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  1. Industry clouds blue skies

    In days gone by, telecommunications firm AT&T gave its researchers 5 per cent of their time for blue-skies research. One outcome of this enlightened policy was the laser. When will British...

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  2. Entrenching tribalism

    Robin Hambleton is right to say that the research assessment exercise is myopic ("Scholarship is multifaceted, but the RAE is blind to its richness", 19 March). However, its biggest flaw is its...

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  3. Sense and nonsense

    It is ironic that the attitude of some members of the Royal Society to Michael Reiss, its now former director of education, seems so unscientific ("Way beyond the act of creation", 2 April). When one...

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  4. Fresh food for parasites

    Alan Ryan cannot be serious in proposing an Ofqual for higher education (News, 2 April).Who in teaching and research is going to be willing to give time to the accreditation of courses on the...

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  5. Return to Christian roots

    The proposal to set up more Christian universities is long overdue ("Faith, hope and the academy", 26 March). Communism and capitalism, philosophies promulgated by secular universities, have...

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  6. Hasta la vista, grammar

    I think that I have discovered the explanation for what has become a common sort of grammatical error. It occurs frequently on Radio 4 and in newspapers from which we might expect higher standards of...

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  7. Brush up your Wodehouse

    If Stephen Halliday - or worse Steve Jones, whose book, Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England, he was reviewing (Books, 2 April) - doesn't know that the phrase about the ease of...

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  8. We must stand up and speak for the evidence 1

    In your articles on evidence-based policy ("I can't hear you ..." and "From the lab to the lobby", 26 March), there was a strong sense of frustration with politicians for failing to give sufficient...

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  9. We must stand up and speak for the evidence 2

    Your report on the challenges raised by evidence-based policy was timely. The problem is that as long as scientists think they can construct objective, absolute and precise numbers on risks ranging...

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  10. Another source of hope

    In his interesting article on rhetoric, Tom Palaima suggests that the title of Barack Obama's book The Audacity of Hope (2006) was inspired by Martin Luther King ("Tools of the trade", 2 April).In...

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  11. Bob Boucher, 1940-2009

    Bob Boucher, a mechanical engineer who became vice-chancellor of two universities, has died.

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  12. Off Piste: Passport to potter about

    David Abulafia maps out the pleasures and pains of travelling, from odysseys off the beaten track to bumpy journeys and egg sandwiches that recall aviation's pioneering days

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  13. Can't beat the real thing

    Tutorials are vital for a quality learning experience, writes Tim Birkhead

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  14. From where I sit - Knowledge first, theory later

    It is said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Actually, I think a total lack of knowledge is dangerous: a little, after all, must be better than none.Non-vocational arts degrees teach in...

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