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  1. John Lowerson, 1941-2009

    The Rev John Lowerson, a leading historian of leisure and locality, has died.He was born in a mining village near Doncaster on 22 July 1941, and studied at Maltby Grammar School and the University of...

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  2. Oxford Brookes University - Piazza non grata

    Plans for a £132 million redevelopment programme by Oxford Brookes University have been rejected by the local authority. The university is "taking stock" after Oxford City Council declined to approve...

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  3. First principles define the 'good' academic

    Having seen the recent correspondence regarding the administration costs attributed to academic independence, I felt compelled to respond ("Running battles on the governance front line", Letters, 17...

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  4. Dangerous experiment

    The least we're entitled to expect from an exercise that claims to assess research excellence is that it embodies research principles ("It's evolution, not revolution for REF", 24 September). When it...

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  5. Against the odds

    You characterise Thomson Reuters' success rate for predicting Nobel prizewinners "at about 15 per cent, with seven of its 45 predictions made between 2002 and 2008 proving to be accurate" ("Brits...

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  6. 'Partner' is not the word

    Your article on the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) ("Saudi Arabia begins putting minds to challenges of future", 24 September) states that the University of Cambridge and...

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  7. Anarchism never left

    Alex Prichard celebrates the return of anarchism as an academic subject ("More than mayhem", 24 September), but one might ask if it ever went away. As the convenor of the socialist history seminar at...

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  8. A latte with your alienation?

    When I was a postgraduate at the University of Birmingham a few years ago, my office overlooked the Muirhead Tower (Original Features, 24 September). It was generally regarded as the ugliest building...

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  9. Quantum of solace

    Having recently been awarded a doctorate, I would like to thank George Steiner, the literary critic, for inspiring me on my quest to resubmit my thesis.I was devastated when I was asked to resubmit...

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  10. On the origin of calumnies

    An open letter to Lord Drayson from Charles DarwinMinister, it is a most distressing eventuality to find one's life's work "distorted" in the popular media. Last night, I attended a cinematograph...

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  11. Reputation is everything 1

    In response to the recent article by the vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham ("The seven deadly sins of the academy", 17 September), I don't care to enter into the debate on the...

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  12. Reputation is everything 2

    There are two lessons we can learn from Terence Kealey's remarks that young female students are a "perk" for male lecturers who should "look but not touch".The first is that it is difficult to find...

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  13. Because we're worth it

    Fed up with being a free research resource, Vanessa Toulmin is capitalising on the skills of her staff at her archive

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  14. But can you do a podcast on it?

    Knowledge transfer is often perceived as a concept that is limited to science, but Hannah Fearn discovers it is equally relevant for the arts and humanities

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  15. 'Our fate was in our own hands'

    When an expensive international experiment faced collapse, Don Braben and his collaborators, unfettered by micromanagement, pooled their intelligence and ingenuity to ensure success

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