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  1. Astuteness of crowds

    Many believe that above a certain threshold of competence, the award of research council grants has become almost a lottery ("Grant award? It could be you", 30 September).The success rate is very low...

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  2. Precautionary principle

    When someone of Martha Nussbaum's pedigree speaks publicly about a forthcoming educational and political crisis, we had better take notice ("World crisis in humanities, not many hurt", 21 October). I...

    #Letters

  3. 'Academy' untoward

    Am I the only long-time reader of Times Higher Education who finds the use of "the academy" to mean universities or the higher education system irritating? It is difficult to believe that it is so...

    #Letters

  4. Undivided attention

    I was most surprised to read that in the UK, the American Civil War "is not at the centre of a single undergraduate course" ("Blues and Greys in the UK", 28 October). As it happens, my second-year...

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  5. Making the A level work a little harder

    The government wants a return to the past, with more input into the exam process by universities. Rebecca Attwood probes whether the move is welcomed or seen as more ministerial meddling

    #Features

  6. Bad news travels slow

    Delays to a report on the future of Irish higher education have fuelled unease over its proposals. Having seen a draft of the recommendations, Hannah Fearn gets the academy's verdict

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  7. My Dan Brown moment

    The impact agenda came roaring to unruly life for a self-confessed shy bookworm when his work on Plato's 'musical code' drew the attention of the international media. Jay Kennedy tells the tale

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  8. 4 November 2010

    A-level design - Should universities be entrusted with refurbishing and maintaining the qualification?

  11. Tara Brabazon: Trade routes of the mind

    Harold Innis was a professor at the same institution for decades – but while he remained steadfastly local and empirical, he probed the expansive variables of space and time. Tara Brabazon reveres...

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