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  1. An OBE for the soldier who fought the King

    How did a Russian Jew who was exiled to Siberia, lost family in the Holocaust and fought British-led forces for an Israeli state earn an OBE? Nick Holdsworth reports. Tears of mirth still spring to...

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  3. A new age school rises on the Tyne

    A partnership of state, church and university is relaunching a school in a deprived area of Newcastle. But will it work? Chris Bunting reports. Sprawled across a windswept hill high above the West...

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  4. Think local not global, small not big

    Communities such as Brithdir Mawr in Wales teach us that sustainability begins at home, says Larch Juckes Maxey. The very notion of a world summit of experts and leaders to "sort out" sustainable...

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  5. Head over heels 1

    You show two versions of Andrea Mantegna's The Dead Christ ("Brush-off for Hockney idea", THES , August 23). Christopher Tyler's has the head at a distance beyond the feet in contrast to Mantegna's...

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  6. Head over heels 2

    The closure of fine art at Lincoln University's Hull campus and at Hull University ("Art students flounder after school axes places", THES , August 23) leaves local students bereft of a degree course...

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  7. Question of support

    Peter Lumsden's response to the requirement on universities to make reasonable adjustments under the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Act 2001 (Soapbox, THES , August 30) is disappointing....

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  8. Down to witty gritty

    Andrew Mueller says that Culture in ߣߣÊÓƵ (Books, THES , August 23) lacks wit, style and is a missed opportunity for the inquisitive essayist. Quite so. The book, which I co-edited, is a...

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  9. Full Bethlehem story

    The rocket hole in the library of Bethlehem University that you refer to in your feature on the boycott of Israel ( THES , July 26) was probably caused during a skirmish between Palestinian gunmen...

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  10. Brown's bright idea is a bargain 1

    John Mace's negative comments on chancellor Gordon Brown's financial support for students from poorer backgrounds are based on a superficial analysis ("Education, education, too much education?",...

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  11. Brown's bright idea is a bargain 2

    John Mace questions whether subsidising students from poorer backgrounds beyond 16 is good value for money. I have been part of two research studies with colleagues at the University of York. One...

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  12. Brown's bright idea is a bargain 3

    William Keenan (Letters, THES , August 23) has got the wrong end of the stick. There is no contradiction between falling academic standards and the existence of talented students with high...

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  13. Cooke plan irrelevant

    The Cooke committee's message that by 2010 new teachers should have a teaching qualification is irrelevant. ("Teaching 'licence' for all new lecturers by 2010", THES , August 23). Many institutions...

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  14. Oxford equity adds up

    Harold Perkin says that Oxbridge dons are "admissions amateurs" who used to sneak preferential treatment to the children of alumni ("Selection correction", THES , August 23). He contrasts this with...

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  15. Where's wow factor?

    We are surprised that a routine announcement by Luton University about vice-chancellor Dai John's retirement next year at the end of his five-year contract on his 60th birthday should arouse such...

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