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  1. Bryan Jennett, 1927-2008

    Bryan Jennett, a pioneering and controversial professor of neurosurgery, died on 26 January aged 81.Professor Jennett, who was head of neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow for 23 years, invented...

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  2. The humanities are vital for humanity 1

    The question of the "crisis" in the humanities raised in the cover story and the leader ("Soul searching"; "Blasting the rust off the canon", 14 February) gave a familiar name to those supposedly "...

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  3. The humanities are vital for humanity 2

    Some of the gloomy perspectives outlined in your article on the state of the humanities were not ones I recognise from the frequent visits I make to higher education institutions. This is an exciting...

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  4. Too taxing an idea? 1

    It is perhaps unsurprising that the Confederation of British Industry mistakenly sees market-driven commercial product development as central to the ethos of a publicly funded university ("Tax threat...

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  5. Too taxing an idea? 2

    I have long had doubts that third-stream funding could be a proper use of monies that, according to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 s.65, should be used only to support teaching and...

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  6. No pressure to merge

    I would like to reassure Welsh readers that mergers or acquisitions are not part of the remit of the new strategic collaboration board announced last week by the Welsh Education Minister, Jane Hutt,...

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  7. Spurious statistics 1

    The Cranfield study of correlations between 2001 RAE scores against citation counts ("REF will topple RAE stars, report warns", 14 February) is less valuable than it could have been, as it was based...

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  8. Spurious statistics 2

    Your report reveals all too well what happens when scientific research citations are diverted into a new role as data for the subsequent allocation of funding ("Researchers may play dirty to beat REF...

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  9. We do things by the book

    Your report did not quite capture the mood of the Publishers' Association conference ("Illegal downloading among threats to textbook sales", 14 February). All parties - lecturers, authors, learning...

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  10. Don't write off young talent

    I was amused and irritated to read David Abulafia's remarks about the folk with decent 2:1s and no realistic hope of an academic career hankering after a PhD ("Cambridge asks questions of its many...

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  11. Violence reaction

    Julian Baggini in his review of Slavoj Zizek's Violence (Book of the Week, 14 February) accuses Zizek of over-egging the paradoxical pudding and being a living paradox. A further paradox missed by...

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  12. Business divisions

    A record number of university managers are being hired from outside higher education. But does their commercial verve sit well with the unique academic ethos? Hannah Fearn reports

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  13. Senior service

    The thirst for knowledge does not end at 65, and many academics find that retirement affords them the freedom to be more productive than ever, as Matthew Reisz discovers

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  14. A hustler in two worlds

    'If I find out that the gang plans to carry out a murder,' the sociologist asked his supervisor, 'should I tell someone?' Sudhir Venkatesh tells Matthew Reisz about fieldwork Chicago-style

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  15. Swansea University, University of Chester

    Swansea UniversityAlan Finlayson, reader in the department of politics and international relations, has been awarded a grant of more than £100,000 by the Leverhulme Trust to investigate how...

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