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  2. Howard Dalton, 1944 - 2008

    Howard Dalton was a distinguished microbiologist who transformed the use of science at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs while quietly fundraising to help alleviate poverty in...

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  3. Committed to history with 14 names

    When counting an author's citations in Thomson's Web of Science (or Science Citation Index), it is instructive to search for Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Baron (Lord) Kelvin of Largs, William...

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  4. In search of value

    As custodians of a substantial amount of public funds, universities have a duty to demonstrate the achievement of value for money ("Whitehall seeks £1.5bn 'savings' from sector budgets", 17 January...

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  5. Pedantic points

    Is there no way of making jokes without bringing pedants out of the woodwork (Letters, 17 January)? The University of Sussex was known as "Brighton" for 20 years before Sir David Watson's outfit took...

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  6. Dentistry in the chair

    In the week that we learnt of the worsening dentistry crisis in the National Health Service, the bestselling academic books in Sheffield were Integrated Dental Treatment Planning: A Case-Based...

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  7. Learning, not school

    It was disappointing that Alan Ryan wrote that "we propose to keep everyone at school until they are 18" ("Requiem for lost optimism", 10 January).There is no such proposal. There is a proposal to...

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  8. He is Spartacus

    How many referees does it take to vouch adequately for a job applicant?One job advertised in Times Higher Education (Appointments, 17 February) requires six referees for an applicant at professorial...

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  9. The road from Athens

    It is a fair point that university libraries may be falling behind developments on the internet as researchers increasingly make use of new research behaviours ("Researchers' web use could make...

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  10. View from the top

    Several recent issues have covered the topic of business-facing universities, and last week was no exception ("Diversity challenge", 17 January). One indicator of how successful higher education...

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  11. Take more than a bite

    Mao Zedong had a far better grasp of education than Zac Smartboy ("The Poppletonian", 17 February). Smartboy claims that "one doesn't need to eat the whole of an apple or a banana or a peach to...

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  12. Unpalatable truths

    The university exam system faces real problems. Academics are forced to mark too much too quickly. Coursework is contaminated with plagiarism. Fine-grain discrimination is impossible and mistakes are...

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  13. Hollywood study

    I use Hollywood films to give my language-acquisition students the opportunity to practise critical consumption. This hasn't always gone as planned.Some films get it right. Krakozhian-speaking Viktor...

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  14. Homogenous diversity

    Sometimes I even irritate myself in my demand for an answer to the question "where are the women?" when I see an article that offers the opinions of a string of academics.It's the complaint my...

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  15. Men in the majority

    Interesting that the gender composition of your editorial board reflects that of the letters page. This week (10 January), not unusually, all male - more than your appointments news (6/11 female)....

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