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  1. Promoting religious beliefs in the workplace

    We recently reported on the issues that an employer should consider when faced with employees’ conflicting beliefs in the workplace. The issue of religion and belief has again been in the public eye...

    #Legal

  4. We are all crazy now

    Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has declared that he "totally agrees" with Dr Bruce Charlton of Newcastle University, who recently argued that universities lack sufficient...

    #Laurie

  5. Blue skies or no sky at all

    We must save pure research - it could be key to Earth's future, says Kevin Fong

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    #Guest columnist
    #Kevin Fong
    #Opinion

  6. Leader: Leadership comes at a premium

    Vice-chancellors' salaries have risen, but so have the demands of the job they do and the economic challenges they faceFor once, academics can start to feel justly rewarded. The new pay framework has...

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  7. From where I sit - Erasmus opens Spanish vistas

    There was a time when Erasmus Mundus was just a dream for the many Spanish students who whiled away their Sunday afternoons imagining what it would be like to study abroad.We must not forget that the...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  8. John Golby, 1935-2009

    John Golby, a leading historian of popular culture, has died.He was born on 16 July 1935 and brought up in Wembley, London, where his father was catering manager at the football stadium. After two...

    #People

  9. University of Oxford - New media to hike state intake

    The proportion of the University of Oxford's British undergraduates who studied at state schools rose to 55.4 per cent in 2008, up 2 per cent compared with the previous year. Now the university is...

    #Institutions
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    #University of Oxford

  10. RAE scales tipped to unbalance humanities 1

    There were 83 submissions to the history unit of assessment in the 2008 research assessment exercise, and the panel found some evidence of international quality in every one.We are deeply...

    #Letters

  11. RAE scales tipped to unbalance humanities 2

    Paul Whiteley argues that Hefce ignored the results of the RAE in allocating funding for 2009-10 (Letters, 12 March). He cites a lack of correlation between the average RAE score and the change in...

    #Letters

  12. Lifelong affairs 1

    In the past week, three universities - Bristol, Reading and Manchester - closed their public programmes of courses for adults.The closure of such programmes, which have reached hundreds of thousands...

    #Letters

  13. Lifelong affairs 2

    As the proposer of the Parliamentary early day motion in support of the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL), I was surprised by your account of the organisation's Westminster lobby with...

    #Letters

  14. Different rules apply pre-92

    Subtle observer he may be of university politics and policy, but when it comes to those upstart crows the post-92 universities, Alan Ryan likes his slogans as much as the next minister ("It is all a...

    #Letters

  15. Dancing to a one-note tune

    The fashion in universities is to at best ignore and at worst undermine the methodological and intellectual integrity of disciplines by creating spurious new school identities. These pop into...

    #Letters