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  1. Traditional values

    In our market-driven world, in which the ideals of common good are disappearing, Fred Inglis reminds us that it is the public universities that are in a pivotal position to protect our society

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    #Features
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  2. Presidents take on the gun lobby

    Post-Sandy Hook, hundreds of American college presidents are taking on the gun lobby. Amid the US’ increasingly febrile and evidence-free policy debates, does the campaign signal a return to the ‘...

    #Features
    #International features (World in Focus)
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  4. Odds and quads - 14 March 2013

    This slice of college pudding, dating back to 1897, is now in the archives of Oxford Brookes University. It was originally served at the notoriously frugal Westminster College in London, a Methodist...

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    #Odds and quads
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  6. Bob Welch, 1947-2013

    A distinguished scholar of Irish literature who was also an acclaimed novelist, poet and playwright has died.Bob Welch was born in Cork on 25 November 1947 and graduated in English and Irish from...

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  8. Cry 'foul' and give May the yellow card

    In his critique of the sector’s approach to student visa policy (“In the twilight zone”, 21 February), Simeon Underwood suggests that the National Union of Students is “inside the [government] tent”...

    #Letters

  9. Artistic assessment

    In “Opus versus output” (7 March), Nicholas Till asks, can artistic practice be research? “Original composition is research” was the mantra of composers on the research assessment exercise from its...

    #Letters

  10. Flaw show is not unique

    As Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone point out (“Primed, but not suspect”, 28 February), the chairs of the Levelt, Noort and Drenth committees tasked with investigating the fraudulent research...

    #Letters

  11. Summer kids in their ruin

    You report a BBC finding that Oxbridge admission processes prefer autumn-born candidates (The week in higher education, 7 March). The next day, The Guardian published an article headed “Summer-born...

    #Letters

  12. Uncle Joe said it wasn't so

    Vladimir Tismaneanu, in his appreciative review of Robert Gellately’s Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, makes the startling claim that “Stalin was intent upon provoking a...

    #Letters

  13. Site of condescension

    The new Times Higher Education website does indeed provide a much improved “front end” to access the publication. However, surely “Letters” should be immediately adjacent to the “Leader” section in...

    #Letters

  14. Grant winners - 14 March 2013

    Leverhulme TrustPhilip Leverhulme PrizesClassicsAward winner: Michael SquireInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £70,000The intersection between Graeco-Roman visual and literary culturesAward...

    #Grant winners
    #Research intelligence

  15. Stick your oar in or we'll sink

    By providing moral and intellectual leadership, university heads will help to protect the bottom line

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    #Opinion