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"Reading for a degree is out of fashion, and has come to seem either a quaint affectation, or even worse, a flaunting of elitism by association. But the use of written aids to passing degrees is...
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News in brief
Transatlantic co-operationPM keen to boost exchangesUK and US universities should co-operate "at a far higher level" than they do, the Prime Minister wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal. "I...
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The last punk
Tara Brabazon on Peter Saville’s remarkable staying power at the edge of fashion
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Surveillance and the rights of the individual
New guidance clarifies the use of closed-circuit television
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Top 20 institutions in chemistry based on citations per paper
Data from Thomson Scientific's Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997-31 October 2007
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Praise for our Prospectus
Our Deputy Head of Prospectus Management, Angela Topping, was quick to respond to recent claims by the new Government-run student juries that some university prospectuses were "misleading" and "...
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A sunshine state of affairs
Florida's not all guns and gators, says Alan Ryan - it funds a liberal arts college
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Off Piste: Reality check
In the first in a series in which academics range beyond their area of expertise, philosopher Simon Blackburn proffers his top ten modern myths
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Guest leader: Focus on real access issues
Encouraging children to have higher aspirations will improve GCSE pass rates and help widen participation, says Steve Smith
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Paul Wheeler, 1966-2008
Colleagues have paid tribute to an "amazing" academic found dead earlier this month.Paul Wheeler, a senior lecturer in learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, had recently been...
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Oxford refuses to reveal ethnic poll findings
Consultation is part of university's drive to increase minority student numbers. Melanie Newman reports
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Burning questions for the RAE panels
Your research assessment exercise report ("Panels ordered to shred all RAE records", 17 April) does not bring out the real problems sufficiently strongly. If notes must be destroyed after 20 days -...
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Allow us to work past 65
An open letter to Bill RammellAs academics, mostly in our sixties, we consider ourselves active in research, teaching and administration. We have made, and can continue to make, a contribution to the...
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Diplomas are not a solution
It was unlucky that Claudio Vignali's puff for diplomas ("I'm sold on diplomas", 17 April) was published the same day as leading examiners Edexcel's damning report on the new qualifications. As a...