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  1. To a T

    Re What are you reading? (Books, 15 May). Sir David Bell’s choice, Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life, could not have come from a more appropriate publishing house – Vintage.Peter B. BakerLondon

    #Letters

  2. Nothing to blush about

    This magazine recently highlighted the fact that Kinki University in Japan is anxious to change its name, and you invited us at Bishop Grosseteste University to consider a similar move (The week in...

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  3. Passionate style counsel

    Felipe Fernández-Armesto is annoyed by students’ ignorance of their own language (“Irrevocably tongue-tied”, Opinion, 22 May): they submit essays riddled with repetition, clichés, jargon and the...

    #Letters

  4. Ages of heaven and hell

    I retired from a Russell Group university on 30 September 2011, so was ineligible by one day to negotiate an extension to my career in light of the abolition of the default retirement age on 1 ...

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  5. Red heads

    Many subtle features of Eastern European authoritarianism have been adopted in the process of creeping Stalinisation by the managers of UK universities (“My rallies of endeavour will ensure the...

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  6. Union shutout is a cause for concern

    I read with considerable disquiet the letter from Sir David Bell, the vice-chancellor of the University of Reading (“Forum for the Future”, Letters, 29 May).Vice-chancellors do, of course, need to...

    #Letters

  7. William Cromie, 1930-2014

    A geologist who traded a life of adventure for a highly successful career as a Harvard science journalist has died

    #Obituary
    #People
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  8. Q&A with Paul Muldoon

    We speak to the Irish poet who is to take up the post of distinguished professor in English and creative writing at Lancaster University

    #HE and Me
    #People
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  11. News in brief - 5 June 2014

    Centres for Doctoral TrainingBath, Belfast join 115-strong teamTwo new Centres for Doctoral Training have been established under the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s programme....

    #News
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  12. World in brief - 5 June 2014

    United States‘Blender’ comment stirs ratings rowThere is growing opposition to US president Barack Obama’s plan to introduce a college ratings system, which is intended to lower the cost of study by...

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  13. Grant winners - 5 June 2014

    Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Gabriel Yvon-DurocherInstitution: University of ExeterValue: £290,658The molecular mechanisms of thermal acclimation and adaptation in...

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    #Research intelligence

  14. The week in higher education - 5 June 2014

    “As we say in science, England couldn’t hit a cow’s arse with a banjo.” This is a sentence that few would ever have expected to have come from one of the UK’s most eminent and famous scientists. But...

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  15. Promises and their limitations

    Trust in research confidentiality is vital, yet recent disclosures suggest the need for a review of safeguards for all concerned

    #Leader
    #Opinion