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  1. From where I sit - With all due disrespect

    When the congress was over, the party began: to the sounds of Rage Against the Machine, DJane Bossa Nova raised a revolutionary fist, inciting the dancing crowd to rage against the dying light of...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  2. Obituary - Roger Van Noorden, 1939-2010

    A leading academic administrator and inspirational teacher of economics has died. Roger Van Noorden was born in London on 8 July 1939 and spent the war years in Buckinghamshire before returning to...

    #People

  4. Procurement strategy: look after the pennies

    Next year's recurrent grant announcement signals difficult times ahead for England's academy. Of course, it is just the start.To meet the challenges ahead, we will have to be more creative with the...

    #Letters

  5. The common touch

    Richard Overy's article on the defence of history ("The historical present", 29 April) tries hard to be even-handed, but exposes a tension within the discipline over what "history" is. He seems...

    #Letters

  6. Academy-lit

    "It's time to put the point back into the pen of scholarly writing" (6 May) illustrates several excellent points about specialist publications in academic journals and books.Perhaps the disconnect...

    #Letters

  7. Don't shoot the messenger

    Rosy Daniel describes me as undemocratic, antisocial and prejudiced ("'Bad' scientist", Letters, 29 April). Ouch.I understand that she may be a bit upset, having recently been rejected by the...

    #Letters

  8. Private email, public mob

    In your article "He didn't see that coming, or did he?" (29 April), a private matter between Brian Josephson and I was brought into the public domain in an improper, unhelpful and misleading manner....

    #Letters

  9. Open to suggestions

    J.D. Turner's article "Putting the world back in working order" (29 April) takes an unnecessarily pessimistic view of both the popularity of engineering as a subject and the effects of professional...

    #Letters

  10. Pig irony? Not a sausage

    "Bangers for your buck: the MBA proudly built on sausage-factory ideal" (Cover, 6 May): had the University of Poppleton (and no doubt the degree's sponsor, Poppleton Pork Products) finally won a long...

    #Letters

  11. Rough part of the galaxy

    Stephen Hawking thinks that we'd be safest avoiding intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe (The Week in Higher Education, 29 April). This is unlikely to be a problem. If the life is genuinely...

    #Letters

  12. Space to think

    Many academics view the loss of their 'solitary cells' as a threat to their autonomy, while managers promote places of 'communal engagement' that foster intellectual interaction. Matthew Reisz looks...

    #Features

  13. Money for antique rope

    Most humanities 'research' is the self-indulgent pursuit of obscure hobbies that neither need nor merit funding, and produces only unsold, unread and unreadable books, argues Clive Bloom

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  14. 13 May 2010

    Lost in space - The lack of private places to work is causing disquiet on campus