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To see the stars in a grain of sand
The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author who invented a form of science-fiction writing that he referred to as 'logical fantasy': "...
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Beauty meets truth on the lab bench
Elegant Solutions
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Famous quartet reflected in a stream of consciousness
Four Elements
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Laurie Taylor Column
According to a new website, booksofcourse.com, one in ten books recommended to students by academic tutors is impossible to find - The Times Higher, April 21 University of Poppleton Department of...
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Alan Ryan
May 20 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill. Quite unimportant to anyone other than myself, it also marks the 50th anniversary of my first encounter with On Liberty. Faced...
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Leader: Be sure next step is no leap in dark
The Higher Education Policy Institute's report on the use of metrics to allocate research funds raises serious questions, not just about the proposals, but also about the whole process of abandoning...
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Leader: One voice is loudest
One side-effect of the debate over research assessment is to add to the turbulence surrounding the various institutional groupings. Just as Universities UK has found it difficult to represent a set...
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A degree of scandal and shame 1
Your headline "Students waved through final lap" (April 14) is an apposite summary of the scandalous proposals voted through by Keele University's senate in its misguided response to action short of...
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A degree of scandal and shame 2
So Keele University is trying to graduate students with incomplete assessments. More than 40 years ago H. D. F. Kitto, professor of classics at Bristol University, proposed the following system for...
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Why I'm for metrics
I read with interest vice-chancellors' views on the research assessment exercise's future ("V-cs add to RAE clamour", April 7). But surely it would be of interest to hear from those who will be...
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As easy as ABC?
I sympathise with June Purvis who finds a "white, male, traditional and Eurocentric bias" in the value placed on history journals in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (Letters, April 21...
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Give us a break 1
I was amused to read that the possible introduction of two-year degrees could "herald the end of the long academic summer holidays" ("Long summer break may be cut short by two-year degree plan",...
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Give us a break 2
The proposed two-year degree being touted by the Minister for Higher Education is seen as a solution to student debt. Why not a one-year degree? Even less debt to pay off. Better still, a degree on...