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  1. And then I discovered DNA

    Tim Birkhead on the trumpet-blowing and florid fiction of the academic CV

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  3. Rosemary Pope, 1958-2008

    Rosemary Pope, the University of Bournemouth's pro vice-chancellor for education, died suddenly on 20 March.Professor Pope, who held a PhD in psychology, was a professor of education with a...

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  4. Delivering first aid for mental distress 1

    I am a dyslexia tutor who mentors students with specific learning difficulties. Increasingly, my colleagues and I are being asked to support students with mental health problems as well as dealing...

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  5. Delivering first aid for mental distress 2

    A student exhibiting signs of stress, depression or mental illness is truly an impossible case for academics to handle, particularly in the context of an already taxing daily workload. Yet the fact...

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  6. Delivering first aid for mental distress 3

    Academic training in the UK clearly doesn't prepare staff to cope with emotional distress and breakdown in our students, but there is now an accessible pathway to gaining appropriate skills.Mental...

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  7. Upending league tables

    Gerard Kelly gives three reasons for maintaining league tables (Leader, 10 April).First, he says they give information that was apparently not there prior to league tables' existence; but that is not...

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  8. Suspension and disbelief

    The director of research and evaluation at the Higher Education Academy has been suspended from his post for a letter published in Times Higher Education that commented on the National Student Survey...

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  9. Copy left and right 1

    While I agree that access to official documents should be free and unrestricted, Erik Ringmar ("Liberate and disseminate", 10 April) is wrong to state that ProQuest has any claim to the copyright of...

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  10. Copy left and right 2

    Contrary to Erik Ringmar's statement, all British parliamentary papers from 1688 to 2003-04 are freely available online to the UK higher and further education communities, thanks to licence...

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  11. The op cit effect

    I recently wrote a paper on mathematical notation and its automatic treatment that was submitted to a significant conference in the field. In it I had to cite various examples of actual notation.One...

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  12. It's about time

    Lancaster University is to be congratulated ("Lancaster guarantees students minimum weekly contact time with tutors", 10 April). The amount of contact time that many UK undergraduates receive is...

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  13. Fashion victims

    Students and employers are increasingly dictating the courses that universities offer, as witnessed by the rise of business-related and TV-inspired subjects such as forensic science. But how far...

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  14. In at the kill

    What is it about crime and universities? As the film of The Oxford Murders premieres, Matthew Reisz probes a world of professor-sleuths, philosophical riddles and the academics who are hooked on them

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  15. The American Dream

    It is a tempting proposition: a new life and a new job at a US or Canadian university. But what is the reality of academic life in North America? Esther Oxford asks those who took the plunge

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