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Ken Smith's recent letter regarding the percentage of students from state and independent schools going to Oxbridge is a direct plea for a quota system ("Super-selection only perpetuates privilege",...
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Vital variations
I was disappointed to read dismissive comments about the Chopin Online Variorum Edition in the feature "Surfdom" (8 December). Both those interested in musical editing and practical musicians...
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Praise for the engine room
Times Higher Education's People pages suggest a world of fast-moving go-getters - with the exception, over on the right, of a lone deceased colleague whose dedication to their discipline and students...
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Film review: The Iron Lady
A film about Margaret Thatcher is unrealistic about her and events in her premiership, says Duncan Wu
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TV review: Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
The BBC's new Sherlock Holmes is great fun, says Gary Day, but the man himself remains an enigma
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Petra Rogers, 1970-2011
A Czech who came to make Leeds her home, Petra Rogers was cheerful and popular, and was known for her compassion and sensitivity.Ms Rogers was born in the Czech Republic on 23 May 1970. She studied...
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Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonFairytale ending?The widely accepted "Goldilocks theory" of why life flourishes on Earth has been challenged. The idea posits there is no life on Venus or Mars because they are...
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Odds and quads
In 2010, sculptor Tom Harvey created this work from the remains of a 250-year-old cedar tree - the oldest on the campus of The Open University - which had fallen victim to an infestation of the small...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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5 January 2012
Cash cow disease - How the wages of validation led to a 118-year-old institution’s demise
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Questions, questions
Students are suffering from survey fatigue - as are we all, says Sally Feldman
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Scientists call for repeal of 'deluded' EPSRC measures
Willetts receives demand for ‘complete rethink’ of council’s structure and policies. Paul Jump reports
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‘Late surge’ in applications helps reduce year-on-year fall in Ucas figures
University applications by UK students are running 7.6 per cent below last year’s levels, the latest figures show.
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Aim for the stars in science - but don't ask for more money
David Willetts has set out proposals for major multi-national corporations to join forces with a foreign or British university and establish new graduate-only research institutions in the UK.