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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a surreal Ukrainian novel: "First, a stone landed a metre from Viktor's foot." * Entries, including...
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Under the skin of a savage view
Our Inner Ape
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Wood is good for the world
The Secret Life of Trees
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Our friends in very low places
Life in the Undergrowth - The Smaller Majority
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Long the last word - even if not adroit
Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary - Samuel Johnson's Unpublished Revisions to the Dictionary of the English Language - Dr Johnson's Dictionary - Johnson on the English Language
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The saints, syncretism and scandals of one sub-continent and two solitudes
Living Together Separately
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Laurie Taylor column
Each week The Times Higher is assessing the progress of the national pay dispute by reporting on the industrial action being taken by individual universities. This week, we visit the University of...
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Leader: Another bite at an old chestnut
At least once a decade, the old chestnut of two-year degrees is disinterred - and, until now at least, subsequently reburied. It happened in the 1970s during Margaret Thatcher's stewardship of...
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Leader: Now that's initiative
The second phase of the Prime Minister's Initiative on overseas students, announced this week, may be more than the sum of its somewhat insubstantial parts. Packing together a variety of programmes,...
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Quality is about more than cash 1
In the discussions on the Treasury's bombshell proposal to replace the research assessment exercise with a metrics-driven procedure, a number of important issues have been overlooked (News, April 7,...
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Quality is about more than cash 2
Suggestions that the 2008 research assessment exercise may be altered or replaced are ludicrous. To do so would offer endless opportunities for legal challenge about outcomes, because of procedural...
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Quality is about more than cash 3
Is there a shred of reliable empirical evidence that demonstrates that the research assessment exercise has achieved anything other than wasting large amounts of time and money (Opinion, April 14)?...
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Pay up and speak up 1
Your coverage of the pay dispute ("Local deals on cards as v-cs round on Ucea" and "Who will break first in the battle of the giants?", April 14) invites three comments. First, the employers should...
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Pay up and speak up 2
It is disappointing that in your overview of the pay dispute the viewpoint of the support staff unions, which represent more than half of all staff in higher education, is ignored. Unison, TGWU,...