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  1. Bursary to reveal diverse identity

    Helen Taylor's commitment to refugee causes gives her PhD in refugee studies at the University of East London the air of a personal mission. "This is a crucial field, especially with the negative...

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  2. Nobel path to medical benefits

    It came as a bit of a shock to Lisa Willats when, two weeks after she started her PhD, the men who pioneered her area of research, magnetic-resonance imaging, were awarded a Nobel prize. "It put a...

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  3. After the deluge, the real troubles begin

    A unique centre studying the impact of floods on people is at risk if funding is concentrated. Anna Fazackerley reports What happens to flood victims in the UK when the water levels have gone down...

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  4. Not much ebony in the oldest of our ivory towers

    Although ethnic minorities are overrepresented in higher education they are still thin on the ground in old universities, says Trevor Phillips, and top-up fees will only widen this inequality. Having...

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  5. All News Is Good News inside the 'image factory'

    On his first day, PR maven Ted Prince sees his boss turn the downhill slide of a French farce into a wild success. The first day in any new job can be a challenge. But it's especially daunting when...

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  6. The measure of imperial rulers

    Empires are built for a variety of motives -a quest for wealth, an urge to dominate, a wish to impose order on haphazard conquest, even a desire to do good. But, says Hugh Thomas, they do share one...

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  7. Publish and be damned 2

    So the Quality Assurance Agency has decreed that it will endorse the standard of degrees awarded by London Business School and Cambridge University only if the institutions act on its recommendations...

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  8. Incompetent boards

    If the government introduces baccalaureate-style diplomas, let's hope it investigates A-level boards ("Bac may force change to degrees", THES , October 24). Universities have to deal not only with...

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  9. Question of freedom

    Andrew Sanders complains (Letters, THES , October 17) that "academic freedom and intellectual depth in law school programmes are grossly compromised because of interference from professional bodies...

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  10. More Frank debate 1

    Frank Furedi's provocative article "Get rid of those professional stabilisers" ( THES , October 17) is a useful reminder that counselling and psychotherapy have come of age. As a member of the "...

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  11. More Frank debate 3

    There must be an awkward atmosphere at Kent, where the sociology department seems to have employed two professors called Frank Furedi. One is the Furedi who wrote that nice article (Men who juggle...

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  12. More Frank debate 4

    Last academic session, little more than a third of our clients came to counselling because of depression, measured in terms recognised by GPs, and anxiety, symptoms of which included phobic behaviour...

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  13. Outdated obsession

    Peter Lampl suggests Britain is being left behind in the science race (Soapbox, THES , October 24). In saying that Oxford's chemistry department has no Nobel prizewinners on the premises, he implies...

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  14. No claim on ambition

    Bill Durodié unwittingly illustrates one of the sources of the anti-American feeling that he hopes to understand ("The fear and self-loathing in Las Vegas", THES, October 24). When he claims that "...

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  15. More Frank debate 2

    Frank Furedi's professional references seem based on a single British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy press release dated June 2003. He misquotes a statement by me about the changing...

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