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  1. Published this week

    ART AND DESIGN- Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe: An Interdisciplinary ViewEdited by Cordula van Wyhe, lecturer in the history of art, University of York. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN...

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  2. From where I sit - Negative on affirmative action

    Divisions over positive discrimination, which has long been a bone of contention in Indian higher education, were again highlighted by a recent petition that questioned the expulsion of 12 students...

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  3. 'We're not hiding anyone' - official

    "We absolutely deny any suggestion of concealment." That was the bold assertion by Brian Bryan, our Deputy Head of RAE Strategy, when confronted last week with the news that 74 academic staff had...

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  4. Spreading corps values

    Felipe Fernández-Armesto on Teach for America's force for educational good

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    #Felipe Fernandez Armesto
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  5. Off Piste: Property magnet

    Moving house is the perfect way to begin a new chapter of your life, says Mary Warnock, even if those around you think you're mad

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    #Off Piste

  7. Caroline Thomas, 1959-2008

    Caroline Thomas, a leading authority on the global politics of development - and a former deputy vice-chancellor (education) at the University of Southampton - has died after a long illness.Professor...

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  8. Universities have vital role in CAM research 1

    So where are all the "critically thinking", "research-minded" graduates from 40 complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) degrees offered by UK universities ("Unwelcome complements", 30 October)?...

    #Letters

  9. Universities have vital role in CAM research 2

    There is a lot of mumbo-jumbo in some areas of CAM, but many, especially herbal medicine, have for decades been dominated by clinical and bioscientific approaches.Many such practices are evidence-...

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  10. Universities have vital role in CAM research 3

    Times Higher Education says that evidence for the effectiveness of homoeopathy "is encouraging for chronic fatigue syndrome only".We wish to correct this assertion and point out that there are eight...

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  11. History of stupidity 1

    I was interested to read that falling standards date from 1997 ("Keep it stupid, simple", 23 October). I suspect that such alleged instances simply come to light more easily in these times of...

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  12. History of stupidity 2

    There are only three, but why are the images accompanying the article about dumbing down all of young women? The first, inevitably, suggests "dumb blonde".Incidentally, the comment you attribute to...

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  13. Late risers will still pay

    The assertion in the article on the 5 per cent pay increase is in need of clarification ("Staff denied full pay rise at two institutions", 23 October).The Universities and Colleges Employers...

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  14. Pay spines and pensions

    So, university managements do not want to give staff a pay increase, but do want to retain the final-salary pension scheme in which they are all members ("Employers want to retain final-salary...

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  15. Confident about risks

    Contrary to the impression given by the story "Business-facing project 'high risk'" (30 October), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) is delighted to be investing in the large-...

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