Leader: The centre will hold
Every time Universities UK holds its annual meeting, there is speculation about its possible disintegration. The organisation's critics (who seldom attend to voice their concerns) have long doubted...
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Allow beautiful minds to thrive 1
The British Association for the Advancement of Science warns that the research assessment exercise does not recognise the importance of the public communication of science ("Scientists want time to...
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Allow beautiful minds to thrive 2
Your article about the research assessment exercise and new academics is timely ("Young scholars lose out in RAE", September 9). It is essential that the RAE take account of the pressures facing new...
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Allow beautiful minds to thrive 3
As a former PhD researcher, I welcome the European charter and code described in Lord Sainsbury's article ("Be a good neighbour and share your bright ideas", September 9). The aims are admirable and...
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Ignatieff row 1
So, Michael Ignatieff is to join the ranks of those on the Left excommunicated for the twin crimes of supporting the 2003 Iraq War for humanitarian reasons and for attempting to initiate a discussion...
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Ignatieff row 2
Michael Ignatieff was once a socialist historian and an editor of History Workshop Journal . Later, he appeared as a liberal academic with views on morality in what was then the broadsheet press. Now...
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Justifying the means
The student satisfaction survey mean of 3.7/5 does not translate into a mean of 74 per cent, because the lowest mark was not 0, but 1 ("'Sexy' courses trail traditional in student poll", September 9...
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Conservation piece
The excellent feature on the conservation of Jeremy Bentham's auto-icon ("Radical pants and the pursuit of happiness", September 9) related the history of how Bentham's skeleton and clothes were...
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Language bursaries
I was interested to read your article on languages students having to pay fees for an extra year abroad ("Financial aid plea for language students". August 26). Aston University will be offering...
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Scientific revelation
Aquinas said: " Impossibile est quod de eodam sit fides et scientia " ( De Ver , XIV), which I would interpret as meaning that those of us who believe in the revealed truth of the Most Noodley Church...
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Campus pogrom
September 15 marked the 70th anniversary of the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws, which excluded Jews from Germany's universities. Before Hitler came to power, Jewish academics represented about...
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Tired not emotional
Thank you so much for the Top Tips on managing a tutorial ("Working knowledge", September 9). Although I can appear tired, in 25 years I've never had to hide drunkenness or boredom. But then, working...
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Unwelcoming UK
The puzzled tone that informs your article "Worries grow as Chinese shun UK" (September 2) is surprising given the widely publicised refusal of study visas to substantial numbers of bona fide Chinese...
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Runaway success
The new campus of the University of East London Docklands stands a high chance of being awarded the accolade of the UK's "all on one site, complete with student accommodation campus near a busy...
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Be afraid, be very afraid... no, don't
Frank Furedi warns that academics are helping spread scare stories in their bid to exert influence and gain funds from states with fear-based agendas Academics often criticise politicians for...