Speaking the truth to power 2
A right to "absolute" free speech would come at the expense of others' right to exist ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May). It is an inherently regressive idea that...
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A wardrobe malfunction
My codpiece almost fell off when I saw the crude sexism displayed in your headline "Grants and pants - Lord May on why women are less thrusting" (News, 21 May). The writer is female, so perhaps a...
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Don't play the blame game
On reading the long list of website comments on the story "Lecturer apologises to researcher for swapping names in grant application", 14 May, I was, not for the first time, astonished at the sound...
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Out of your league
Alan Ryan ("The trouble with tables", 21 May) writes with his customary acerbic wit on the absurdity of attempting to rank UK universities on single scales in terms of quality. I was astonished by...
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Anger at language cuts
We are writing to support protests against decisions made by Imperial College London in the light of government funding cuts. One consequence is a proposed reduction in college-funded foreign-...
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An Orwellian nightmare
Ann Singleton et al are to be congratulated on their principled stance on the UK Border Agency's (UKBA) new regulations ("We won't collude with efforts to use the academy to police immigration", 7...
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Listen & learn
The Reith Lectures have long been a premier platform for public intellectuals, but, Matthew Reisz asks, are scholarly communicators endangered in an era of dumbing down, media fragmentation and...
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Moving on
Like the communities they serve, Northern Ireland's two universities have put inclusiveness and cohesion at the top of the agenda. But some elements of the past linger, Hannah Fearn finds
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Heaven or haven?
The culture shock experienced by non-religious state-educated undergraduates at elite universities sometimes sends them running into the arms of Christian Unions. In seeking supportive friends, they...
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28 May 2009
Step up to the mike - The decline of the public intellectual voice leaves a dangerous void
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Medical charities plan cuts to funding
Survey shows that some plan to slash research budgets by up to 40 per cent. Zoƫ Corbyn reports
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Concern over shrinking numbers of UK recruits to psychiatry
Royal college cites doctorsā ānegative attitudesā to subject in highlighting dearth of entrants. Hannah Fearn reports
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Gloria Monday: A generation betrayed
Outrage over MPsā expenses will be as nothing to the howls unleashed when people learn that āeducation, education, educationā was a false promise, says Gloria Monday
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Bullied Blogger: Have a nice dayā¦ your P45 is in the post
I decide to get a courier service to collect my things from the university. 17 boxes. They are all delivered in NICEDAY packaging. āHave a nice day,ā says the courier. āI will, thank you,ā I reply. I...
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No one knows what a degree is worth, says Guild of Educators
Problems with āconsistency and interpretationā mean it may be time to ābust openā classification. Hannah Fearn writes