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Education minister grilled about fees MPs quizzed higher education minister Margaret Hodge yesterday about further and higher education funding and university tuition fees. Ms Hodge said there would...
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Holy burnt fathers and Catholic mummies
Nicholas Saunders praises a great scholarly effort that overturns historical prejudices in a fine reassessment of a continent .At the beginning of the 20th century, South America was the least known...
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Blood spilled in a struggle for oil
Ken Saro-Wiwa
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Watch what you say, Human Rights Act is no knight
Political Libels
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Will Justice trade in her scales for a mouse?
Transforming the Law
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Inspired beyond understanding
William Blake - William Blake: The Creation of the Songs - William Blake
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a philosopher-novelist with a passion for swimming: "Five hundred guineas!" said Mor's wife." The winner...
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Reconstructing the spirit of an age
Rebuilding the Reichstag
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Public martyr remains an elusive man
Frantz Fanon
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Laurie Taylor
That concludes the formal examinations business and it is now time for the external examiner's report. Let me thank our new external examiner for stepping in at the last minute after Professor Sidlow...
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Letter: Wales of protest
I am surprised by the bully-boy tactics employed against Dafydd Glyn Jones's paper ("Welsh snub 'sneering paper', THES , June 29). There is nothing "anti-English" or sneering about what Glyn Jones is...
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Letter: Islington subterfuge
I question Tim Leunig's statistic that only 72 students in six of London's poorest boroughs got more than 24 points in their A levels (Soapbox, THES , June 22). One of the six was Islington. But, as...
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Letter: Sign of the father
It would seem that it is not only the likes of Barthes and Derrida who misinterpret Ferdinand de Saussure, "the father of modern linguistics". He is also misinterpreted by those who castigate Barthes...
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Letter: We must reflect society we serve
Frank Furedi takes issue with Universities UK for seeking to attract people who have no current aspirations for higher education to university (Soapbox, THES , June 29). But Furedi manages to avoid...
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Letter: Segregation polarised
Andy Green and John Preston (Opinion, THES , June 22) say education is seen by the European Union and the Department for Education and Skills as a means of creating social cohesion. Their Centre for...