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  1. Masterclass in engagement

    From BBC Radio 4 to St Peter's, Oxford, Mark Damazer has worked to put scholarship in the spotlight. Matthew Reisz reports

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  2. In the nature of things

    Duncan Wu on the sheer delight of Arcimboldo's punning, painstaking and peerless portraits

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  3. Daytime TV: Losing everything

    Those who sleep rough have pasts full of pain. Gary Day watches a fight for survival in lives of misery

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  4. Diary

    LondonThe Train DriverAthol Fugard, probably South Africa's best-known dramatist, produced definitive exposés of labour conditions and miscegenation laws under apartheid in plays such as Boesman and...

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  5. The Pick - Under the influence

    High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and CultureThe Wellcome Collection, London, until February 2011"Every society", claims curator Mike Jay, "is a high society." A Cypriot "juglet" from...

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  6. Kathleen Jones, 1922-2010

    A pioneering historian of British mental health provision has died.Kathleen Jones was born in London on 7 April 1922 and won scholarships to North London Collegiate School and then to read modern...

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  7. Impact loses impact shock

    Suggestions that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has almost totally capitulated to its critics by substantially redefining the notion of impact have been hotly denied by Brian Bryan...

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  8. Arts and impact: with friends like these (1 of 4)

    The humanities may yet survive, if only they can be protected from their current advocates. The articles by Judy Simons and Rick Rylance ("REF pilot: humanities impact is evident and can be measured...

    #Letters

  9. Arts and impact: with friends like these (2 of 4)

    Although the coalition government appears indifferent to everything save the market, it has offered to concede one academic value: to his credit, David Willetts, the universities and science minister...

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  10. Arts and impact: with friends like these (3 of 4)

    I was one of the 13,000 academics who signed the University and College Union petition against "impact" last year. As it happens, my department was then selected to take part in the research...

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  11. Arts and impact: with friends like these (4 of 4)

    The results of the Higher Education Funding Council for England pilot, showing how the assessment of research's socio-economic impact can be incorporated into the REF, are to be welcomed. It is clear...

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  12. The choice delusion (1 of 2)

    We have now heard from both vice-chancellors who served on the Browne Review committee. Aston University's Julia King reassured us of the panel's "independence", but also revealed that it took full...

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  13. The choice delusion (2 of 2)

    David Eastwood complains that "much of the debate surrounding Browne has been ideological". It is perhaps to avoid being himself charged with taking an ideological stance that he casts the Browne...

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  14. Continuing standards

    It is ridiculous to have 50 per cent of school-leavers going to university because it means that we get people with below-average aptitude, ability or intelligence doing degrees ("The academy's role...

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  15. Peer review? Priceless

    Nobody, especially not a journal editor, would want to denigrate the contribution made by academics to the process of peer review. But to place a cost on it seems to miss the point ("Pay out then...

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