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  1. NHS is not immune 2

    Chris Bunting states that "in the humanities and social sciences, ...[Cecile] Wright appears to stand alone as the only black female professor". What about Ann Phoenix, professor of social and...

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  2. Excellence is the key

    Readers of The Times Higher would be misguided if they concluded from your report ("Rivals vie for new MRC site", October 22) on the relocation of the National Institute for Medical Research that the...

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  3. Don't take it as red

    Further to Sue Powell's letter on Captain Grose (October 22), referring to my review of Blooming English (October 8). I did, of course, refer to the venerable captain, given the irony of his name in...

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  4. Life in a parallel world

    If Declan Leyden of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association (Letters, October 22) thinks many institutions are planning for a "dramatic reduction" in the number of fixed-term academic...

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  5. An apt appellation?

    My suggestion for the name of the merged Association of University Teachers and Natfhe would be the Amalgamated Academical Association, to be known as AAA or 3A. That AAA might also stand for "...

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  6. TV is no panacea

    Does Maria Misra assume that the only need a post-Bharatiya Janata Party Government in India has is for a TV historian who "commands the fees of a David Starkey" (Working Knowledge, October 22)? In...

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  7. Policies behind poverty

    Joseph Stiglitz's criticism of free-market zeal has ruffled all sorts of feathers, but Stephen Phillips warms to the laureate. Globalisation rebel and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz has a schedule...

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  8. 'Black intellectual seems an oxymoron in England'

    Up to 50 per cent of black male social scientists may have left the UK for the US. Stephen Phillips finds out why. "If you wanted to hold a black British social scientists forum, you'd have to [...

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  9. A true cosmopolitan in search of the bigger picture

    As the Northeast prepares to vote on a regional assembly, Huw Richards talks politics with the man heading the ESRC's devolution programme. Charlie Jeffery will have an excellent vantage point as the...

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  10. From con to icon and other risky journeys

    Doggedness has carried the best scientists through the mire of public mistrust... provided they're right, says Len Fisher. Scientists have always had trouble overcoming public distrust of new ideas,...

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  11. Darwin is alive and kicking

    It is a sad day when serious inquiry is limited by the least able among a sizeable intake of first-years. It is a tragedy that university chiefs have had to adopt sophisticated management skills...

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  12. Moral maze with toil and trouble at its heart

    Anthropologists studying societies that believe in witches can encounter huge ethical dilemmas, reports Harriet Swain. Our monthly guide to the conferences taking place around the world. A woman in...

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  13. Conference watch: November

    195th meeting of the Society for Endocrinology , and Endocrinology and Diabetes Day , jointly with Diabetes UK, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1-3. Planet Earth - Are We Destroying Our Future?...

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  14. Instant experts: Guitars

    Publicity riff : This promises "an international conference celebrating the culture of the guitar in theory and practice". First day will be listening to live performances, second day will be the...

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