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  1. Don't ditch lectures 1

    The BBC's decision not to broadcast the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures is disappointing ("Lectures might be ghost of Xmas past", March 26). For many children, particularly those from...

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  2. Don't ditch lectures 2

    When I was shortlisted to do the Christmas lectures, I was asked what sponsorship I had and how my lectures would fit into the national curriculum. Well, I wanted to enthuse children with the...

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  3. Don't ditch lectures 3

    The Christmas lectures have suffered from media dumbing down. Whether this slump is led by the scientists or the producers is hard to discern. But Michael Faraday, who gave 19 lectures, had plenty to...

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  4. Sister act

    All four of the doctoral students The Times Higher is tracking ("My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning", March 19) are women. Is this "girl power"? This confirms the point that...

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  5. Consciousness raising 1

    I was taken aback by Susan Blackmore's unenthusiastic review of Max Velmans' How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains? (Books, March 26). In discussions about consciousness, there are doers who...

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  6. Consciousness raising 2

    Susan Blackmore's ill-informed review lists one side of a debate on consciousness but not the other. Making sense of the causal interaction of consciousness and brains is puzzling but important....

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  7. A Gary to lift the day

    Gary Day's columns should be published as a collection. I welcome his wit, irony, comical accounts of absurd but all-too-real occurrences, and merciless focus on the ever-increasing distractions that...

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  8. NUS still united 1

    Bristol University has not disaffiliated from the National Union of Students as your editorial states ("Help the union to avoid last orders", March 26). A majority of the students who took part in a...

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  9. NUS still united 2

    Your editorial takes the decline in support for student union bars as a simple fact rather than looking at a social problem. If it is really true that students are drinking less, not only will this...

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  10. Toilet humour

    Queen Mary, University of London, has just introduced inspections of toilets before examinations. Will this practice become bog standard? Jeff Duckett Queen Mary, University of London

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  11. Drama isn't a crisis

    Reporting that "Sociology has an identity crisis" (March 26) suggests that it had a coherent identity. But there has always been vigorous debate about the nature of the subject, its boundaries and...

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  12. Don't dismiss courage

    Mo Dodson (Letters, March 26) should read your article "Animal tests 'upsetting but important'" (March 19) or see the video it describes instead of condemning the photograph of an undergraduate of...

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  13. Laurie Taylor column

    " The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education is to run a series of masterclasses for university leaders " - The Times Higher , March 26. Good morning and welcome. Let me say straightaway that it'...

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  14. Leader: Public mission is lost in hill of beans

    Once more economic arguments threaten to dominate the debate over the expansion of universities. On the eve of a second crucial Commons vote on the government's plans for top-up fees, much was made...

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  15. Leader: Aid blue-chip research

    The latest complaint against the research assessment exercise is that it is damaging British innovation by taking cash away from university departments that carry out research with a comparatively...

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