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  1. Ken Green, 1946-2009

    Ken Green, professor of environmental innovation management at the University of Manchester, died on 12 February after a short illness.He was an expert on the application of technology to problems of...

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  2. University of Oxford - Clash of ideas

    Budding entrepreneurs battled it out at the University of Oxford's fifth annual Idea Idol competition. The contest, billed as part Dragons' Den and part Pop Idol, was held at the university's Said...

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  4. Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 1

    The Higher Education Funding Council for England ignored the results of the research assessment exercise when allocating funding for 2009-10 in English universities. This is shown by the correlation...

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  5. Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 2

    Those of us at the University of Reading are naturally wondering just how we have arrived at this funding situation. We cannot escape the fact that we are proportionally the hardest hit "research-...

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  6. Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 3

    Your otherwise informative coverage of the grant allocations was marred by the exclusion of further education colleges from the analysis.Your table of gainers and losers, for example, should have...

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  7. Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 4

    In your article on the financial outcome of the RAE, you ascribe the Institute of Cancer Research's 10 per cent decrease in research funding to "disappointing RAE results" ("Reversal of fortunes", 5...

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  8. Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 5

    Your description of the relationship between institutional size and performance in the article on RAE funding was overly simplistic in its interpretation of the analyses. A statistical association...

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  9. Oxford's happy history

    We would like to thank Felipe Fernandez-Armesto for giving a fascinating talk to the Oxford University History Society. However, having hosted a number of successful speaker events this term, we were...

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  10. Doctor how

    I was interested to read the feature on professional doctorates ("Practical knowledge", 26 February). What it perhaps misses is that the range of practices across the doctoral spectrum are much wider...

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  11. Culture change bears fruit

    The isolated quotes in your feature "No apples for teachers" (19 February) are misleading. My position as an educator at the University of Manchester needs clarification and, more importantly, I made...

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  12. No chance of a 2D deity

    Few would disagree with Simon Blackburn's view that David Hume was a gifted writer, but the implied notion that he provided the last word on God's existence, anthropology or miracles is somewhat...

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  13. You don't have to be fixated to work here...

    The academy has long been a haven for obsessives, but now its emphasis on teamwork would ill suit socially inept geniuses such as Paul Dirac, writes Matthew Reisz

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  14. Stone-Age thinking

    Evolutionary psychology applies the tenets of Darwinism to human thought and action, with major implications for public policy. But critics say it presents untestable, headline-grabbing myths as fact...

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  15. 12 March 2009

    Odd ones out - Are super-bright obsessive thinkers no longer welcome in the academy?