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  1. Blue skies need vigilant champions

    The wealth of good things at this week's British Association Festival of Science, in London to mark the millennium, reminds us of the golden age of scientific discovery in which we are living. The...

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  2. Let them decide how good they want to be

    In the final part of our series on universities in the 21st century, Tim Knox argues for freedom from social engineering, targets for participation and other constraints on the pursuit of quality. "A...

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  3. Flaws in case for pay by region

    If we take two professors aged 50 on the same salary, one in London, one in the North, where under today's rules they would probably be earning similar wages at retirement in 2015, in Andrew Oswald's...

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  4. Flaws in case for pay by region

    Unless professors of economics get recycled around Britain like a junk bond, it is hard to imagine that they (or any universal man) should have an equally sound grasp of what a pound might buy in...

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  5. Flaws in case for pay by region

    Oswald's arguments about teachers and nurses hardly apply to university teachers, because universities compete in a specialised national labour market, not a local one. The high cost of living in...

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  13. Eyeballing Tracy

    Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones

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