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  1. Role of the dice

    Tiffany Taylor weighs the evidence of the importance of random changes in species development

  2. ߣߣƵn neutral territory

    The view from Down Under on what lies ahead for universities looks familiar, finds Roger Brown

  3. Red in peril

    Roger Morgan on how the liberal doyen Berlin blackballed Deutscher, the ‘intolerable’ Red

  4. Market misalignment

    The marketeers’ blandishments are reducing to ashes the pursuit of knowledge and the very idea of the university, argues Fred Inglis, who looks on their works and despairs

  5. News in brief

    Saudi Arabian scholarship programmeAmerica, here they comeHuge investment by the government of Saudi Arabia in overseas scholarships brought a flood of young Saudis to the US, an analysis suggests....

  7. Wise open space

    Minerva intends to reinvent the university as a global experience of elite education with critical thinking at the core. Chris Parr hears the plans

  9. Grant winners

    Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: David CassidyInstitution: University College LondonValue: £147,622Gravitational free-fall experiments with positroniumAward winner: Ingrid...

  10. Obituary - Dido Davies

    An acclaimed academic biographer who went on to write a series of guides to sexual technique has diedDido Davies was born on 5 October 1953 to a playwright and an eccentric actress and was brought up...

  11. Awards and promotions

    University of DundeeMark RobsonThe newly appointed professor of English and theatre studies at the University of Dundee has pointed to the post’s “enormous potential”. “The role that I’ll have at...

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    THE Scholarly Web - Telescopic theses

    “Where are all the dead people? The Black Death killed millions, so where are they all buried? I’ll find them! With maths!” This tweet, sent by University of Sheffield PhD candidate Alison Atkin (@...

  14. The week in higher education

    University Challenge quizmaster Jeremy Paxman has entered the perennial “dumbing down” debate by claiming that today’s students are cleverer than their predecessors. Mr Paxman, who has hosted the BBC...

  15. Letters

    A golden anniversary that does not glisterWe should give two cheers, not three, for the 50th anniversary of the Robbins report (“Here’s to class act that challenged tyranny of class in admissions”,...