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  1. The Pick - Notes and Letters

    Notes and LettersLondonHow and what does music manage to communicate - and how far can the process be described in words? Does contemporary physics confirm ancient ideas about "the music of the...

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  2. Our logo: shock announcement

    In a "shock announcement", our Deputy Director of Logo Development, Roger Placement, has confirmed that Poppleton will abandon its current logo.At a hastily convened press conference in the atrium of...

    #Laurie

  3. No creative spark in big bang funding

    I doubt that I am the only reader who noted a particularly cruel juxtaposition in the 29 September issue of Times Higher Education. On the one hand was John Martin's well-argued critique of the lack...

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  4. Doubt thou the star? (1 of 2)

    The argument that William Shakespeare was not the prime author of the plays attributed to him has absolutely no basis in historical fact. No documents from the period provide any evidence of an...

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  5. Doubt thou the star? (2 of 2)

    I once read a (possibly apocryphal) story that a scholar who believed that Sir Francis Bacon had written the works of Shakespeare once tried to convince the critic Cyril Connolly that the son of a...

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  6. Democratic deficit

    Having spent 10 days in jail for unfurling a banner, Edd Bauer, vice-president for education at the University of Birmingham Guild of Students, has been suspended from his post as a democratically...

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  7. Oversight is essential (1 of 2)

    You report that hundreds of independent UK colleges recruiting mainly students from abroad "may go bust" as a result of the changes to the student visa system and the cost of educational oversight ("...

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  8. Oversight is essential (2 of 2)

    "Bleak vision for student imports due to lack of 'oversight'" provided a much-needed focus on the damage caused to UK further and higher education by recent changes to the student-immigration route....

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  9. Power of the medieval purse

    Further to Miri Rubin's analysis ("Sources of illumination", 29 September), medieval universities may have other lessons to teach us.During its early development in the 12th and 13th centuries, the...

    #Letters

  10. Class citations (1 of 2)

    It was a relief to read Andrew Oswald's article on the research excellence framework ("Data be damned: REF's blueprint for systemic intellectual corruption", 22 September).I am among a small group of...

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  11. Class citations (2 of 2)

    Andrew Oswald is right to decry the banishment by many REF panels of data such as citations. No doubt some will respond by pointing to the pilot study that compared the results of peer review with...

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  12. Forever English

    I see that Ludwik Finkelstein of City University London has died (Obituary, 29 September). I have a Finkelstein story.He was at a meeting in Wales, and introductions were being made."This is Mr Evans...

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  13. TV review: Shirley

    The embodiment of sex appeal, Shirley Bassey's sheer vitality obscures her self, says Gary Day

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  14. Film review: Everything Must Go

    Bringing comedy into the tale of a man whose suburban life falls apart doesn't work for Duncan Wu

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  15. Ralph Steinman, 1943-2011

    When Ralph Steinman was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his doctors were in the unusual position of being able to use their patient's research to prolong his life.Professor Steinman, who was named...

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