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Prayers, bangs and wimples
Nottingham is casting fresh light on medieval life, love and moral concerns. Matthew Reisz writes
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Truth hurts
Gary Day finds the omission of one victim's tale disturbing in the gritty realism of Five Daughters
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Election triumph for v-c's friend!
"I'm absolutely delighted by the result." That was the reaction of our vice-chancellor to the news that his old friend Sir Hartley Grossman, the Managing Director of Poppleton Pork Products, would...
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Different strokes
Funny how typing-pool notions persist in a Web 2.0 world, says Sally Feldman
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Research intelligence - Not so good with numbers
The Climategate affair highlighted the need for more statistical nous in many academic fields. Zoe Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Decide it on science, not silence
Academics prize their freedom of enquiry, but where do we draw the line when lives are at stake, and how can we enforce it?
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From where I sit - Second-class scholars
There are frequently stories in the Australian media about the diminishing standards of tertiary education. The problems include weak literacy skills (many students emerge with degrees but are unable...
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Fred Halliday, 1946-2010
A leading authority on international relations, superpower rivalries and the Middle East has died.
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Philosophical view: Middlesex, think again
We the undersigned deplore Middlesex University's recent decision to close its philosophy programmes, including its prestigious and successful MAs. This is a matter of national and indeed...
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Immovable barriers
J.D. Turner argues persuasively in favour of engineering as a career option ("Putting the world back in working order", 29 April), and makes some telling observations about the way the subject is...
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Roasted chestnuts
Will Podmore's riposte, "Hobson's choice" (Letters, 29 April), to my letter regarding the issue of non-voting academics ("Dubious vintage", 22 April), misses the point of the original argument.He...
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Autonomous response
In "The enemies within" (22 April), Anthony Glees appears to make an extraordinary and unfounded insinuation that the University of Oxford's external funding sources are affecting campus life. Those...
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We need fees transparency
We the undersigned student leaders would like to publicly condemn the decision taken by the Russell Group to withhold its submission to Lord Browne of Madingley's independent review of tuition fees...