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  1. Leader: High road, low road, cul-de-sac

    The SNP wants applied research to drive the Scottish economy. Can universities deliver without more money or a loss of quality?

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    #Opinion

  2. Michael Marland, 1934-2008

    Michael Marland, the author of a much-loved 1970s "survival guide" to secondary-school teaching, died of cancer on 3 July at the age of 73.Professor Marland, honorary professor of education at the...

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  3. University of Oxford - Godly gift aims to build bridges

    Thanks to a benefaction of £2.5 million, the University of Oxford has created a new chair in the study of Abrahamic religions. It will be filled for the start of the 2009-10 academic year. George...

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  4. We can make our job the cat's whiskers

    Once again ߣߣÊÓƵ is engaging in the challenges and complexities of leading and managing as a middle manager - the profession of herding cats ("The in-betweeners", 10 July).I am a...

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  5. Not all back UCU on Israel 1

    It is undoubtedly extreme for Baroness Deech to recommend that universities derecognise the University and College Union for the motion passed at its last conference on links with Israeli...

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  6. Not all back UCU on Israel 2

    Baroness Deech accuses the UCU of being racist and unprofessional in asking academics to consider the moral and political implications of their links with Israel.The Israeli occupation is extremely...

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  7. Strange role model

    Reading John Summers's account of the horrors of teaching at Harvard University ("All the privileged must have prizes", 10 July) reminded me of how strange it is that this is the university whose...

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  8. NSS success at Sussex

    While I am aware that Daniel Vockins, the outgoing president of the University of Sussex student union, opposes the National Student Survey, he has failed to notice how the survey results have been...

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  9. Debate must remain public

    Geoffrey Alderman throws down a gauntlet to the chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency over the external examiner system (Letters, 10 July).The QAA has had a procedure for "handling causes...

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  10. Chomsky shuns conspiracy

    Andreas Hess, in his review of Sheldon Wolin's Democracy Incorporated (Books, 10 July), argues that Wolin "does not believe in American conspiracies (as Chomsky does)".Such a throwaway comment leaves...

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  11. Green is not the new red 1

    A nice juxtaposition: a league table showing incremental progress on environmental improvements in UK universities and a review of a book demanding "collective revolutionary action on the scale of...

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  12. Green is not the new red 2

    In the People & Planet Green League, Royal Holloway, University of London, was awarded a "third" ("Green shoots", 3 July). This ranking was incorrect, as the institution has a full-time rather...

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  13. Running on empty

    As every academic knows, the competition for grant funding is intense. At any one time the average UK academic might expect to hold a single research council grant. I wonder then how the full...

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  14. Add value with your support

    As a recently retired director of the Institute of Historical Research within the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, I read with dismay Edward Chaney's and Kevin Sharpe's responses...

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  15. Another male preserve?

    It is more than six months since ߣߣÊÓƵ adopted its new format and introduced an obituaries section. During this time, the life of only one female academic has been written about. Do...

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