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  1. Index for the elite 1

    The attempt by the European Science Foundation to build a European Reference Index for the Humanities is an elitist, secretive process ("Journal index fuels RAE fears", April 7). The contention that...

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  2. Index for the elite 2

    Your article "Journal index fuels RAE fears" (April 7) contains a number of inaccuracies. The article refers to a "Europe-wide citation index", but the European Reference Index for the Humanities is...

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  3. Prize idea

    Marcus du Sautoy says, rightly, that money is a great way to get kids' eyes to light up and mentions two prizes available to mathematicians (Opinion, April 14). Your Sustainability supplement (April...

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  4. Anatomy of a joke

    Laurie Taylor missed the alphabetical imperative reference to aardvarks when discussing the very welcome degree course in comedy writing and performance (April 14). An aardvark, an ayatollah and an...

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  5. A service not a cheat 1

    Some academics apparently regard the use of professional proofreading services by students as "spoon-feeding gone mad" or "cheating" or "passing off others' work as your own", ("Fluency can be all...

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  6. A service not a cheat 2

    Yvonne Turner's letter (April 14) is worrying. It is one thing to acknowledge that lecturers "tend to stereotype second-language speaking students as poorer than those who are fluent". It is quite...

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  7. Turbulent legacy of noose and guillotine

    Robert Tombs delves into the French psyche to find why the country's complaints so often turn into public disorder. The world now knows about France's unemployment problems. Prime Minister Dominique...

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  9. A disquieting clash of culture

    The UK's aid programme draws heavily on academic consultants but, as anthropologist David Mosse is all too aware, this can lead to conflicts of interest. In the late 1990s, Labour's Department for...

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  10. What are you hiding in that brown paper bag?

    Stop wrapping porn in a cloak of theory, says Nathan Abrams. It's time to confront sex in mainstream culture. Pornography is perhaps one the last untouched taboos of British academic study. In...

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  11. To pipe up or to shut up. Give us some direction

    Pat Bryden is gobsmacked at the dearth of discussion in seminars. Why don't lecturers do something about it? Getting my younger fellow students to say something - anything - in seminars was, I found...

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  12. 'My tutor said to me, this talk is dangerous'

    Since his student days, psychiatrist Duncan Double has sought to take the stigma out of mental illness. But his controversial methods led to his suspension, reports Adam James. Duncan Double is one...

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  15. Effects of Chernobyl worse than expected

    Brussels, 19 Apr 2006 Chernobyl has become more than just the name of the world's biggest ever nuclear disaster. Chernobyl has become a by-word for the dark side of modern life - how technology can...