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  1. A campus of gowns and veils

    Simon Targett reports from a Malaysian university that is seeking a rapprochement with the western intellectual tradition. The man with the moustache stared into the tinted taxi window with...

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  2. Baroque and roll

    What is in the musical canon - and what should be? John Davies asks music academics to nominate their noteworthy top ten. "Is there, or should there be, a canon of great works or great composers that...

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  4. Splitting image

    Alan Ryan asks if America can attend to the difference of its many peoples and still preserve a single ethical, political culture. When I was very much younger, political theory rotated around...

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  5. Cure at a cost

    It is five years since the Government launched its National Health Service reforms. These have had an impact not only on patient care, but also on academic medicine.Today, we highlight the pressures...

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  6. Free speech with kinder words

    Annabel Patterson asks that in the often intemperate exchanges over political correctness we should not forget its real achievements. In 1580, Gabriel Harvey, lecturer in rhetoric at Cambridge,...

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  7. The scenic view

    Simon Targett talks to the irreverent historian of landscape and descendant of Lithuanian loggers, Simon Schama. Simon Schama never knew Sir Percy Winfield. The old Cambridge lawyer had been dead ten...

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  8. A lady fond of dead white males

    If the Republicans have an answer to Hillary Clinton, it is Lynne Cheney. As chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the Bush regime, she stirred up concerns about political...

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  9. The 100 Under 50 rankings analysed

      Phil Baty on the institutions creating valuable niches for themselves in a fast-changing environment There is much to be said for the vitality of youth,” says Martin Paul, president of Maastricht...

  10. Dynamic characters

    Source: Getty The 100 Under 50 universities are marked by their energy, innovation and fearless approach to the future, write Phil Baty and Katie Duncan. Australia has overtaken the UK to become the...

  11. Fired up for the future

    Youth need not be a disadvantage in a dynamic higher education scene, discovers Phil Baty. “Having an impact on the world is not about tradition and history – it’s about relevance in the contemporary...