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  1. Edinburgh, Hull, Swansea, Worcester

    University of EdinburghNigel Brown has been announced as the new vice-principal and head of the college of science and engineering. Professor Brown will take up the new post in September, leaving the...

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  2. University-of-Manchester

    University of Manchester   Pervez Ghauri has been elected vice-president for the US-based Academy of International Business (AIB-Worldwide) for a period of two years, becoming only the third British...

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  4. Our 'invisible' vice-chancellor

    Leading members of the university reacted with surprise to last week's news that our vice-chancellor currently occupies bottom position in a newly compiled table of the public profile of university...

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  5. The magnificent Sven

    Emulating a local hero was hard for Kevin Fong - but fees didn't make it tougher

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  7. Bryan Jennett, 1927-2008

    Bryan Jennett, a pioneering and controversial professor of neurosurgery, died on 26 January aged 81.Professor Jennett, who was head of neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow for 23 years, invented...

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  8. The humanities are vital for humanity 1

    The question of the "crisis" in the humanities raised in the cover story and the leader ("Soul searching"; "Blasting the rust off the canon", 14 February) gave a familiar name to those supposedly "...

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  9. The humanities are vital for humanity 2

    Some of the gloomy perspectives outlined in your article on the state of the humanities were not ones I recognise from the frequent visits I make to higher education institutions. This is an exciting...

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  10. Too taxing an idea? 1

    It is perhaps unsurprising that the Confederation of British Industry mistakenly sees market-driven commercial product development as central to the ethos of a publicly funded university ("Tax threat...

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  11. Too taxing an idea? 2

    I have long had doubts that third-stream funding could be a proper use of monies that, according to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 s.65, should be used only to support teaching and...

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  12. No pressure to merge

    I would like to reassure Welsh readers that mergers or acquisitions are not part of the remit of the new strategic collaboration board announced last week by the Welsh Education Minister, Jane Hutt,...

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  13. Spurious statistics 1

    The Cranfield study of correlations between 2001 RAE scores against citation counts ("REF will topple RAE stars, report warns", 14 February) is less valuable than it could have been, as it was based...

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  14. Spurious statistics 2

    Your report reveals all too well what happens when scientific research citations are diverted into a new role as data for the subsequent allocation of funding ("Researchers may play dirty to beat REF...

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  15. We do things by the book

    Your report did not quite capture the mood of the Publishers' Association conference ("Illegal downloading among threats to textbook sales", 14 February). All parties - lecturers, authors, learning...

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