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  1. Not complacent 1

    Once again The Times Higher appears to be objecting to the world-beating performance of UK universities in attracting international students ("Complacent staff could lose foreign enrolments",...

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  2. Not complacent 2

    I was quoted in the article on foreign students in such a way as to make me apparently dismissive of points raised in the rest of the article. My remark on training was a response to a suggestion...

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  3. Resign or be a traitor

    Now we learn that some chairs of sub-panels for the research assessment exercise don't like the new ground rules for early-career researchers ("Rules hurt new blood, say liberal arts staff", February...

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  4. Autonomous refusal

    The Quality Assurance Agency "expects the University (of London) to produce an action plan" ("QAA findings on London 'perverse'", February 3). What will happen if in exercising its academic autonomy...

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  5. Oases with a loud tick, tick ringing through the air

    Half of the world's most densely populated cities are located in areas vulnerable to earth-quakes - and there is a very good reason why. James Jackson explains It has already been a bad century for...

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  6. The elusive past of je ne sais quoi

    The rise to fame of a well- worn phrase illuminates writers' use of language, says Richard Scholar Modern linguists have long had, I suspect, a reflexive turn to their thinking. It may be that the...

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  7. People's histories lost in the academy

    Grassroots ethnic minority groupsare striving to tell the story of theircommunities, but the politics of heritage is making the task difficult, says Sara Wajid Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka and Hanif...

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  9. Powerful change for the better

    A chemist has developed catalysts that could power every PC, convert coal to petroleum and clean up greenhouse gases. Geoff Watts reports I am about to be impressed. Oxford University research...

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