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  1. Off Piste: Failure to launch

    Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? David J. Gunkel mourns the betrayal of his Cold War boyhood's dreams of jetpacks, lunar adventure and the futuristic allure of the metric system

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    #Off Piste

  2. Leader: Historical lessons are priceless

    The heritage industry puts flesh on the past to flog it. History sits less easily on the impact agenda but is vital nonetheless

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  3. From where I sit: Lost without translation

    As I approach a new job in a Japanese university, I'm constantly receiving material from the institution in Japanese, including announcements of induction sessions conducted in Japanese. "Well, what...

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    #News
    #Opinion

  5. 'Bad' scientist

    David Colquhoun has succeeded through scare tactics in getting the University of Buckingham Medical School to withdraw from the diploma in the study of integrated medicine (IM) (“It’s terminal for...

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  7. Epic manned mission home

    Kevin Fong takes a road trip across Europe after volcanic ash grounds his plans

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    #Kevin Fong
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  8. Illusion of quality and trouble with citations 1

    Michael Wood's proposal for "The journal of everything" (22 April) suffers from the usual problem of all such proposals: the lack of a credible business plan. He points out the advantages for authors...

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  9. Illusion of quality and trouble with citations 2

    Your news report "'Publish or perish' culture distorting research results" (22 April) has clear links with the problem of multiple authorship flagged up by Times Higher Education in "Phone book et al...

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  10. Undeserving causes 1

    There has been much comment, as expected, in light of the latest data on vice-chancellors' salaries ("It was fun while it lasted", 1 April). The widening salary differential between vice-chancellors...

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  11. Undeserving causes 2

    The idea that the ratio of the highest and lowest pay within an organisation should be limited seems to me to be a good one (Letters, 22 April). However, a constant, as suggested by Ken Smith, would...

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  12. Barbed-wire welcome mat 1

    Overseas students are worth far more to UK academia than tuition fees alone ("More than money is at stake", 22 April): rather than being mere "cash cows", they ensure that studying in Britain (...

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  13. Barbed-wire welcome mat 2

    As someone who has spent their life teaching international students, I read your editorial of 22 April with interest. I agree with you that we cannot ignore facts, but where are the facts that...

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  14. Poor words, not figures

    Nowhere in Lord Oxburgh's report does it say that researchers in the Climatic Research Unit are "poor with figures" (The Week in Higher Education, 22 April). The Oxburgh panel investigated whether or...

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  15. Poor writing and figures

    I empathise with Tim Birkhead's concern about poor penmanship ("Different type of problem", 15 April). In disciplines that focus on the production of narrative writing, it may well be that the word...

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