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  1. Peer review at mercy of electronic madness

    Many British academics will agree with the stand taken by John Gray at the plant science department of the University of Cambridge ("Peer review teeters as experts struggle with burden of work", 21...

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  2. Senate House library in peril

    Your article "Treasure troves" (7 May) was a justified celebration of the valuable and interesting library holdings of many British universities. For many in London it will have raised only hollow...

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  3. Speaking the truth to power 1

    It is important not to impose a restrictive version of academic freedom that hides the power interests driving expert voices behind the veil of peer review ("Don't fear open access", Letters, 21 May...

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  4. Speaking the truth to power 2

    A right to "absolute" free speech would come at the expense of others' right to exist ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May). It is an inherently regressive idea that...

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  5. A wardrobe malfunction

    My codpiece almost fell off when I saw the crude sexism displayed in your headline "Grants and pants - Lord May on why women are less thrusting" (News, 21 May). The writer is female, so perhaps a...

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  6. Don't play the blame game

    On reading the long list of website comments on the story "Lecturer apologises to researcher for swapping names in grant application", 14 May, I was, not for the first time, astonished at the sound...

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  7. Out of your league

    Alan Ryan ("The trouble with tables", 21 May) writes with his customary acerbic wit on the absurdity of attempting to rank UK universities on single scales in terms of quality. I was astonished by...

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  8. Anger at language cuts

    We are writing to support protests against decisions made by Imperial College London in the light of government funding cuts. One consequence is a proposed reduction in college-funded foreign-...

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  9. An Orwellian nightmare

    Ann Singleton et al are to be congratulated on their principled stance on the UK Border Agency's (UKBA) new regulations ("We won't collude with efforts to use the academy to police immigration", 7...

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  10. Listen & learn

    The Reith Lectures have long been a premier platform for public intellectuals, but, Matthew Reisz asks, are scholarly communicators endangered in an era of dumbing down, media fragmentation and...

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  11. Moving on

    Like the communities they serve, Northern Ireland's two universities have put inclusiveness and cohesion at the top of the agenda. But some elements of the past linger, Hannah Fearn finds

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  12. Heaven or haven?

    The culture shock experienced by non-religious state-educated undergraduates at elite universities sometimes sends them running into the arms of Christian Unions. In seeking supportive friends, they...

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  13. 28 May 2009

    Step up to the mike - The decline of the public intellectual voice leaves a dangerous void