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  1. Partners in that F word

    IN THE light of the post-Kennedy discussions about the proper funding and other balances between further and higher education, may I propose the biggest quango of them all. A merged single overseer...

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  2. English in alien attack

    Radhakrishnan Nayar (THES, June ) seems rather upset by Arundhati Roy, Ian Jack and Salman Rushdie because he suspects that English is an alien medium, and therefore quite incapable of representing...

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  3. Fair fare for Mars Express

    IT IS disingenuous of my colleague Jasper Wall to contrast the landing of Nasa's Pathfinder mission on the surface of Mars with the decision to vacate the Royal Greenwich Observatory building in...

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  4. Hands off, hands on

    ALISON Utley's report on child abuse and Thomas Sambrook's book review on aggression (THES, July 11) make an interesting combination. Many social workers seem to hold the view, which probably has...

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  5. Urban jumbles

    YOUR "ECOCRITICISM" article was valuable and interesting but it repeats the persistent misconception that it is just about "nature writing" (THES, July 4). Since German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined...

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  6. Lapping it up on sand

    OH DEAR - Professor Lapping needs a holiday. His scorn ("thoroughly lower second") was unworthy of him. He has had a hard year; perhaps a fortnight on the beach at Teignmouth with a knotted...

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  7. Keeping up with Welsh

    THE SCHOOL of thought that the interests of Welshmen as individuals are best served by the destruction of the Welsh language, of which Christie Davies (THES, July 4) declares himself a member, is of...

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  8. Poor show at access

    "TAKE your positions now," proposes The THES (July 11) on the Government's pledge to widen access to universities. I took my position some time back. A year ago, I was head of social sciences at a...

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  9. A right of entry for everyone

    DESPITE the advent of mass higher education, access to university remains on the margins. Budget cuts make it difficult to hold the ground already gained, and higher education still serves as a form...

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  10. How teaching has fallen for a big con

    THE DEBATE about the relative merits of teaching and research in higher education and how to reward excellent performance is similar to the way people respond to the imaginary incentives they are...

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  11. First impressions

    This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from an author who was given a year to live in 1959 but did not die until 34 years...

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