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  1. Appointments

    University of British ColumbiaSarah OttoWhen Sarah Otto, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of British Columbia, received an email telling her that she had won a "genius grant...

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  2. Expelliarmus debitum!

    Harry Potter a metaphor for higher education? Kevin Fong explains - almost

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  3. Sources of illumination

    Characterised by creativity and attuned to the needs of their age, the first European universities have important lessons for higher education today, says Miri Rubin

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  4. Healthy, wealthy and wise

    Pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, the academy and the NHS all fall far short of their research potential. John Martin prescribes a radical plan to revive UK life sciences while funding...

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  5. REF view too narrow, partially cited or not (1 of 2)

    My colleague Andrew Oswald suggests that the use of journal league tables (based on citations and impact factors) would be better than the judgement of quality offered by research excellence...

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  6. REF view too narrow, partially cited or not (2 of 2)

    Andrew Oswald's juxtaposition of citation metrics and peer review is misplaced, not least because a decision by one academic to cite the publication of another is itself likely to be subjective....

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  7. They deserve obliteration

    In his letter last week ("Blame, a zero-sum game", 22 September), Matthew Huntbach writes: "As a left-leaning Lib Dem, I hate what this government is doing, but as a democrat I have to accept its...

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  8. A nurturing environment

    I want to correct a comment made by Uwe Schütte in his article about Max Sebald in describing the foundation of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, since I...

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  9. The bigger, the better

    Regarding "'Protected' MRC still sees fall in grant winners" (15 September): while slightly fewer grants proportionately were awarded by the Medical Research Council in 2010-11 than the previous year...

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  10. Perishable premium

    "Not such a superpower after all" (Leader, 15 September) had its pros and cons.The con was repeating the myth that the graduate premium persists with more graduates: the fact is that the comparator...

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  11. Stick close to the nest

    Peter Brady asks what would happen to UK universities if many British students decided to study abroad ("Flock may change course", 15 September). We must also ask what this would mean for the...

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  12. Statistically insignificant

    So yet another league table based on partial and inaccurate data - ie, the almost meaningless graduate employment figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency ("Salary premium from post-92s...

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  13. Ironic, don't you think?

    In "Taking Lithuanian leave" (8 September) Malcolm Gillies offers a bizarre neoliberal view of consumer culture in a higher education context: "Can we afford such generous holidays any more?"; "Will...

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  14. Prosaic treatment

    A competition to encourage medical students to write poetry is no doubt admirable ("Evoke Calliope to ease the brutalising disease", 22 September). Unfortunately, none of the winning entries is a...

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  15. Film review: Melancholia

    Melancholia obliterates all around it, figuratively and literally, in Lars Von Trier's latest film, says Philip Dodd

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