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  1. Keep your Bunsen burning

    Academics addicted to a 24-hours-a-day working habit should adopt Sir Richard Doll as their role model. The 91-year-old epidemiologist - who was horrified when asked if he would ever retire (Goodness...

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  2. Who said 'quick fix'?

    Those who criticised the Treasury's ten-year science review for being a rush job may be changing their minds. For weeks, there have been excited whisperings that the big announcement by Gordon Brown...

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  3. It's a job to understand

    Rumour has it that Philippe Busquin, the European research commissioner, wants another four years in the job when his term of office expires in November. Perhaps even he needs some extra time to try...

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  4. Just add Bolly to lolly

    Who could say no to Bollinger? Lee Bollinger that is, president of Columbia University, who predicts that cash-rich Ivy League institutions will lure legions of Blighty's brightest students across...

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  5. Bring on Robo-Rooney

    No sooner has the England football team returned home from Euro 2004 with its dreams of glory shattered than the Open University has taken up the bid to win sporting honours in Portugal. It has led a...

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  6. Reunited: 15 minutes of fame can go a long way

    Jon Tickle studied physics at Leicester University in 1993-96 then found micro-celebrity on reality TV I used to play hockey for the university and still visit regularly - ostensibly to play the...

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  8. Red-letter day? Hardly

    The Bill is bad news for universities, but what did they expect after such a lame fight, asks Colin Renfrew As a university professor who happens to be a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords...

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  9. Don't argue, the buck stops here

    Traditionalists and modernisers must stop bickering and confront the learning crisis, says James Panton With so many demands being placed on the university sector, we seem to have lost all sense of...

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  10. Correction

    Due to an error in the editing process, an incorrect quote was attributed to Jamie Seymour, director of the Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit, in last week's Times Higher . The quote on...

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