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  1. A partial picture

    Selective quotation can be dangerous ("Wales wants governors not cheerleaders", 11 March). The Governance Review of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales does indeed say that, unprompted,...

    #Letters

  2. Proof is in the probability

    In his review of Dirk Schulze-Makuch and David Darling's book (We Are Not Alone, 4 March), Ian Crawford criticises the authors for claiming that we have already discovered extraterrestrial life...

    #Letters

  3. A slight oversight

    I don't know why (other than out of courtesy) Kevin Sharpe exempts Times Higher Education from his criticism of slight book reviews ("Caliban casts out Ariel", 25 February).In the new format "mag" (...

    #Letters

  4. What's in a name?

    It is ironical that a report from the Adam Smith Institute should advocate the abolition of public funding for higher education ("Taxpayer beware: the hidden costs of public funding's helping hand",...

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  5. Poor defence, after the fact

    Nick Petford's apologia for the misdeeds of Bournemouth University in the Buckland case cannot go unchallenged (Letters, 11 March).It was the view of the Southampton Employment Tribunal that...

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  6. Thanks for the memories 1

    Laurie Taylor's amusing defection from psychology to sociology states that Arthur Summerfield, when head of psychology at Birkbeck, displayed on his desk a stuffed rat, and implies that he was a...

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  7. Thanks for the memories 2

    Laurie Taylor's falling in and out of love with behaviourism makes a good story. But his recollection of Birkbeck is rather different to mine. I graduated there in 1961 and stayed for a PhD, getting...

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  8. Sir Kenneth Dover, 1920-2010

    A classical scholar celebrated for his pioneering work on Greek homosexuality has died.Sir Kenneth Dover was born in London on 11 March 1920 and studied at St Paul's School and Balliol College,...

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  9. University of Oxford - Cost of culture

    The Humanities Division at the University of Oxford is to be reviewed for the first time since it was set up in 2000. A five-year strategic plan published by the division identifies financing as the...

    #Institutions
    #News
    #University of Oxford

  10. The more, the merrier

    Our university has announced that it will be following in the steps of the University of Sussex and employing extra staff to handle the current round of redundancies.Speaking to The Poppletonian,...

    #Laurie

  11. Off Piste: An eye for the birds

    Joe Moran enjoys the pleasures of office birdwatching and notes the parallels with academic life

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  12. From where I sit (Canada): Tenure - nirvana for the lazy

    In my 40 years as an academic, I have never met anyone who is not envious of scholars because of the long holidays we enjoy.As I am primarily a researcher, my teaching load is just four courses per...

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    #Opinion

  13. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

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  15. The information hosepipe

    Kevin Fong on Twitter’s shift from dull celeb-zone to super-fast data source

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    #Kevin Fong
    #Opinion