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Black and Asian Athletes in British Sport and Society
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Sex-trade primer for judges
Prostitution
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That immaculate confection
Camembert
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Snot and the single girl
Reading Sex and the City
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Cobleigh returns to the fair
Sociology
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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 French story that inspired an opera: "I had always suspected that geographers don't know what they'...
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Laurie Taylor column
"In the shopping mall that is the modern university, the chances that any two students have significant intellectual experience in common are much reduced" - Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of...
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Leader: Same ideals unite the high and low
No one will be surprised to learn that there are big differences between Oxford and Wolverhampton universities. Not only are they at opposite ends of the league tables, but one has the highest...
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Leader: Distinguishing details
Detailed transcripts of student achievements have long been a favoured alternative to simple degree classifications among the leaders of higher education. The obstacle to their more general...
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Grade A nerve 2
I am sure that, in his case against his university for failing to give proper guidance on acceptable research techniques in the use of web-based sources, student Michael Gunn would be able to rely on...
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Benefactors are us
So, universities should look to alumni to address underfunding ("Task force sees merit in drive to tap alumni", May 14). Most of my colleagues support their institutions by working 15 hours a week...
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System failure
The current weaknesses in examining practice are systemic and not primarily the result of individual failings (Letters, May 21). Externals should scrutinise a sample of scripts drawn from each...
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Lofty meanness
Mass higher education needs its popularisers as never before. So Jean Aitchison's review of Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English (Books, May 14) was particularly mean-spirited. Acknowledging that...
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Hail Tottenham
Frank Furedi's comments on the proposed Middlesex University development at Tottenham Hale are unacceptable (Soapbox, May 28). The site has excellent transport links to central London and is adjacent...
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Poor classification 1
David Rose (Letters, May 21) defends the new "nominal" government social-class schema as being the product of a seven-year programme of research involving fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences...