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  1. From where I sit - Free to succeed

    What is the recipe for making a world-class university? For such a complex endeavour, there is no simple or sure formula for success, but there are certain principles that I believe are of vital...

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    #News
    #Opinion

  2. David Whitmarsh, 1950-2010

    A world authority on the economics of fisheries has died.David Whitmarsh was born in Plymouth on 17 February 1950 and educated at King's College in Taunton and the University of Exeter, where he...

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  4. Bonfire of the inanities

    Times are hard and cuts have to be made, so let's start by putting an end to verbosity and all those mind-bogglingly long assignments, research papers and reports, writes Peter Lennox, succinctly

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  5. Sisters' winning formula

    Women produce fewer papers than men over a lifetime and are still scarce in senior positions, especially in science. Dispelling myths of innate difference between the sexes, Amanda Goodall offers...

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  6. Pensions are safe if we don't stop working

    Proposals to remove the retirement age should be good news for the academic superannuation pot, but Darrel Ince warns that there are downsides as well

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  7. When tectonic plates of knowledge collide 1

    "The dogma delusion" (23 September) clearly shows that the main clashes that generate "science vs religion" headlines are between simplistic forms of science and simplistic interpretations of...

    #Letters

  8. When tectonic plates of knowledge collide 2

    "The dogma delusion" is thoughtful and restrained. It might have been helpful, however, to consider the contribution of Karen Armstrong to the debate - as an ex-nun, and probably now an agnostic, she...

    #Letters

  9. When tectonic plates of knowledge collide 3

    "More light, less heat: institutions look to strengthen lines of communication about religious issues on campus" (23 September) discusses a number of practical issues for higher education...

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  10. Islands worth the streams 1

    Dame Nancy Rothwell's argument is not surprising ("Islands of excellence should not drain funding streams", 16 September). Like other Russell Group universities that have always taken the largest...

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  11. Islands worth the streams 2

    I have been following the "islands of excellence" discussion with some interest. In essence, there seems to be an objection to the centres of research excellence springing up across the UK, as...

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  12. Egalitarian mix

    In her review of my book Multiculturalism: Some Inconvenient Truths (16 September), Marnia Lazreg makes some egregious misrepresentations. First, nowhere do I perceive Muslims as being beyond the...

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  13. NSS result: unsatisfactory

    We discover from the National Student Survey that the University of Brighton is the best place in the UK to do philosophy or philosophy and history. As tutors in the humanities here, we should be...

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  14. Monarchs in the mirror

    Clive Bloom argues that "the Tudors provide a dream of origination and harmony" ("The six wives and nine lives of Henry VIII", 23 September). He is right in that Tudor history has long provided us...

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  15. 30 September 2010

    XX discrimination - Women’s underachievement in science is due to culture, not biology, and it’s in our power to change that