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How open attitudes shut out extortion
Sexual Blackmail
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That's no lady, that's my wife
Love and Dirt
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Students can gain degrees after taking only a third of their courses by paying universities to assess their life experiences" - THES, August 29 Yes, do come in. You must be Adam Bunting. Good. My...
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Leader: Twin aims call for informed debate
The government's twin priorities in higher education - to extend access to a broader range of students while enabling the top research universities to compete with the best in the world - ought not...
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Leader: BA excites enthusiasm
The British Association for the Advancement of Science, which meets next week in Salford, has a simple mission: to create excitement about science. The task ought to be painless enough in an era of...
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Wise owls help roos write
Winnie-the-Pooh is supporting a project in which professional writers give students personal tuition to improve their skills. Terry Philpot reports. The Royal Literary Fund, founded in 1799 for the...
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A whore's ransom
The 19th-century courtesan Harriette Wilson revised her memoirs depending on which of her aristocratic lovers paid for her discretion. That flexibility with the truth presented her biographer,...
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When is a call for alms a call to arms?
Muslim charities provide extensive humanitarian aid but, writes Jonathan Benthall, critics accuse some of straying into terrorist territory. Birmingham-based Islamic Relief was one of the few aid...
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From first bud, drug ban was a real hash
International treaties to curb cannabis trade and use have been built on the foundations of shaky science and imperial politics, writes James Mills. As British doctors prepare to prescribe a new...
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Bite-sized taster that leads up to full course
More and more academics spend the holiday period running projects to widen participation. Chris Bunting looks at the success of these schemes in the latest in our summer series. Robert Stewart was 17...
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Reality check
"Work skills? They're best learnt on the job" ( THES, August 29). What a surprise. This has been known since 1920 when the national certificate/diploma system started. The first scheme was supervised...
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Mature options
History lecturer Rowena Archer has not been made redundant as you report ("Hard-up Oxford college axes history", THES, August 29), but has elected to take a voluntary redundancy package. Nor does...
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Scant relief
What three months vacation (Features, THES, August 29)? How to fit three months between last exam boards (July 7-9) and resits (August 26-29)? Up to 100 students take resits and some return in...
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Poor pickings
Why do we have a visa system ("Home Office rejects call to ditch visa fees", THES, August 22)? Surely it is to control immigration and maintain national security. The beneficiaries are thus taxpayers...