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  1. Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry

    The modern academy’s Department of English has fractured the voice of modern American poetry: one voice for poems, another for discussion. T.?S. Eliot could moan about not being Prince Hamlet, claim...

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  2. Slash funding red tape to deliver real 'impact' 1

    I note the following variously expressed views in your 10 December issue: i) the impact of some research is more obvious to gauge or imagine than others; ii) most research is likely to have an impact...

    #Letters

  3. Slash funding red tape to deliver real 'impact' 2

    My colleague at the University of Sheffield Tim Birkhead (who I do not know personally) has highlighted a major problem in academia - grant application and reviewing processes. However, the solution...

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  4. Slash funding red tape to deliver real 'impact' 3

    Last week I gave a one-hour talk at a British university. To be paid for my time, I have to complete six separate forms and take my passport in person back to the university, some 60 miles from where...

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  5. Profit and loss

    Coming from a commercial background into higher education, the ongoing argument about impact reminds me of similar ones about profit ("REF rivals square off over value of impact proposal", 10...

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  6. Scientific method 1

    Martin Cohen's article "Beyond debate?" (10 December) deserves some comment. The author's logic and judgment of things scientific can be read from his comment: "how rational is it to pass laws...

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  7. Scientific method 2

    I would ask the politicians queuing up to criticise University of East Anglia scientists in the wake of the "Climategate" incident to take a long, hard look in the mirror before proceeding further...

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  8. Women's work

    Elizabeth Hoult is quite right to argue that learning needs to be reconceptualised in order for all students to gain the best possible experience ("Let feminine side of learning thrive", 10 December...

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  9. Long wait for instructions

    Your excellent piece on teaching rewards is both timely and useful ("Pedagogy a poor second in promotions", 10 December). Clearly, very few academics would challenge the fact that good-quality...

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  10. Czech facts

    "The mythbuster", your article on Mary Heimann's new book about 20th-century Czechoslovakia, itself contains myths (3 December). From it, readers may assume that since 1978 there has been no work by...

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  11. No such thing as free study

    According to Edward Dutton, one of the many good qualities of higher education in Finland is the fact that it is still free ("Finns, they are a-changin'", 10 December). Sadly, there never has been...

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  12. Economic model

    Oh dear. In the book review "Out of nowhere into the limelight" (12 November), Natalie Gold claims that: "In Economics Is a Serious Subject (1932), (Joan Robinson) argued that economists should use...

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  13. David Nokes, 1948-2009

    A leading authority on 18th-century literature, who took his subject to a wide audience through television adaptations and acclaimed biographies, has died.David Leonard Nokes was born on 11 March...

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  14. University of Oxford - Poetic justice

    A new professor of poetry is to be elected at the University of Oxford, with the successful candidate scheduled to be in post in autumn 2010. An election was held earlier this year but the winning...

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  15. A very special lunch

    One of the university's best-loved traditions was revived last week in the snack bar of Michael Gove College when some of our most senior administrative staff reversed their usual roles and spent...

    #Laurie