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The THES serves up six pages of reflections on some of the changes that have been making many people in our society feel increasingly anxious and frightened TV journalism is making people unduly...
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Social bonds can withstand most bombs
The THES serves up six pages of reflections on some of the changes that have been making many people in our society feel increasingly anxious and frightened Terrorism aimed at a divided society will...
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Don't be embarrassed to embrace new era
The THES serves up six pages of reflections on some of the changes that have been making many people in our society feel increasingly anxious and frightened Britons are dropping the stiff upper lip...
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Give all your staff a real bonus - a No-Work Wednesday
The THES serves up six pages of reflections on some of the changes that have been making many people in our society feel increasingly anxious and frightened Complaints about job satisfaction are rife...
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Take two aspirins and thank your caring PM
The THES serves up six pages of reflections on some of the changes that have been making many people in our society feel increasingly anxious and frightened Health used to be an issue for a person...
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Please fund us properly, minister 1
In his attacks on "elite" universities for perpetuating social divisions, higher education minister Alan Johnson has said he wished he had gone to university instead of leaving school at 15. Why didn...
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Please fund us properly, minister 2
Rich kids do law, poor kids do physics - is that what prime minister Tony Blair, an ex-lawyer, really wants? That is the outcome of combining Alan Johnson's belief that law courses will subsidise...
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Survey questioned
Lee Harvey is correct in his critique of the pilot National Student Survey (Soapbox, THES , December 12). The survey will be expensive for institutions, use intrusive methods of surveying students...
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Acts of treason
Top-class researchers do not always make excellent teachers as Stephen Hill asserts ("100 new chairs being created to lift RAE scores", THES , December 12). Cutting-edge researchers are often too...
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Have a say in science? 1
Lord Winston may have gone too far in his suggestion that science cede control to the public, but some responses to him simply proved his point ("Critics lambast Winston's idea", THES , December 12...
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Have a say in science? 2
The "democratic" proposal from Lord Winston, who enjoys television celebrity status, is in fact thoroughly reactionary, as demonstrated by the whole history of science. Science, scientific facts and...
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No beef with BA
Vinita Damodaran and Richard Grove (Soapbox, THES , December 5) misrepresent our societies' meeting to discuss our response to British Academy funding proposals. We are continuing a constructive...
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It's not all in the mind
Symptoms of illness are often "unexplained" only because medical professionals are not carrying out enough exploratory investigations ("The medical mystery giving doctors a dose of humility", THES ,...
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Counting on a Nobel
It has been known for many years that Nobel prize-winners have a higher citation count than those who do not win a prize, and this fact has been used from time to time to predict future winners....
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Defending real data
May I suggest that David Trim (Letters, THES , December 12) has overlooked the subtle distinction between the human devastation brought about directly by the pro-religious (crusades, inquisition, 9/...