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  1. Benjamin Fisher (1963-2009)

    Benjamin Fisher, a leading expert on both avant-garde French literature and Welsh railways, has died.He was born in Birmingham on 3 September 1963 but grew up in Newcastle-under-Lyme close to Keele...

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  2. Academic knowledge must be socially useful 1

    Last week, Times Higher Education made a spirited defence of the importance of university research being independent of political or economic goals. The University of Warwick's Steve Fuller supported...

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  3. Academic knowledge must be socially useful 2

    Once again, Times Higher Education privileges the self-proclaimed Institute of Ideas, but "it is a bit rich", as Claire Fox puts it in her fight for "useless knowledge", to "whinge on" about its...

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  4. Academic knowledge must be socially useful 3

    The article on David Mitchell reminded me of the parallel Arthur Koestler drew between scientific creativity and the way laughter emerges when incongruous situations are brought together, a process...

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  5. Workers' dilemma 1

    The University and College Union's rejection of the 1.5 per cent pay offer for further education augurs ill for the consultation on the 0.5 per cent offer for higher education ("UCU FE members reject...

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  6. Workers' dilemma 2

    In his recent opinion article, Bill Wakeham urges employees and students to "understand the financial predicaments of their institutions" ("A united front for the future", 24 September). UCU has been...

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  7. Ripe for reassessment

    In his article "Objectionable content" (17 September), Gerald L. Houseman makes some telling points regarding Ayn Rand's Objectivist project. Citing her major novels, Atlas Shrugged and The...

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  8. Long-distance relationship

    Royal Holloway, University of London, and St George's, University of London, recently called off their year-long engagement, which promised the higher education marriage (and divorce) from hell ("...

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  9. Night of the long spoons

    It was interesting to note G.R. Evans' swift disowning of the term "partnership" when describing Oxbridge's relationship with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ("'Partner' is not...

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  10. Treason of the intellectuals

    It is sad and disappointing when vice-chancellors of distinguished universities choose to endorse league tables ("'Table of tables' offers sector clearer picture", 24 September).Quite apart from the...

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  11. Let's be realistic

    Of course industry and the academy should work together to encourage the transition of suitably skilled students from study to employment ("Sector split by CBI's vision of higher fees and less aid",...

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  12. We are not amused

    Opening your recent article on the research excellence framework ("It's evolution, not revolution for REF", 24 September), I was struck by Times Higher Education's determination not to let metrics go...

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  13. Deep mine of imagery

    Your item about the struggle between "a small group of British physicists" and Cern was revealing ("The week in higher education", 1 October). The report states that the Brits are building a machine...

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  14. Microcosmographia Administrativa

    F.M. Cornford published Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician in 1908. This tongue-in-cheek guide to academic life, while a masculinist affair, describes the...

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  15. The 'Elephant' in the hotel room

    Saint-Saëns and the sensual, curvaceous, exquisitely crafted creature that is her cello have restored Deborah Bowman's love of learning

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