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  1. Alternatives to privilege (2 of 3)

    Frank Furedi welcomes the debate initiated by A.C. Grayling's plans for the New College of the Humanities, arguing that academics need greater autonomy.He suggests establishing a liberal-arts model...

    #Letters

  2. Alternatives to privilege (3 of 3)

    So the New College of the Humanities not only has A.C. Grayling, possessor of one of the more interesting hairstyles in the academy, it also has the support of Frank Furedi, who as an ex-leading...

    #Letters

  3. Sacred meaning

    Religion is at the heart of our concerns again. Religious stereotyping provokes dangerous, even deadly, arguments, while in medical ethics, sex education, international relations and much else,...

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  4. Self-evident solution

    I'm confused. In a recent column in The Sunday Times, Sir Chris Woodhead, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, cited Higher Education Policy Institute statistics indicating that 35...

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  5. Hungry for simplicity

    Given the choice between a restaurant that described its product as "steak and chips" and one that went for "roasted fillet of Australian Kobe beef nestling in a Kent garden pea puree, temptingly...

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  6. Rising concern

    D. Nicolson asks if he/she is alone in being worried about the impact of the proposed indexation cap on Universities Superannuation Scheme pensions (Letters, 9 June). He/she is not alone, but not...

    #Letters

  7. Quick-change environment

    Guy Aron is trying to correct an entry in the online edition of an Oxford University Press publication and failing (Letters, 16 June). If it were open source (such as Wikipedia), he could make the...

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  8. TV review: A time to die

    For some with a terminal illness, their fear is not death but leaving the last bits of life unused, says Gary Day

    #Culture
    #Television

  9. Film review: Bridesmaids

    Duncan Wu struggles to see the humour in the story of a woman for whom everything goes wrong

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    #Film

  10. Ray Pahl, 1935-2011

    Despite being an academic for more than five decades, Ray Pahl "never lived in the ivory tower" and was known for his ability to apply his scholarly research to real-world issues.Professor Pahl began...

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    #People

  11. Appointments

    University of East LondonDusty AmroliwalaDusty Amroliwala was, by his own admission, a "late starter" in the world of higher education, but the former Royal Air Force officer is now evangelical about...

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    #People

  12. Odds and quads

    This is one of more than 400 glass jars containing human brains and tumours on display at the Cushing Center in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. They were donated by Harvey...

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    #Odds and quads

  15. From where I sit - Bowl out the 'Measurers'

    In the last days of May, the Australian government came to an unwontedly sensible conclusion in regard to its recently completed Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercise. It dropped the...

    #From Where I Sit
    #Opinion