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  1. Research hobbyist

    Dave Delphy, new chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, cites Michael Faraday in connection with the value of fundamental research ("Applying the great lesson of...

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  2. He who pays the piper

    The recent visit of Lords Denham and Adonis to University College London in an attempt to bolster support for the proposed Camden Academy should serve as a warning to all working in higher education...

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  3. Safeguard final-salary pension 2

    Recently the Government, in agreement with the unions, introduced new pension rules but retained final-salary schemes. The Times Higher now reports that the Universities and Colleges Employers...

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  4. Not all men are evil 2

    There are some topics on which writers ought to take particular care not to risk appearing prejudiced. It was a pity therefore that Joanna Bourke's article contained the sentence: "Men are getting...

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  5. Degrees of fashion 2

    The grading of student work is inherently and inevitably rough. In most circumstances it is more a matter of judgment than of measurement. Marks are less precise than the algorithms used for honours...

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  6. The man behind the headlines

    James Watson has decided views on Rosalind Franklin, Larry Summers, cancer, networking and 'the archaic crap' that is religion. He shared a few of them with Matthew Reisz in the Nobel laureate's only...

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  7. Parallel lives

    An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer their different perspectives on freshers' week. THE FATHER The relative peace of summer finally broke with a cloudburst of meetings...

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  8. Prepare to be super-crunched

    From banking to the wine industry to medicine, professional expertise and intuition are giving way to the more reliable outcomes of mass data analysis. The next target sector? Quite possibly yours....

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  12. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a comic quest: "My wife Norma had run off with Guy Dupree and I was waiting for the credit card...

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