Department for Education and Skills and the...

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