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  1. Fellowships

    Cardiff University Honorary fellowships: Claude Allegre, French minister of education, research and technology; David Cooksey, chair of the university's Challenge Fund Steering Group; Ieuan Evans,...

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  2. First Impressions

    This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a novel by a religious Greek politician that was later turned into a film...

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  3. Was it worth it, Ron?

    One year after Ron Dearing published his report on the future of higher education, Alan Thomson asks him if he accepts the charge that its 1,700 pages have turned out to be a costly white elephant It...

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  4. Guru hailed as a world-wide Weber

    Worldly wise 9. The information age will widen the gap between rich and poor and erode the power of the state, Manuel Castells tells Martin Ince, on the Internet Not many academics would be upset at...

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  5. Paymasters blunt the cutting edge

    Mike Presdee tells Alison Utley how an Australian state government tried to suppress his research Academic freedom has always been under threat from some predator or other, but as universities...

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  6. Students lead the third way

    Campus radicalism never died it just got bored with party politics and found salvation in single issues such as animal welfare and rent levels Are students as radical as they used to be? In May, the...

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  7. Prescott directs drivers to the fee-way

    Is John Prescott on the right track by wanting to charge drivers to bring their cars into our congested cities? Kam Patel talks to academic experts about the first transport white paper in 20 years...

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  8. From persecution to prosecution

    Oxford academics are up in arms over government immigration policy. At their head is philosopher Michael Dummett, who argues that recent asylum seekers, including students fleeing persecution, have...

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  11. Speaking Volumes: The World Turned Upside Down

    On Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down Which single book has meant most to me, intellectually? The truest response, for anyone who retains pretensions to mental vivacity, is: whatever one...

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