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  1. Intimidatory tactics

    As members of academic staff at the University of Brighton, many of us with close links to the University of Sussex, we are writing to express our deep disappointment at Sussex management's response...

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  2. Every second mark counts

    As the challenge to tertiary education professionals continues to soar inexorably, and as the resources to meet this challenge are systematically strip-mined by the government at every turn, an...

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  3. Sample of one

    Because life exists on Earth, Ken Smith claims, it must exist elsewhere in the Universe (Letters, 18 March). "Probability theory", he says, makes it "not merely improbable, but ... impossible, that...

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  4. Sad legacy

    What a poignant commentary on the Labour administration, 1997-2010 ("Ready for the storm?", 18 March). It started with the mantra "education, education, education"; it ended by decimating the...

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  5. Missing time

    It is an occupational hazard of statisticians to check columns of numbers compulsively. Thus, I noted with amusement that in the report on the Sodexo-THE University Lifestyle Survey ("Hard work,...

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  6. Ends and means

    Your obituary of Sir Kenneth Dover (18 March) is brief, but still finds space to quote Mary Beard as saying that his book Greek Homosexuality (1978) got "to the bottom of things". Beard admits this...

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  7. Robert Lee, 1959-2010

    A historian who transformed the study of the English rural poor, although he did not attend university until his mid-thirties, has died.Robert Lee was born on 30 October 1959 and educated at Thorpe...

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  8. One every 15 minutes

    "It's a designated bus." That was the forceful response of Roger Placement, our Deputy Director of Logo Development, to the accusation that he had been guilty of "nominal misrepresentation".The row...

    #Laurie

  9. Style dressed up as design

    Fashion is a highly trained craft, not a celebrity trend, says Sally Feldman

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  10. From where I sit: Reading the budgetary runes

    If India's economic policy is reflected in its annual budget, what does Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's budget tell us about the government's approach to education for 2010-11? Nothing big, the...

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    #News
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  11. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

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  14. University of York - Baby, you've got rhythm

    New research shows that babies are "born to dance". Researchers at the University of York have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech....