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  1. No happiness at Poppleton - official

    One of our leading low-scoring RAE academics has joined in the debate about the value of the ESRC's £4.4 million project investigating the relationship between work and happiness.Dr Quintock, of the...

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  2. Go find those marrows

    Sally Feldman mourns the demise of local papers and regional television

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  4. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

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  6. From where I sit: Northern exposure

    They say the best way to handle nerves when public speaking is to imagine your audience naked, but that wasn't much help when I gave a talk at the British Naturism winter bash somewhere in the north...

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  7. Deborah Baker, 1949-2009

    A world-renowned expert on inequalities in health has died.Deborah Baker was born in London on 23 September 1949 and studied at Brunel University before qualifying as a psychologist in 1973.She went...

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  8. Divided academy won't boost quality 1

    How disappointing it was to read Peter Williams' comments in your magazine ("Engage with quality assurance or face state takeover, scholars told", 19 November).Williams, the former chief executive of...

    #Letters

  9. Divided academy won't boost quality 2

    The Government's approach to quality is to remove support from courses regarded as unsatisfactory. Such a policy seems destructive. A more positive approach would be to use metrics of quality to...

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  10. Priorities aren't working

    Academics are concerned about the objectivity of a £4.4 million Economic and Social Research Council call, with additional support from the Medical Research Council, for bids to study the happiness...

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  11. Missing members 1

    Your article on higher education mission groups sets out to provide a complete picture of the bodies representing institutions in a diverse higher education ecology ("Do you want to be in my gang?",...

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  12. Missing members 2

    In your piece on the groups representing UK universities, you include the recently renamed University Alliance. Historically, it consisted of all those and only those institutions that were not...

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  13. Undervalued exports

    In 2007, the British Council published an estimate of the value of the education-export sector to the UK in a publication called Global Value - The Value of UK Education and Training Exports: An...

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  14. Open and shut case

    Your article on open-access journals, "Learning to share" (12 November), focuses on the sciences, where research is funded; university libraries that want to save on subscriptions and storage; and...

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  15. For the record

    While Sandra Kemp might like to clarify what she calls "inaccuracies" about the situation at the London College of Communication (Letters, 19 November), on behalf of more than 115 students enrolled...

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