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  1. Click to communicate

    Cardiff Business School's advert for a lectureship in leadership skills is conspicuous for stating that "the ability to communicate effectively with excellent PowerPoint presentation skills is...

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  2. Radical recruitment

    The news that Luton University has plans "to grow staff" is amazing ("Pay deal could mean job cuts", June 9). Should Les Ebdon be shortlisted for a Nobel prize? Crispin Partridge Hertfordshire

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  3. Naive, not unethical

    I am among the very few people to know both Arpad Pusztai and Andrew Wakefield personally. From my limited knowledge of them, I believe both to be men of integrity. But that does not excuse their...

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  4. Missing table leg?

    The article "Change in rankings as expert group sets principles" (June 9) states that recent rises in participation have been attributable to women. That is only half the story. A major driver has...

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  5. Israel's fair funding

    In his response to my opinion piece about the Natfhe boycott of Israeli universities (May 26), David Lehmann claims that Israel discriminates in funding against Arab schools (Letters, June 2). He is...

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  6. Fight for free speech

    Even at the highest level in higher education, the notion of academic freedom is often profoundly misunderstood. Academic freedom is freedom granted against work that falls within a given discipline...

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  7. Take one 'uni in a box' and add a pioneer spirit

    Despair over Africa is common, but a school for entrepreneurs offers school-leavers hope, says Richard Branson Millions of African children do not get the chance to go to primary school, and...

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  8. The decidedly narrow world of Britain's broadsheets

    A Sutton Trust report has highlighted a significant Oxbridge bias in an industry with more influence than most. Lee Elliot Major reports This is a tale of such deep-rooted social inequality that it...

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  9. Dispute is dead, but pain lives on

    Resentment still lingers among staff whose vice-chancellors took a hard line on pay docking, says Anna Fazackerley It was a terrifying letter to read over the breakfast table. "I have arranged with...

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  10. Check it out, and don't bother returning it

    Technological changes challenge the raison d'être of research libraries. Stephen Phillips meets a man trying to ensure their long long-term future Brian Eno has enjoyed success at the cutting edge of...

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  11. Some magic to fill a spiritual void?

    Former tree-dweller Andy Letcher shares his passion for psychedelic fungi with Mandy Garner Andy Letcher is scared of heights - not a great qualification for living 25m up a tree for three months....

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  12. For equality, apply gold standard to all

    The worth of a degree should not be judged by institutional prejudice A friend of mine noted that the best way to avoid being chatted up by a "boatie" in Cambridge was to mention that you attended...

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  14. Agenda of the Research Working Party, 19 June 2006

    Brussels, 14 Jun 2006 Full text of Document 2177/06 1. 7th Framework Programme (EC): ­ Examination of European Parliament amendments 2. A.O.B. [Public Info Net automatically generates links...

  15. More science needed on TV, says panel

    Brussels, 14 Jun 2006 According to a Eurobarometer poll, television is the number one preferred information source among Europeans for staying in touch with the latest scientific developments. It is...