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  1. Alert on suicide signs

    A charity campaign aims to help staff recognise and act on danger signals from students, reports Rebecca Attwood University staff need to recognise their part in preventing student suicide and...

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  3. Laurie Taylor Column

    "The National Union of Students will be launching a campaign to persuade all universities to extend anonymous marking to all coursework so as to prevent bias by staff" - The Times Higher, May 25 ....

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  4. Leader: Pointless targets threaten the best of researchers

    In the private sector, scarcely a day passes without some company announcing the steps it is taking to be more friendly to its employees. Even the most demanding city employers use the vocabulary of...

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    #Opinion

  5. Israel boycott not anti-Semitic 1

    I am sad to hear that Steven Weinberg has decided to call off his visit to the UK (Letters, May 25). But I am even sadder to learn that his reasons for doing so involve repeating the old canard that...

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  6. Israel boycott not anti-Semitic 2

    Steven Weinberg says that he finds it hard to see any reason other than anti-Semitism for the focus by British left-wing intellectuals on Israeli misdeeds. On the contrary, it seems to me that the...

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  7. Israel boycott not anti-Semitic 3

    You quote Steven Weinberg as saying, "I can think of no other explanation for Israel's treatment than anti-Semitism" ("Jewish laureate calls off UK visit", May 25). Couldn't the world's longest...

    #Letters

  8. Research agenda 1

    Simon Festing of the Research Defence Society calls for openness (Opinion, May 18), but this is media spin, not genuine candour. For years, the RDS's disproportionate media focus on animal rights...

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  9. Research agenda 2

    Aubrey Blumsohn's assessment of the worth of the UK Research Integrity Office (Peep's Diary, May 25) trivialises what is a serious issue. The fact is that the commercialisation of education can only...

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  10. Asymmetrical views

    Your reviewer takes me to task over my new book Why Beauty Is Truth (Books, May 25). Apparently my title is meaningless, my subtitle "A history of symmetry" is unhelpful, and "the cover image of a (...

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  11. Give loot to Cambridge

    Why is Oxford professor Peter Atkins so timid in proposing that the Government should "invest most of its funds in Oxbridge" (Opinion, May 25)? Surely, the optimal scenario is for there to be only...

    #Letters

  12. BFI's vital mission

    Letter to Anthony Minghella, chair of the British Film Institute's board of governors, and Amanda Nevill, director of the BFI, copied to The Times Higher. We have read the document The BFI: A Preview...

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  13. UK violates UN rules

    The debt of thanks, which your editorial says universities owe to Tony Blair (Leader, May 18), will be questioned by a United Nations human rights body. Article 13 of the International Covenant on...

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  14. Küntzel is re-invited

    You reported that Leeds University had been criticised for cancelling a talk on anti-Semitism due to be given by Matthias Küntzel and has been urged to invite him back ("UCU condemns Leeds", May 18...

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  15. A house is so much more than a home

    Real estate may dominate dinner-party talk, but few people think clearly about how the buildings they live in shape their lives. Leif Jerram (right) surveys their domestic and social roles, while...

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