Of the Book, but not on ours
The article "Ditch 'baggage' at door of Muslim-Jewish course" (25 August) is in error in two respects. First, the University of Cambridge has not, as reported, approved the master's course referred...
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Rank and filed
"The mile is no longer a mile" (Letters, 25 August) and in a sense, that is as it should be. The job of A levels is to rank students in order: a place in tertiary education is (in the main) a case of...
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Brand UK: so last century
In November, I and thousands of students from Wales and Scotland travelled to London to march in solidarity with our English neighbours against the reckless actions of the Westminster government,...
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Time to think again
We are writing on behalf of the local branch committee of the University and College Union at Royal Holloway, University of London. The proposals to close the department of Classics and philosophy,...
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Rewarding equality (1 of 2)
In a letter to the Medical Schools Council on 29 July, the chief medical officer, Dame Sally C. Davies, outlined her intention that all medical schools that wish to apply for the National Institute...
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Rewarding equality (2 of 2)
I agree with Dame Athene Donald that gender diversity matters, but I wonder if her proposal would have the desired effects ("Where is Physics Barbie?", 25 August).First, we do not know the importance...
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'Fringe' and brackets
The illustrations accompanying the article on the mess of funding arrangements in the different parts of the UK filled me with dismay ("Toll barriers", 25 August): England is urban and modern;...
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THE Awards 2011: shortlist announced
The unflagging quality and innovation evident in universities across the UK shows the sector's resolute commitment to excellence in the face of a difficult and unpredictable climate. Our shortlist...
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Film review: The Hedgehog
An intelligent adaptation skilfully if smugly paints Japan as antidote to French bourgeois life, says Philip Dodd
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TV review: The Field of Blood
Gary Day sees good versus evil in a hard-headed tale of murder set in a Glasgow newsroom
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John Turner, 1947-2011
John Turner is remembered as a scholar who focused on the big questions and the things that mattered and who always completed tasks to the best of his ability.Born in London in 1947, Professor Turner...
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Campus round-up
University of OxfordFossil-fuelled discoveryResearchers working in Australia have found the oldest-known fossils on Earth. A team of researchers from the University of Western Australia and the...
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Odds and quads
These hair samples may look as if they come from the collection of a serial killer, but they were prepared by one of the major figures in the development of the University of Dundee's renowned...
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