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  1. Blurred vision

    The Arts and Humanities Research Council faces an "imperative to be distinctive in our funding role", according to Philip Esler (Letters, 15 May). Postgraduate studentships in the arts and humanities...

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  2. Can-do phenomenon

    The way five metronomes synchronise over two empty drink cans, and the fact that the same principle explains how crickets sing in time ("A beat in time strikes a chord on YouTube", 15 May), is simply...

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  3. Art of science management

    The greatest damage to the community's trust in the Science and Technology Facilities Council has been self-inflicted. Its embattled chief executive's public denial of the scale of the cuts and his...

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  4. Logic that counts

    Roy Harris should practise what he preaches ("The decline of reason", 15 May).By dismissing mathematical logic as "no use to man or beast", he betrays his own misologist tendencies and falls into the...

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  5. Smokescreen of a title

    Page 18 of your last issue: "Use a positive tone: remove negative words and conditionals" ("How to craft a grant application", 15 May). Page 19: Medical Research Council grant for a project entitled...

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  6. Rise of the secret shoppers

    I teach an undergraduate course in consumer behaviour to 150 students. Last year I directed all questions regarding the exam to the Blackboard website, thinking that students would get more timely...

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  7. Mythical questions

    Simon Blackburn contemplates a number of "myths" in his article on ten modern myths ("Reality check", 24 April). I mostly agree with Blackburn, especially on the issue of "the myth of the scientist"...

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  8. Spell it out

    We all use acronyms to show we are in the in-group. But in the name of sanity, how could you write an entire article about QR without once explaining what QR stands for ("Funding council speaks up...

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  9. Citations - a novel index

    Each week as I read Times Higher Education I am careful not to look at the back page until I have dutifully perused the rest of the magazine. Then, having treated myself to The Poppletonian, my eye...

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  10. Brave Oxford

    So "Oxford fawned so shamelessly over the Stuarts ..." eh? (Leader, 15 May). Presumably this fawning didn't include the fellows of Magdalen College, who defied James II in 1687-88 in refusing to...

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  11. Sex and the university

    Romantic attractions between teacher and student may be as old as pedagogy itself, but now such relationships cause people to worry about abuses of power and litigation. Only half of institutions...

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  12. Mission: Improbable

    Computers and lasers are compelling proof that researchers' flights of fancy can pay off, but policymakers prefer to fund work with obvious economic merits. Matthew Reisz asks whether the sky should...

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  13. We know what we like ..

    ... but our tastes are swayed by price, packaging and other social psychological factors in ways we're often unaware of. Matthew Kieran considers the fragility of aesthetic opinions in the latest in...

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  15. 22 May 2008

    Erotic pedagogy - Should universities police relationships between staff and students?