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  1. Terror report fears

    The report by Anthony Glees and Chris Pope of Brunel University on extremist groups operating on university campuses offers nothing to the serious debate about how to address terrorism ("Beacons of...

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  2. Scared to be sick

    There may be a more sinisterJexplanation for the lower absence rates for university employees compared with other public and private sector workers ("Academics' good health is not to be sneezed at",...

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  3. Double marking

    I can understand the need for top universities or employers to distinguish the best of the best from the rest and the ensuing debate on A-level exam results and the alternative options for assessing...

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  4. Old news on history

    Gordon Johnson's review concludes that Amartya Sen's latest book The Argumentative Indian 's "use of history is... unscrupulous and trivialising". (Books, September 30). Hardly a surprise since I...

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  5. Amen to the pursuit of truth and reason

    Folk beliefs unite humanity, while religious beliefs divide us. A. C. Grayling asks why we believe and pits intellectual honesty against the draw of the deity. Everything anyone does is motivated by...

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  6. The institute of bad ideas

    They knew what Robert Kilroy-Silk was really trying to do, they have all read The Da Vinci Code, twice , they plan to dine on Turkey Twizzlers tonight and they agree that the RAE should be given more...

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  7. It's curtains for the gadfly of the piece...

    Theory is dead, rejoices Mark Bauerlein, but it has dragged higher learning with it to the grave after years of dismembering our most prized literature. The Times Higher, though, finds that most...

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  8. ...but what a memorable performance

    Not so long ago, theory was an unstoppable revolution that swept through English departments amid heated debates and furious polemics. But a straw poll carried out by The Times Higher suggests that...

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  9. The changing of the guard

    A British study that revisited the 'Stanford prison experiment' for reality TV has outraged the US academic who inspired the work, says Harriet Swain For viewers, it was the unfolding power struggle...

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  10. Frontiers supplement

      Frontiers: research careers in infectious diseases Published in The Times Higher on October 7 2005 Introduction   Find your niche   Colin Blakemore advises all young researchers to consider a...

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  14. EU Court overturns Austrian law to ban GM

    Luxembourg, 5 October 2005 Upper Austria Region has failed to win its case at the EU Court of First Instance on the region's draft law to ban planting GMOs. The court found against the Region on all...