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  1. Leader: Fortune will favour the brave

    Changes ahead on the higher education horizon may prove the making of some institutions and the breaking of others

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  2. From where I sit - Bye Beijing, see you, Shanghai

    I was a little surprised to learn that Qi Yu, who graduated in June from Fudan University's School of Journalism, had chosen to work for a Hangzhou-based newspaper, The Youth Times.This talented...

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    #News
    #Opinion

  3. Bruce Williams, 1919-2010

    The vice-chancellor who steered the University of Sydney through the era of student radicalism has died.Bruce Williams, the son of a clergyman, was born on 10 January 1919 in Victoria, Australia,...

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  5. Ahead of the curve

    Advancing the frontiers of knowledge is at the core of the academy, but the crossing of established disciplinary boundaries is often resisted. How does a band of pioneers stake its claim to novel...

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  6. Disciplines of the world, unite

    Materialism has had its day. To understand the ideas that drive human activity, including economics, we need a new field that combines the arts and sciences, argues Deirdre N. McCloskey

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  7. End envious attacks of green-eyed chauvinism 1

    Thank you for "Sisters' winning formula" (30 September), which tackled the discrimination women face in the academy. It is refreshing to see that this important issue is gaining more visibility. It...

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  8. End envious attacks of green-eyed chauvinism 2

    Your editorial strongly supports Amanda Goodall's cover story demolishing any notion of innate differences between the sexes that can explain the glaring under-representation of women in world...

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  9. End envious attacks of green-eyed chauvinism 3

    It may be desirable, and even possible, to attract more women into engineering, although repeated attempts over the past 50 years have failed (review of Gender Inclusive Engineering Education, Books...

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  10. Formula for fallibility

    We found your summary of Jim Tomlinson's observations on the Byzantine processes employed by research councils particularly apposite given our recent experience with the Economic and Social Research...

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  11. Reopen channels

    We do not agree with all the arguments advanced by Darrel Ince, but it is clear that much has changed in recent months ("Pensions are safe if we don't stop working", 30 September). The Universities...

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  12. Stuck in the Dark Ages 1

    One need not cross the Atlantic for empirical evidence that "science versus religion" is a media-driven false opposition ("The dogma delusion", 23 September). Nor should there be surprise that a...

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  13. Stuck in the Dark Ages 2

    It seems strange for your editorial to evoke a battlefront between religion and secularism in universities while also drawing into the debate John Henry Newman ("The space for a spirit to know", 23...

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  14. Stuck in the Dark Ages 3

    So Archbishop Stephen Hawking has pontificated that God is not necessary to explain the Universe. He asks us to believe that the laws of physicists can now be enshrined in M-Theory - a Theory of...

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  15. Discord needs new tune

    Your report "Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 1 October) prompted comments online about institutions wasting money resisting employment...

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