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As free as a cabbage
Free to Die for their Country - Order of the President
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...and the Earth had one tongue
Language in Danger - The Power of Babel - Speak
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Trio who shunned a life of privilege
The Three Roosevelts
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A critical chorus of black voices
Black Feminist Cultural Criticism - Black Feminist Reader
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Even greats liked to make the flesh creep
Shadows in the Attic
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Locked in free market's embrace
India Unbound
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Laurie Taylor Column
Modularity is a sham. It transforms knowledge into a commodity - Bob Brecher, THES June 7 Maureen. Why is there this big question mark on the finals mark sheet next to Janet Gardiner? She's got...
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Leader: Europe needs research council to take on US
The European Union has always realised that research is a contributor to economic success and a machine for creating a community spirit. But its research spending has been largely confined to the...
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Leader: Academe must heed hidden message of 9/11
Only a few weeks ago, British higher education was celebrating a big increase in the number of applications from overseas students. No matter what difficulties there might be with prime minister Tony...
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Bite back at bite-sized 1
Modules were introduced into higher education in the UK via the Open University, not directly from the US as Bob Brecher asserts ("Fast food is no substitute for an intellectual feast", THES , June 7...
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Bite back at bite-sized 2
To blame the death of intellect on modularity is interesting but wrong. The culprit is the semester. Forcing the curriculum and assessment into 15-week chunks leads to atomisation and discontinuity....
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Illogical logic
Ian McDonald's article (Features, THES , June 7) contains a blinding self-contradiction. He argues that science and argument have discredited "scientific" racism. And then he talks about attempts to...
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Showing support 2
As academics at an Israeli university we have been associated with Middlesex University for 18 months, and have come to respect the initiatives, efforts and hard work invested by Ken Goulding and his...
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Showing support 3
While I do not support an academic boycott of Israeli universities (Letters, THES , June 7), it has been impossible to conduct my own long-standing academic links with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip...