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The feature 鈥淲him and rigour鈥 (25 April) does not provide an entirely thorough analysis. It asks if the viva is still fit for purpose, so it should have examined in more depth its current purposes,...
The feature 鈥淲him and rigour鈥 (25 April) does not provide an entirely thorough analysis. It asks if the viva is still fit for purpose, so it should have examined in more depth its current purposes,...
In her defence of creative writing, Fay Weldon argues that our schools and universities need a new discipline called literacy (鈥淧ersuasion: teaching not the what, but the how, of crafting words鈥, 2...
Having been one of the few lecturers in the UK to have had an undergraduate in my care treated as a spy while backpacking in North Korea, I would like to comment on the BBC inserting undercover...
I have just finished your 25 April edition (I鈥檓 on maternity leave so I don鈥檛 have the time to tear through the magazine the minute it pops through the letter box) and Paul Magrs鈥 response to the...
Your assertion that private colleges seeking designation for students supported by the Student Loans Company will 鈥渆scape full QAA scrutiny鈥 underplays the thoroughness of the reviews that the...
Thanks to the Centre for Science and Policy, a constellation of UK research stars gathered recently at the Royal Society to hear Sir Mark Walport and others ponder 鈥渇uture directions for scientific...
Roger Morgan鈥檚 review of the late Eric Hobsbawm鈥檚 Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century (鈥淔ragmentation of a framework鈥, Books, 11 April) remarks on the historian鈥檚 鈥渓ong-held...
Janet Fluellen will not necessarily be able to claim a first for the University of Poppleton if the institution launches a course in creative history, although I would still encourage her to consider...

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Stephen Halliday on a forgotten tragedy of the First World War

Shelley King on asking questions, realist fiction and female subjectivity in Victorian novels

Robert Eaglestone on the experiences of a Holocaust survivor and how he rebuilt his life afterwards

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik on a study of the process of researching the Bosnian wars