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  1. Guest leader: Don't duck awkward truths

    Post-RAE, Bahram Bekhradnia calls for a renewed commitment to base public policy on evidence, not administrative convenience

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    #Opinion

  2. Hugh Laddie, 1946-2008

    Hugh Laddie, an iconoclastic High Court judge who became a professor of intellectual property law, has died.He was born on 15 April 1946 and educated at Aldenham school in Hertfordshire before...

    #People

  3. University of Oxford - Aboriginal remains repatriated

    Human remains are to be returned to Australia by the University of Oxford, after a request by the Australian Government and the Ngarrindjeri Heritage Committee. The three different sets of remains...

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    #News
    #University of Oxford

  4. Similar game with different goals?

    Jon F. Baldwin offers a wonderful polemic repelling those who strive for a critical pedagogy ("A culture of excellence", Opinion, 1 January). Rather than focus on the banal, trite regurgitation of...

    #Letters

  5. Degrees of difference

    Jan Smit has it almost right and the university registrar he met completely wrong - an indication of some administrators' detachment from academe? (Letters, 1 January).The earliest doctorates were...

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  6. A number of errors

    I read with interest and some concern your article "Elite v-cs fear 'end of road' for concentration of research" (1 January). Unless I am very stupid, the numbers are totally incorrect.If we take...

    #Letters

  7. Ringing response

    Academics can often reveal so much when they believe they have to respond to a review of their book. Having been a book reviews editor for two academic journals, I have witnessed the insecurities of...

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  8. Mushrooming problem

    Peter Spencer-Phillips, vice-president of the British Mycological Society (Letters, 18 December), is correct to say that I was talking specifically about the critical decline of fungal systematics...

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  9. Silenced by hypocrisy

    Haidar Eid, from Al Aqsa University in Gaza, Palestine, was recently invited to give a keynote talk at an international conference on the nature of democracy, hosted by the Centre for Applied...

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  10. Early start for Aimhigher

    Peter Davies found that once exam grades were taken into account, for sixth formers there was no relationship between parental occupation and aspirations for higher education ("HE ambitions linked to...

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  11. Baby on board

    Increased government support for low-income families with children has coincided with a rise in births among those who left school at 16, a study by the University of Bristol has shown. According to...

  14. University of St Andrews - Age-old assumptions tested

    How old is "old"? People's perceptions of age are being investigated by psychologists at the University of St Andrews, in a bid to improve people's experience of ageing. Researcher Joanne Persson...

  15. University College Dublin - New species discovered

    Scientists have discovered what may be two previously unknown species of extinct animals, during a month-long expedition to the Sahara desert. The expedition was led by Nizar Ibrahim, a...