What's really at steak
Has David Nibert never been in a field (Opinions, April 20)? The arguments he presents against eating meat relate to cheap US-style hamburgers, and I could not agree more that we should stop eating...
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Official criteria
It is indeed salutary to learn in "UK-style RAE taken on by Italy" (April 13) that officials will be barred from holding a post in a university or research institute. But to be able to "reward only...
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Research executive
The verb that describes what postdocs do (besides assisting a lot of teaching) is "to execute research" (Opinions, April 20). In grant proposals, the academic staff who will be paid to do the work...
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Plagiarism policy
Will the Minister for Higher Education ever take his head out of the sand? Bill Rammell's response to the increasing numbers of international students faced with plagiarism charges is wholly...
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Cold (war) comfort
The release of Cold War archives offers little insight into the fight against al-Qaeda, writes Peter Hennessy, but it does focus attention on the current parlous state of civil liberties in the UK (...
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Watching them watching us
With ministers deriding civil liberties to tackle an overstated terrorist threat, we need credible oversight of the security services, argues Stephen Dorril On November 24, 1974, after a series of...
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Blind faith
Why are some British academics so eager to deny the organised Islamist threat to the security of Britain, asks Anthony Glees On August 5, 2005, after the 7/7 and 21/7 bombings, Tony Blair announced...
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This is where the buck stops
Anti-globalisation activists and US academics may be united in their disdain for sovereignty, but it is still the most effective way to ensure that power is accountable, argues Christopher Bickerton...
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Distinct, not separatist
Scottish universities flourished before and after the Act of Union. And while they always focused on the nation's history, they were never nationalistic. Lindsay Paterson considers why The...
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Critical reader of the radical voices
Jacques Derrida