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  1. Short-sighted Soas

    Staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies are distressed about two senior subject-librarians (Sue Small and Fujiko Kobayashi) being made redundant and two others under threat. These...

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  2. In theory 1

    As regards literary theory ("It's curtains for the gadfly of the piece", October 7), an important consideration should be its effect on the way literature is studied in schools, where many graduates...

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  3. In theory 2

    As a part-time mature student, I completed an English literature degree this year at a university priding itself on its position at the cutting-edge of the critical theory scene. I felt uneasy about...

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  4. In theory 3

    I note with interest, and also some dismay, that your straw poll on literary theory ("Has deconstruction had its day in class?", October 7) was conducted among "members of top-rated English...

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  5. Open not shut case 1

    Like many anti-religious militants, A. C. Grayling equates religion with its narrowest versions ("Amen to the pursuit of truth and reason", October 7). Understandable today, no doubt, but not from a...

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  6. Open not shut case 2

    "As the paradigm of responsible belief formation, religion is open, creative and always subject to debate. Science is dogmatic, final, closed, knows all the answers, damns as superstitious or...

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  7. Serial victim

    Your article "Serial litigant hit £100K mark", (News, July 29) purported to cover the outcome of tribunal claims of discrimination and victimisation against Nottingham University and Ian Gow by...

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  8. Road to peace is paved with small miracles

    The unlikely friendship between a Gaza Arab and an Israeli Jew in a London university gives Bill Parry hope It was the shopping trolley that brought them together. Separated back home by decades of...

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  9. Poems from the academy selected by Christopher Ricks

    The Vulture and the Husbandman - by Arthur Clement Hilton (writing as Louisa Caroline) The rain was raining cheerfully, As if it had been May; The Senate-House appeared inside Unusually gay; And this...

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  10. The institute of bad ideas

    If you need green ink for that grant application form, if you want to contract undergraduate teaching to Mumbai, if your department requires morris dancers-in-residence, or if your cat needs welding...

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  11. Take me to your leading scholars

    Only fools and frauds claim to have been abducted by aliens. Right? Wrong, says Susan Clancy, who finds that even eminent professors believe they have fallen foul of ET Everyone knows how it happens...

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  13. Campus curiosities

    Number 15: The redundant nuns of Jesus College, Cambridge Hidden in the fabric of Jesus College, Cambridge, is a story of ambition, heartless expropriation, academics and nuns. In the late 15th...

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  14. Stars of the screen lose the sparkle of romance

    Few professional astronomers use a telescope to explore the heavens. Geoff Watts asks whether computers have killed off a golden age You, the telescope, the night sky and a myriad stars at which to...

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