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  1. Leader: Anthony's Dream School

    Recipe for success: take a pinch of existing material, sprinkle a little academic stardust and charge punters £18,000 a year

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  2. From where I sit - Digital killing the lecturing stars

    I have a sneaking suspicion that we university lecturers are so good at incorporating new media into our work that we may do ourselves out of a job.When I was an undergraduate student, the only...

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  3. Appointments

    University of WolverhamptonJenni JonesA lecturer who believes it is good to talk has received a national award in recognition of her work on a mentoring scheme for West Midlands Police. Jenni Jones,...

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  4. Marx, Pandora & the Tower of Porn

    The truth is in here, but so too are countless myths: Colin Higgins on the strange world of the academic library, where cod-antique book curses jostle for shelf space with thieves, tourists and...

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  5. Are friends electric?

    Could robots offer our ageing populations care in their dotage, even love? Can machines genuinely become social beings? Will androids one day dream of electric sheep? Kathleen Richardson examines the...

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  6. Sally, united we stand: you know the rest (1 of 2)

    The University and College Union congress in Harrogate articulated members' anger and determination to fight education cuts and privatisation, not as a special case but as part of the defence of...

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  7. Agony if cap doesn't fit

    When it comes to the battle over USS reform, am I alone in having "reverse worries" about the three main issues? While a move from final-salary to career-average deals (albeit with adjusted accruals...

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  8. PC persecution

    The statement condemning the "bad science" of Satoshi Kanazawa, evolutionary psychologist and reader in the Institute of Management at the London School of Economics, is patently disingenuous ("...

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  9. Trivial pursuit

    I've never before - in 40-odd years of writing books - asked for the right of reply to a review, but I feel I have to in the case of James Stevens Curl's extraordinary notice of The Battle of the...

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  10. Artificial flavour

    Roger Brown offers a dystopian vision of the future of higher education in the light of forthcoming policy changes ("Quality street blues", 2 June). Many in the sector will share his pessimism.The...

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  11. Hidden benefits

    I understand Julia Swindells' frustration with anonymous reviews of manuscripts and grant proposals ("Critics, show yourselves", Letters, 2 June), but revealing the identity of reviewers would cause...

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  12. Sally, united we stand: you know the rest (2 of 2)

    Delegates at the UCU congress voted overwhelmingly for a motion to reject the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia's (EUMC) working definition of anti-Semitism, a set of...

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  13. Film review: Soul Surfer

    It's only the shark that Duncan Wu feels for in a self-righteous true-life tale of triumph over tragedy

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  15. David Turnock, 1938-2011

    Anyone roaming the halls of the geography department at the University of Leicester in the 1970s and 1980s would have been familiar with David Turnock and his Imperial typewriter; the sound of his...

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