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  1. 'Stuff the owl' - shock statement

    "It's exactly the type of over-wrought explanation we've come to expect from a sociologist."That was the brusque response from Georgina Edsel, our Deputy Head of Brand Management, to an analysis by...

    #Laurie

  2. Freedom: just another word for bigger profits (1 of 2)

    Terence Kealey deserves thanks for explicating a key point on which ministers prefer to maintain silence: namely, that the argument for privatising the UK's universities rests empirically on the...

    #Letters

  3. Freedom: just another word for bigger profits (2 of 2)

    Roger Brown (Letters, 18 October) confesses he is fearful lest our most selective universities "detach themselves from direct state funding for teaching". But he does not tell us why.All UK...

    #Letters

  4. Let's talk numbers (1 of 2)

    Sharing knowledge requires a precise language for each domain of evidence. The challenge is to reach balanced judgements across these domains in a world of uncertainties. For "evidence-informed"...

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  5. Let's talk numbers (2 of 2)

    The report by Ian Diamond on recommendations from the British Academy High Level Strategy Group on Quantitative Skills is surely to be welcomed ("Cash for quantitative and qualitative change", 18...

    #Letters

  6. First, mould the mind

    I am in broad agreement with Nigel Tubbs' argument that we need liberal arts programmes in the academy ("The importance of being useless", 11 October), but I wonder whether calling them "useless" is...

    #Letters

  7. A reluctant royal host

    At the age of 24, Richard Evans probably did not know much about the running of a university, but one would have thought that the passage of time would have given him the hindsight to realise that...

    #Letters

  8. Ready for business

    I read with particular interest your article "Experiential enterprise: can-do students need hands-on teaching" (4 October) about the need for students to experience rather than just to learn about...

    #Letters

  9. Wild duck chases

    Poppleton University's appointment of Henrik Ibsen (The Poppletonian, 11 October) reminded me of another unlikely university appearance from the early 1970s. On the request of a student, a public-...

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  14. Fearless symmetries

    Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other’s orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes

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