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  1. Hugh Berrington, 1928-2010

    A charismatic lecturer on the psychological aspects of politics has died.Hugh Berrington was born in Ewell, Surrey on 12 December 1928. He was educated at Ewell Castle School and, at the age of 15,...

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  3. HEA, don't change the subject centres

    Speaking from institutions across the country and the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines, we write to express our profound consternation at the Higher Education Academy's decision to...

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  4. Choice cut (1 of 2)

    David Eastwood asks "Who's afraid of student choice?" (11 November) and accuses the academy of "timidity". But the Browne Review designates "priority subjects" without regard to student choice or...

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  5. Choice cut (2 of 2)

    Eastwood's defence of the Browne Review relies on wishful thinking. He predicts that "students will enter as discriminating and informed applicants and will study as expectant and committed learners...

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  6. Spirited opposition

    Your article "Bristol v-c faced no opposition in bid to become UUK president" (18 November) fails to paint the full picture. Universities UK's strategy regarding the government's cuts programme and...

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  7. Illume the heart of darkness

    Yes, a great many so-called "historical" novels are trash ("History in the faking", 18 November). Is War and Peace also trash? I ask mainly because Leo Tolstoy was scathing about the contributions of...

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  8. If always broke, fix it

    Peter Geoghegan argues that the massive student protest in London on 10 November reflected real anger and is likely to be the first of many ("Student riots, the first taste of the fruits of unbridled...

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  9. Great - more red tape!

    Aaron Porter, the president of the National Union of Students, is absolutely right ("New market, new rules: NUS signals consumer revolution", 18 November). Only by diverting a greater proportion of...

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  10. Law of the excluded middle

    As an American teenager, I considered many West Coast and New England institutions, but after a visit to the University of St Andrews, I realised that it was a cheaper option - even with the expense...

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  11. Mission impossible

    I'm afraid Martin A. Mills is deluded ("A grand unified theory of man", 18 November). Such a theory is neither possible nor desirable, because it could never accommodate the natural and social...

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  12. Meditation's what you need

    Meditation is not a fitting member of a list of "treatments that many regard as having unproven efficacy at best" ("No 'magic bullet': try this amulet", 18 November).The mental-health benefits that...

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  13. There's more to a story than facts and figures

    The Freedom of Information Act enables public access to scientists' research data, but can scientific knowledge really be extracted in this way? Scientists should engage with the public, but need to...

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  14. Achieving critical mass

    This should be the age of reason but we are failing to foster the intellectual skills that could liberate student minds. Linda Elder argues that we should embed critical thinking at the heart of the...

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  15. Film review: The American

    Duncan Wu finds unexpected depth in a tale of a fearful assassin, but not in the lead's acting

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