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  1. Ian McEwan

    Editor: Sebastian Groes Edition: FirstPublisher: ContinuumPages: 153Price: £14.99ISBN: 9780826497220Why is there a Foreword by Matt Ridley? The man is a scientist and former chairman of Northern Rock...

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  2. Literature roundup

    The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia PlathAuthor: Jo GillEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 168Price: £10.99ISBN: 9780521686952This text offers an inclusive guide to Plath’s...

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  3. What Were the Crusades?

    Author: Jonathan Riley-SmithEdition: FourthPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 136Price: £14.99ISBN: 9780230220690A fourth edition, 32 years after the first, is a tribute to the merits of this...

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  4. Running battles on the governance front line 1

    Following the usual paeans of praise for academic independence in these pages, I would like to point out the unacknowledged administrative costs involved.There are four administrators to every doctor...

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  5. Running battles on the governance front line 2

    The subject of university governance is high on the agenda. It is clear to me that changes to increase the influence of lay members on governing councils instituted by the Higher Education Funding...

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  6. Running battles on the governance front line 3

    The letter from a group of 185 academics concerned about the way "voluntary" redundancies appear to be "engineered" raises an important point (Letters, 10 September). In the voluntary casework I do,...

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  7. Devil in the details

    The practice of awarding marks for attendance ("Thanks very much for coming: you shall be rewarded", 10 September) may offer more support for providing employers with a detailed breakdown of...

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  8. Spelling it out

    I enjoyed the feature on George Orwell written by my colleague at the University of Texas, Tom Palaima ("1984: it's coming", 3 September), but I would like to make one pointed clarification.Palaima...

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  9. Mind your tongue

    What an unpopular chap Raphael Salkie is likely to be around the University of Oxford ("Strange death of Oxford linguistics", August). He begins his gracious, intelligent and even-tempered discussion...

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  10. Back to school

    There are many problems with what Richard Austen-Baker says about teaching in schools and universities (Letters, 10 September).First, the idea that school teaching is simply meant to "maximise...

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  11. Why the cradle fell

    The nursery that was closed in June at the University of the West of England was the smaller of two ("Union fights for campus creches", 10 September). It was situated in one of the smaller campuses...

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  12. Actually, it was here first

    Your news item states that the University of Nottingham's Samworth Academy is the first academy to be sponsored by a university ("Take them higher", 10 September). The Merchants' Academy, jointly...

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  13. Practise what you preach

    You say that education suffers because teaching gets no respect (Leader, 10 September). This must change, and academics must start with themselves, you add. I find it lamentable that Times Higher...

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  14. Save the children

    Initial responses to my research on paedophilia originally led me to conclude that there is no consensus among academics on the harmfulness of adult sexual contact with children ("Paedophilia...

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  15. My eureka moment: A breath of fresh air

    Standing on the Old Man of Coniston in Cumbria, Jonathan Bate clearly saw how the Romantics laid the foundations of modern ecocriticism

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