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  1. Georges Charpak, 1924-2010

    A Nobel prizewinning physicist who greatly enhanced our ability to derive useful information from atom-smashing experiments has died.According to a speech he gave last year, Georges Charpak was born...

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  3. Don't be afraid to share

    Social media allow users to share information about themselves and their interests. Sarah Cunnane examines their role in the academy

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  4. Face values

    Most Facebook users have not, as is often charged, lost their sense of appropriate behaviour; rather, the site has relaxed some social rules, argues Kathleen Richardson

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  5. Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 2

    It is hard not to chuckle when reading that employers prefer a "narrative" consultation to one where votes for and against pension changes are actually counted ("Pensions powwow set to begin as union...

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  6. Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 3

    The overwhelming rejection of proposed changes to the USS by scheme members in the UCU is not surprising. The biggest change would be the introduction of a two-tier system, in which a career-average...

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  7. Hail to the chief

    What is it/was it with senior Australian academics (Letters, 7 October)? Sixteen years ago, I was attending a population-geography conference at a Swedish field centre with my nine-month-old son, who...

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  8. Impediments to excellence

    Alan Thorpe does a good job of explaining that UK research is of the highest quality and delivers great benefits to society ("Listen out for the impact", 30 September). This success is the legacy of...

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  9. A flawed but useful tool

    I read the letter from Tom Hickey et al about their courses' outstanding National Student Survey results with disappointment ("NSS result: unsatisfactory", 30 September).We at the University of...

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  10. His dark materials? Denied

    Thank goodness the UK Border Agency is protecting universities from undesirable aliens ("Visa stranglehold chokes recruitment", 7 October). We all know that a little knowledge transfer is a dangerous...

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  11. Fabric unravels

    The news that Robert Gordon University, on the advice of some consultancy, is considering outsourcing its information technology provision is another nail in the coffin of the idea of "academic...

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  12. Elephant in the room

    While Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo is left to complete the first of his 11 years in prison, THE proceeds to feature no fewer than three pieces on student-recruitment issues in China (7 October) -...

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  13. Gap in the record

    Why are there no natural science books among "The Canon"?Martin Luck, Associate professor of biosciences, University of Nottingham.

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  14. Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 1

    Sally Hunt's article "Divided we fall" (7 October) fails to recognise that the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme are the minimum required to ensure that an affordable,...

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  15. 14 October 2010

    Market weights and measures - Lord Browne’s judgement: let supply and demand shape the sector