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  1. When ref fails to blow whistle

    Flawed research on the dangers of ecstasy published in Science has led to questions about the quality of peer review, says Anna Fazackerley. Almost a year ago, the US neuroscientist George Ricaurte...

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  2. We don't lack skill -just political will

    The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...

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  3. Bin Laden sure didn't read any beer mats

    9/11 was a wake-up call for cultural theorists focused on vampires and discos. It is time to return to big ideas, says Terry Eagleton. My new book, After Theory , provoked one predictable reaction...

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  4. Why don't scholars admit that holy war means war?

    Jihad is a fundamentally martial concept, but, Daniel Pipes says, most US specialists on Islam paint it as a struggle for self-improvement and social justice and, in doing so, camouflage the very...

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  5. Postcolonial paradoxes and posters from the edge

    A group whose work explores the Francophone world's contradictions and ambiguities is threatened by the proposed concentration of research funding, says Michael North. The anniversary of 9/11 seems...

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  6. When ref fails to blow whistle

    Flawed research on the dangers of ecstasy published in Science has led to questions about the quality of peer review, says Anna Fazackerley. Almost a year ago, the US neuroscientist George Ricaurte...

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  7. We don't lack skill -just political will

    The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...

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  8. Bin Laden sure didn't read any beer mats

    9/11 was a wake-up call for cultural theorists focused on vampires and discos. It is time to return to big ideas, says Terry Eagleton. My new book, After Theory , provoked one predictable reaction...

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  9. Find science's missing millions

    When will those who commission scientific research and support undergraduate teaching in such subjects do their sums and pay the real overhead costs ("Clear improvement?", THES , September 26)? We...

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  10. Money for nothing?

    So, farewell to the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education ("ILTHE to vote on disbanding", THES , September 19). The business of improving teaching and learning by encouraging staff...

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  11. Centre dodges axe

    The University of Kent has no plans to close the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor History as part of its restructuring of the School of History ("Kent 'axes' medieval history to save cash",...

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  12. Counting the quality 1

    Can a university cost its quality processes ("Plymouth pays Pounds 1m for quality", THES , September 26)? Quality is embedded in what we do as individuals and corporate professionals. In setting up...

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  13. Counting the quality 2

    "Quality chiefs" have not said that "inadequate English-language support at Middlesex was damaging overseas students' ability to understand in class" ("Language blow for Middlesex", THES , September...

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  14. Minuses of support

    There could be a simpler reason for A-level students' dissatisfaction with university when compared with non-traditional students' ("Open doors but halt early exits", THES , September 26). A-level...

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  15. Slow off the blocks

    Lee Burwitz defends the worth of UK sports science by appealing to unspecified evidence from the sports science establishment that benefits from the inflation of esteem of which I complained (Letters...

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