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  1. Vocation, vocation 1

    Michael Driscoll, Middlesex University vice-chancellor, says the only way the government will get people to take foundation degrees will be to restrict places on full-time degree courses ("Students...

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  2. Vocation, vocation 2

    Regardless of government funding, the decision to spend a gap-year doing voluntary work reaps rewards in the long term ("Cash for gap-year volunteers", March 19). Such students gain in maturity and...

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  3. Short on bright ideas

    How is the government helping young researchers on short-term contracts move to permanent positions? By introducing more short-term contracts in the shape of five-year fellowships (News in brief,...

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  4. Honest pay, please

    G. R. Berridge (Letters, March 19) exemplifies woolly thinking over lecturers and pay. The basic relationship between institution, staff and students is economic. No one offers their academic or...

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  5. Sleep soundly

    Your article on bedsharing, "Sleep easy with your baby right beside you" (March 12), is misleading. In selectively reporting what the Department of Health has included in an advice leaflet, you fail...

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  6. Farther figures

    Richard Rastall errs in his spherical trigonometry when he claims that he and his wife were further separated in Leeds and Dunedin universities than I with my wife in Christchurch and Vannes (Letters...

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  7. Inquiry still vital

    Enabling institutions without research degree-awarding powers to become universities will not damage higher education ("Breaking research link will 'hamper' funding", March 19). The new requirements...

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  8. Political tunnel vision is today's real terror

    In retreating from the world and politics, we all become more vulnerable - as the people and politicians of Spain have learnt, writes Bill Durodie The defeat of the People's Party in the Spanish...

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  9. 'I didn't want to make it easy for them to divide us'

    Ten years after the savage genocide in Rwanda, Fran Abrams meets a woman who risked her life by standing up for her classmates. Despite losing a leg, she never gave up on her dream of finishing her...

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  10. Spare-part factory or scientific saviour?

    Donor organs are scarce, but should we use xenotransplantation and stem-cell technology to fill the gap? Martin Ince looks at efforts to help clarify the ethical complexities arising from scientific...

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  11. Reflections of a razor sharp mind

    In a note to Isaiah Berlin, who died in 1997, Henry Hardy writes about the experience of editing the letters of the renowned historian of ideas, philosopher and essayist Dear Isaiah , At last, the...

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  12. The return of the body snatchers

    The shadowy trade in body parts has been exposed in the wake of accusations that UCLA staff have illegally sold cadavers donated to science. Stephen Phillips reports It's the modern-day incarnation...

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  13. Today's news

    MPs square up over fees bill Rebel Labour MPs will make their final attempt next week to force the government to abandon plans for variable tuition fees by tabling a radical amendment to the higher...

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