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  1. Leader: Campus rewards stretch beyond the pay packet

    Education secretary Charles Clarke must have known he was asking for trouble when he put his name to a foreword that compared universities favourably with multinational corporations in terms of...

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  2. Leader: 'Grey-goo' scare stories don't merit new regime

    Technology often has unintended consequences that turn out to be bigger than the intended ones. But this does not mean that Prince Charles is right to predict that nanotechnology, which replaces...

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  4. Laid low by junk food and Jesus

    Colin Samson reports on the native Innu of Labrador and their battle to reclaim independence and dignity. We watched helpless from the shore as our motor-powered canoe floated off into Utshisk-nipi....

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  5. Dismal returns of micro-men

    Forget the low pay of its academics, economics is in trouble because it is failing to shed light on everyday dilemmas, argues Alan Shipman. Economics can explain the demise of wheelwrights, weavers...

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  6. Elegiac air honours more than lost lives

    It is appropriate that Elgar's Nimrod echoes over casualties of war in Iraq, writes Kevin Jones. As the war in Iraq ends, one of the nation's favourite elegies - Nimrod, from Elgar's Enigma...

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  7. Smears upon the walls are history

    Deborah Lipstadt argues that erasing Soviet graffiti from the Reichstag will also erase part of Germany's past. Adolf Hitler despised the Reichstag. He avoided the neo-Renaissance former home of...

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  8. Will new word order embetter us?

       'Sometimes that doesn't happen all the time' - the verbal chaos of America's president has baffled many people, but Alan Cienki finds linguistic logic in it. At a press...

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  9. 'Petticoats are no joke' at 30 below

    Using tarpaulins and potato crates, polar explorers staged theatrical works to save their sanity in the frozen darkness, writes Mike Pearson. Early in 1903, Lieutenant Michael Barne rigged his sledge...

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  10. No stars for RAE funding change

    We write concerning decisions taken by the Department for Education and Skills and the Higher Education Funding Council for England on the funding of research following the 2001 research assessment...

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  11. No stars for RAE funding change 2

    Daniel Hutto's comments on the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES , April 18) are misleading. A department that submits eight staff to the exercise, three of whom are internationally...

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  12. No stars for RAE funding change 3

    Will the Stakhanovite researchers of the future be required, like the former Heroes of Soviet Labour, to pin their stars to their breast pockets? Or will US-military style, with stars on epaulettes...

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  13. Out-of-step academia

    The idea that the intellectual standard of dance academics has somehow transformed the quality of the UK's dance culture is laughable ("Research cash loss to cripple dancing", THES , April 25). Given...

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  14. Fool's gold 1

    "Golden hellos" to recruit lecturers in shortage subjects ("Thumbs down for £9K hellos," THES , April 25) would address only symptoms of the problem. They would operate like a revolving door - with...

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  15. Fool's gold 2

    I can only imagine that Ivor Crewe was being ironic in saying that Universities UK was "pleased that the government has recognised the size of the recruitment problem". The proposal is eloquent...

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