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  1. The humanities code (1 of 2)

    Jay Kennedy ends his piece, "My Dan Brown moment" (4 November), by decrying the impact of what he calls "outreach" on the humanities. According to him, such activities "are incompatible with the...

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  2. The humanities code (2 of 2)

    Congratulations to Jay Kennedy for attracting Hollywood's attention with his work on musical patterns in Plato. I hereby inform the studios that I have found in the Browne Review signs of madness,...

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  3. Non-native fluency

    Brian Bloch suggests that "non-native speakers are generally unable to write an acceptable level of English for academic purposes" ("Trips and falls of the tongue", 21 October).Putting aside...

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  4. In praise of praise

    You quote a lecturer complaining because a mature student sent them notes saying how brilliant they were ("Diaries of doom, gloom and anger", 4 November). What planet are they are living on? The...

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  5. Whistleblowers anonymous

    Academic freedom is deemed by the Hunt report to be one of the strengths of higher education in the Republic of Ireland ("Bad news travels slow", 4 November). Why, then, did the Irish academics who...

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  6. Novel ideas and life lessons

    Narrowly vocational higher education stripped of the insights offered by the arts and humanities, particularly literature, does students in all disciplines a lasting disservice, says Roger Lister

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  7. Leadership sans frontières

    Is globalisation becoming a reality in the academy’s top ranks? It’s early days, but there are signs that the barriers are falling as universities look abroad to find the best captains. John Morgan...

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  9. 11 November 2010

    Patterns of migration - The high-flying leaders who leave the nest in search of foreign challenges

  11. Are you having a laugh?

    @Lord_Browne gained a following by poking fun at UK higher education’s upheavals. Now silenced by Twitter, he tells Sarah Cunnane about real universities, the trouble with students and how many...

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