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  1. Oxford dons find spot of colour

    It may well be the most important decision that Oxford University has faced in its 800-year history - should the ancient institution allow itself to be governed by outsiders or continue as a self-...

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    #News
    #University of Oxford

  2. Keeping faith with free speech? 1

    Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, makes a brave defence of freedom of association and freedom of speech (Features, December 8), something the National Union of Students and its membership...

    #Letters

  3. Keeping faith with free speech? 2

    Rowan Williams rightly emphasises the importance of free speech when considering the complex issue of the relationship between Christianity and sexual orientation. However, he is on weaker ground in...

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  4. Keeping faith with free speech? 3

    Why all this fuss about Christian unions? Most university student unions agree with the simple principle that all student societies must be open to all students. Discrimination - by sex, colour,...

    #Letters

  5. Keeping faith with free speech? 4

    Your use of the "Christian union" ("Archbishop hits back", December 8) is wrong. The "u" should always be capitalised. A "Christian Union" is a group affiliated to the Universities and Colleges...

    #Letters

  6. The blame game

    I agree that universities are setting themselves ambitious targets to recruit international students ("Overseas agent probe", December 1). I would add that in the process they are bringing their...

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  7. Shaky introduction 1

    While the proposal to give further education colleges the right to award foundation degrees - rather than relyJon the approval of a university - is a move in the right direction, it is flawed in two...

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  8. Shaky introduction 2

    Drummond Bone's comments highlight the sector's desire to maintain control of all higher education programmes. Foundation degrees are key to meeting the Government's desire for 50 per cent...

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  9. Hard to swallow

    I see that investors in Pfizer are stunned by a fall of more than £15 billion in the value of the drug company after trials of the cholesterol-lowering drug Torcetrapib were stopped. In clinical...

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  10. Triumph over adversity

    Stephen Heppell's article (Opinion, December 8) drew telling analogies between the current situation of universities and that of the 1960s and 1970s British motorcycle industry: lack of vision, lack...

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  11. A case of class action

    Malcolm Deas rejects my first-hand impressions of Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) as representing "genuine widening participation" with "high standards" (Features, December 1) and has...

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  12. Other ways to add up

    Ross Anderson's arithmetic (Letters, December 8) on possible voting in a future Cambridge Council is, of course, correct. But is it not bizarre to suppose that a heterogeneous group of the membership...

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  13. A sift through sands reveals no grain of truth

    Anthropologist Jeremy Keenan says his fieldwork in Algeria shows the Bush Administration distorted truth to open a Saharan front in its War on Terror In the second week of March 2003, 32 European...

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  14. Goodbye to kipper ties and sideburns

    Turn off the alarm clock, the OU is being taken off air - consigned to history by new technology. Huw Richards reflects on 35 years The University of the Air is being taken off air, as new technology...

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