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  1. Don't stint on maths

    Jim Al-Khalili argues that one should not consider the new ISciences degrees to be a "science-lite soft option" but rather the gateway to "a career in some cutting-edge research field" (Opinion,...

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  2. Sausage-free state

    Harriet Swain made perfect sense in suggesting that as lecturers we must involve students in the knowledge-making process ("Ready to furnish tools of thought", September 28). But isn't that what a...

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  3. Documenting injustice

    Stephen Desmond tells the story behind his film for al-Jazeera on the illegal abduction of former PLO stalwart Jaweed Al Ghussein - by the PLO In 2005, I was an academic teaching in the UK with a...

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  4. Budding of suburbia

    What induces big-name authors to teach on the growing number of creative writing courses, and is it a subject that can be taught anyway? Harriet Swain meets two new converts to the academic cause,...

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  5. Home tweet home

    What makes some birds spend years perfecting their nests, why do spiders spin webs, and who has the blueprint for the queen bee's palace? Karen Gold gets the answers from the UK's only professor of...

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  6. Le chat sat on the mat

    For those who are multilingual, switching between languages is often unconscious. But, asks Geoff Watts, what triggers the switch and what happens when the controlling mechanism goes wrong? Digging...

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  8. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a prizewinning historian: "However much they might have agreed on the need for accuracy and...

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