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  1. Surgeon quits Sicilian centre

    An Italian surgeon who after years abroad returned to Italy to run a new international transplant centre in Palermo, Sicily, has resigned because of dissatisfaction with the national health system....

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  2. Green sceptic retains his job

    Bjørn Lomborg, director of Denmark's Institute for Environmental Assessment, will keep his job despite breaching the "clear norms" of scientific practice in his controversial book The Skeptical...

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  3. Fuzzy skills agenda just dumbs down our PhDs

    Doctoral students should be adding to knowledge, not ticking off a list of skills learnt, says Stephen Rowland The PhD has changed. Traditionally, it was a programme of study whose outcome was a...

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  4. Rate her prospects

    Former Labour education secretary and leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords Shirley Williams has yet to rule herself out of the race to become the next chancellor of the University of Oxford....

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  5. Gowns but no mortar please

    The peaceniks are out in force at Dundee University in the hope that BBC world affairs correspondent John Simpson will at last be able to receive an honorary degree. Work prevented Mr Simpson...

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  6. Pizza's perfect with chips

    Fast food just got faster as computers have been given the ability to champion the perfect pizza. Da-Wen Sun and Tadhg Brosnan of University College Dublin have devised software that analyses the...

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  7. Imperial measures

    Imperial "look, no comma" College London this week launched its new brand identity with an outline of its characteristics. It states that Imperial's personality is "authoritative, not dictatorial"...

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  8. Don's diary: delivered into rude reality

    Six months Teaching starts with first-year medics. "So when does it drop?" asks a man being taught to take patient-centred case histories and develop his communication skills. My GP warns that home...

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  10. Unnatural selection

    Narrow admissions policies are keeping able applicants out of university, argues Helen Connor Fair access to universities is crucial in developing widening participation and ensuring that more people...

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  11. Market gamble, public payoff

    Mike Emmerich, Gerry Stoker and Dan Corry explain why choice and market principles are key to reforms in public services The public service reform debate has become inextricably linked, in media eyes...

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