Oxford values
My 18-year-old daughter, intelligent and interested, recently started studying at Oxford University. Imagine the blow to her enthusiasm when there was no mark or comment on her weekly essays at the...
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Gaitskell's girl
In my piece about Arnold Goodman (THES, November 20), a number of sentences were conflated in an unfortunate way to imply that Hugh Gaitskell's daughter told me unprovable and sensitive things about...
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Why I ...
Howard Jeffrey Director of the mentor programme at City and Islington College, London At City and Islington College we run a mentor programme for students of African, Asian and Caribbean origin, and...
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Help the workers
As the THES/MORI poll reveals the extent of student work, Tom Wilson calls for more advice Most students are now doing paid work in term-time. The proportion is rising steadily and so is the amount...
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Perestroika without glasnost
University restructuring has been accompanied by a crackdown on free speech, says Suzi Clark Have you been "restructured" yet? There has been an epidemic of restructuring in campuses around the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who apparently could not count: "There were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris...
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Outing of the family album
Pictures of Innocence
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Price-sensitive passion?
The Sixties
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Why weary France cosied up to Hitler
Occupation
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Full body of little and big works
Celebrating Moore
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Redressing anti-Celtic propaganda
Celt and Roman
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Spinning a yarn from rich pickings
The Maya Textile Tradition
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The beauties of hereafter
Gifts of the Nile
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Clothing the emperors anew
Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors
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Learning to shop in Ming China
The Confusions of Pleasure