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Many animal tests are badly flawed, say scientists The real value of animal experiments is questioned today by a team of senior scientists who found that many are flawed and do not predict how well a...
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Laurie Taylor Column
TED ODGERS . The No-Nonsense Candidate. ODDS: 25/1 Mr Ted Odgers has been a lecturer in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Poppleton for the past 32 years. He is the...
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Leader: Academe's value must be upheld
Academics are far from alone in feeling that Government targets and financial imperatives are eroding the culture that gave their work value and attracted them into the profession in the first place...
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Leader: Move on from the RAE
Last week's Pre-Budget Report was going to bring down the curtain on the research assessment exercise and set a new direction based firmly on metrics. In the event, it did (at most) only half the job...
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Oxford dons find spot of colour
It may well be the most important decision that Oxford University has faced in its 800-year history - should the ancient institution allow itself to be governed by outsiders or continue as a self-...
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Keeping faith with free speech? 1
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, makes a brave defence of freedom of association and freedom of speech (Features, December 8), something the National Union of Students and its membership...
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Keeping faith with free speech? 2
Rowan Williams rightly emphasises the importance of free speech when considering the complex issue of the relationship between Christianity and sexual orientation. However, he is on weaker ground in...
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Keeping faith with free speech? 3
Why all this fuss about Christian unions? Most university student unions agree with the simple principle that all student societies must be open to all students. Discrimination - by sex, colour,...
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Keeping faith with free speech? 4
Your use of the "Christian union" ("Archbishop hits back", December 8) is wrong. The "u" should always be capitalised. A "Christian Union" is a group affiliated to the Universities and Colleges...
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The blame game
I agree that universities are setting themselves ambitious targets to recruit international students ("Overseas agent probe", December 1). I would add that in the process they are bringing their...
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Shaky introduction 1
While the proposal to give further education colleges the right to award foundation degrees - rather than relyJon the approval of a university - is a move in the right direction, it is flawed in two...
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Shaky introduction 2
Drummond Bone's comments highlight the sector's desire to maintain control of all higher education programmes. Foundation degrees are key to meeting the Government's desire for 50 per cent...
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Hard to swallow
I see that investors in Pfizer are stunned by a fall of more than £15 billion in the value of the drug company after trials of the cholesterol-lowering drug Torcetrapib were stopped. In clinical...
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Triumph over adversity
Stephen Heppell's article (Opinion, December 8) drew telling analogies between the current situation of universities and that of the 1960s and 1970s British motorcycle industry: lack of vision, lack...
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A case of class action
Malcolm Deas rejects my first-hand impressions of Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) as representing "genuine widening participation" with "high standards" (Features, December 1) and has...