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  1. It's all right for some

    The current debate on the use of citations for determining future research funding is sad to witness. It raises all that is good and, regrettably, deficient with academic thinking and analysis....

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  2. Past imperfect

    Memory and hindsight are wonderful things, not least when it comes to forgetting. So Alan Ryan tells us that when he arrived at the University of Essex in 1966 the vice-chancellor was telling...

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  3. Past imperfect

    How nice of Alan Ryan to share his thoughts on the 1960s with us. Could I remind him, however, that the institution on the south coast that was attracting so much attention in that decade was the...

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  4. Hidden: a gender

    Matthew Reisz writes: "Acknowledgments may contain thanks to the author's wife ..." ("Books of revelation", 10 January). Why are such male-centric thought processes still making it into print? If the...

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  5. Brought to book

    Something about the book industry seems to induce jeremiads. Susan Bassnett seems to confuse a narrowing range of bricks-and-mortar retailers with the range of titles getting published ("Shrinking...

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  6. Shrinking support

    Your article on university laboratories facing a "demographic time bomb" ("Labs at risk from loss of expertise", 4 January) highlighted a continuation of the trend identified by the Royal Society in...

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  7. Spot the difference

    As a former Quality Assurance Agency review co-ordinator, I begin to wonder just exactly what the agency is now doing to enhance the quality of university provision ("QAA to enlist students to audit...

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  8. Eye on the future

    Why no new name for The Poppletonian? The newsletter's title needs to reflect Poppleton's outward-looking mission and strategic focus. I suggest "Popeye".Robert Goddard, Leeds.

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  9. Burning question

    I applaud your ambition to be a shelf above Motorcycle News (Leader, 10 January), but what am I to light the fire with?R. W. Hoyle, Professor of rural history University of Reading.

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  10. Diversity challenge

    A sanctuary for academic pursuit or a hotbed of entrepreneurship? While educators quibble over the definition of a university, writes Matthew Reisz, all agree that academic freedom is at its core.

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  11. Intellectual extras

    Makers of films and TV shows often hire scholars to give projects authenticity and gravitas, but what's in it for the academics? asks Reece Mathews

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  12. Relative interests

    Jacob Bronowski, one of the 20th century's great public intellectuals, was born 100 years ago this week. Matthew Reisz speaks to his daughter Lisa Jardine.

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  13. Bournemouth: professor of journalism

    Stuart Allan has joined the Media School as professor of journalism and chair of the Journalism Research Group, from the University of the West of England.

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