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  1. Accentuate the positive

    Does knowing your personality traits help you lead better? asks Sally Feldman

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    #Sally Feldman

  2. Off Piste: Dope and glory

    The ban on performance-boosting substances in sport is a self-satisfied nonsense, argues historian Geoffrey Alderman in a fortnightly series allowing academics to step outside their area of expertise

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    #Off Piste

  4. Peter Carpenter, 1942-2008

    As an expert in fluid mechanics, Peter Carpenter's research took him into areas as diverse as butterflies' flight and the swimming of dolphins.After a degree at the University of London, where he...

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  5. Taking the HEA to task over accountability

    I am writing as a member of the Higher Education Academy academic council. I was elected in October as a representative of the fellows. My platform was highly critical of the HEA leadership. I...

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  6. Joined in battle 1

    Derek Attridge is absolutely right when he argues that criticism in literary degrees should be open to what he calls a certain "magic": that intake of breath at the unexpected, the requirement that...

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  7. Joined in battle 2

    It's bad enough that so many diverse fields of learning are increasingly subject to the crass positivism that masquerades as "knowledge" in modern culture. My own fields of psychotherapy, with its...

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  8. Read, and learn

    We have all had the depressing experience of seeing students picking up work we've conscientiously marked and moderated, glance at the grade, then drop it to the bottom of their bag, never to be...

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  9. Presses under pressure 1

    Your critique of UK academic publishers was an unsettling read ("Publish and be ignored", 24 April).You ignored the vast majority of publishers operating creatively to bring specialised books to a...

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  10. Presses under pressure 2

    Your one-sided attack on British academic publishing was a missed opportunity to examine the difficulties publishers face at a time when dwindling library budgets and low incentives for academics to...

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  11. Ruled by the bottom line

    If the Arts and Humanities Research Council will no longer support monographs ("AHRC to rethink project funding", 1 May), it might as well change its name to the Arts and Humanities Research Cull....

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  12. Birthday boy

    Congratulations to Keith Ponting (30)! I've been anxiously awaiting his birthday for many weeks and was wondering if he was just a journalistic invention, but this reassures me (The Poppletonian, 1...

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  13. Advisory capacity only

    As members of the clinical ethics service at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, we must challenge the picture painted in the article "Doing the right thing" (24 April).You imply that complex...

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  14. From brain drain to bright future

    Cambridge leads the field in producing Nobel science laureates, but many of the UK's best scientists have left to pursue work in the US. Matthew Reisz finds out from past winners what tempted them to...

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  15. Revolution is in the air

    Reform is widely felt to be overdue for French higher education, but its proponents face an entrenched and powerful universities system. Matthew Reisz assesses the appetite for change

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