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Slime mould turns heads
Signs of Life
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Evil dwarf meets quantum physics
Contemporary Buddhism: an Interdisciplinary Journal
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More should be made of moral anger
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
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Ways of seeing obscure view of heritage
Journal of Classical Sociology
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an 18th-century landmark in confessional literature: "So now I am alone in the world, with no brother...
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A postmodern pilgrimage through power and pain
Culture and Religion
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Sightseers on a topographic tour
Landscapes
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Laurie Taylor
University newsletters should be more honest - THES, April 19 The Popperian Poppleton's vice-chancellor gives enthralling lecture Delegates attending the annual conference of the International Forum...
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Leader: NHS plan hangs on attracting and training staff
Everyone in British education is drawing encouragement from the mention of schools, colleges and universities in last week’s budget. A word from chancellor Gordon Brown - when railways and other key...
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When diverse becomes perverse 1
Institutional diversity is not a chimera. Nor is the "multiversity" the solution to current policy dilemmas. A growing student population with an increasingly varied set of educational needs requires...
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When diverse becomes perverse 2
One question prompted by your article "More strings and less cash as v-cs revolt" ( THES , April 19) suggesting that universities will be expected to specialise more is: would a university...
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When diverse becomes perverse 3
Meritocracy means "rule based on merit". "Taking people on the basis of performance" is not that, Alan Ryan (Letters, THES , April 19) notwithstanding. He's right that this principle works for...
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Cash in on scarcity 1
We should welcome the coming collapse of national pay bargaining - and do everything possible to speed its demise ("AUT fights plan to link staff pay to job ratings", THES , April 19). In the absence...
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Cash in on scarcity 2
Grenville Wall paints a disturbing contrast between the proper status of staff in an autonomous university and their present submission in his former (modern) institution ("Why I think the university...