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  1. From where I sit - Bumpy landings for parachutes

    A flurry of movement at the top ranks of universities in mainland China caught the public's attention towards the end of last year.Among those to move were Zhou Qifeng, former president of Jilin...

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  2. Staff drug shock probe

    A significant proportion of academic staff at this university may be using drugs to enhance their performance.This was the shock implication of remarks made last week by Doctor Fritz Itzig of our...

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  3. With no due respect, LOL

    Insults toasting on an open flame test Kevin Fong's post-Christmas spirit

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  5. Guest leader: Don't duck awkward truths

    Post-RAE, Bahram Bekhradnia calls for a renewed commitment to base public policy on evidence, not administrative convenience

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  6. Hugh Laddie, 1946-2008

    Hugh Laddie, an iconoclastic High Court judge who became a professor of intellectual property law, has died.He was born on 15 April 1946 and educated at Aldenham school in Hertfordshire before...

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  7. University of Oxford - Aboriginal remains repatriated

    Human remains are to be returned to Australia by the University of Oxford, after a request by the Australian Government and the Ngarrindjeri Heritage Committee. The three different sets of remains...

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  8. Similar game with different goals?

    Jon F. Baldwin offers a wonderful polemic repelling those who strive for a critical pedagogy ("A culture of excellence", Opinion, 1 January). Rather than focus on the banal, trite regurgitation of...

    #Letters

  9. Degrees of difference

    Jan Smit has it almost right and the university registrar he met completely wrong - an indication of some administrators' detachment from academe? (Letters, 1 January).The earliest doctorates were...

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  10. A number of errors

    I read with interest and some concern your article "Elite v-cs fear 'end of road' for concentration of research" (1 January). Unless I am very stupid, the numbers are totally incorrect.If we take...

    #Letters

  11. Ringing response

    Academics can often reveal so much when they believe they have to respond to a review of their book. Having been a book reviews editor for two academic journals, I have witnessed the insecurities of...

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  12. Mushrooming problem

    Peter Spencer-Phillips, vice-president of the British Mycological Society (Letters, 18 December), is correct to say that I was talking specifically about the critical decline of fungal systematics...

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  13. Silenced by hypocrisy

    Haidar Eid, from Al Aqsa University in Gaza, Palestine, was recently invited to give a keynote talk at an international conference on the nature of democracy, hosted by the Centre for Applied...

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  14. Early start for Aimhigher

    Peter Davies found that once exam grades were taken into account, for sixth formers there was no relationship between parental occupation and aspirations for higher education ("HE ambitions linked to...

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  15. Baby on board

    Increased government support for low-income families with children has coincided with a rise in births among those who left school at 16, a study by the University of Bristol has shown. According to...