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  1. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
    #What are you reading?

  3. From where I sit: Don't assume one (US) size fits all

    As developing countries build their higher education sectors, many see the "US-style university" as the desired model. This typically means an institution that combines teaching at most or all...

    #From Where I Sit
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    #Opinion

  4. Helen Muir, 1946-2010

    One of the world's leading experts on air passenger safety has died.Helen Muir was born on 13 May 1946 and educated at Kendal High School.A first degree in psychology at the University of St Andrews...

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  5. Our world-leading creativity is at risk

    In your report on the Budget, "Chancellor's pre-hustings STEM largesse steals the Conservatives' thunder" (1 April), you refer to criticism of the government's decision to restrict additional...

    #Letters

  6. Buster and the bunker 1

    "One step beyond the pale" (Leader, 8 April) overlooks the fact that the relationship between universities, the state and what we now call "business" has always been complex.Characterising the...

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  7. Buster and the bunker 2

    I hope that the Higher Education Funding Council for England will take up the challenge posed by "One step beyond the pale" and find out what terms such as "business awareness" and "right skills"...

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  8. Buster and the bunker 3

    Your editorial attributes the opening words of Madness' 1979 hit One Step Beyond to Prince Buster. In one sense this is true, but it's worth pointing out that the phrase "Don't watch that, watch this...

    #Letters

  9. Buster and the bunker 4

    At last, an editorial from Times Higher Education that dares to tell the world what the rest of us have been thinking about recent government policy. It even uses the word "nonsense"! Well done. That...

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  10. Contagious insights 1

    I thoroughly enjoyed reading Stephen Mumford's "Dispositions to lawlessness" (8 April), the latest addition to THE's "My Eureka Moment" series. Not only does it provide an excellent example of...

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  11. Contagious insights 2

    Can metaphysics succeed where physics has failed? Stephen Mumford is likely to have a hard time explaining by means of metaphysics how scientifically observed "regularities are produced".Isaac Newton...

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  12. Multiple income streams

    The letter from Durham University's Brian Tanner (8 April) in its reference to early-career postdoctoral researchers provides a partial explanation for the low average academic salary you report for...

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  13. Mistaken identity

    Last week's "Par for the course" on the length of master's degrees includes references to a 2009 report by the European University Association. I would just like to clarify that I am the author of...

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  14. You ain't seen nothing yet 1

    As a follow-up to "Phone book et al: one paper, 45 references, 144 authors" (News, 8 April), I wanted to alert readers to an even more gross example than the gross it cites.In 1998, I responded to a...

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  15. You ain't seen nothing yet 2

    Your report of a paper with 144 authors does not begin to do justice to the possibilities.In 2002, I came across a seven-page article in The Lancet that listed more than 900 authors, but the editor...

    #Letters