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  1. Appointments

    University of TorontoGreg ScholesGreg Scholes, professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, has been awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences. The honour, given...

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  3. Higher anxiety

    Alan Ryan considers whether traditional university education has run its race

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  4. There's no good reason for this inequality

    A gruelling four-year battle with her institution over a gender pay gap was ultimately empowering for Liz Schafer, who hopes it will help other women in the fight for parity

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  5. Figures of merit

    Competence in mathematics is desirable for everyone but vital for scientists, yet there is a widespread, deep-rooted fear of the subject. Stephen Curry insists that this can be overcome by making...

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  6. Teaching fellowships do not benefit anyone

    I suspect I'm not alone in noticing the recent proliferation of "teaching fellowships" in UK higher education, but who do they benefit?They appear to offer an opportunity for those recently...

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  7. GPA: imprecise or exact? (1 of 2)

    The grade-point average system ("'Two tribes' to the wall? Elite set may adopt GPA", 23 June) initially appears to offer greater precision in student assessment. However, there is a danger that...

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  8. GPA: imprecise or exact? (2 of 2)

    Your explanation of the US-inspired GPA system states that the average "is calculated by finding the average of course grades, although sometimes weightings are used to place additional value on...

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  9. Disservice to young people

    Earlier this month the government published Letting Children be Children, the report of an independent review led by Reg Bailey, chief executive of the Christian charity Mothers' Union, that aimed to...

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  10. Side-effects of medical cuts (1 of 2)

    Your news story "Graduate doctors dread deep cuts" (23 June) rightly highlights the negative impact that the withdrawal of funding for graduate-entry medical degrees will have on widening access to...

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  11. Side-effects of medical cuts (2 of 2)

    As someone involved in postgraduate medical education, I am grateful to ÌÇÐÄVlog for warning of the huge fee impediments facing any future graduates "wanting to study medicine as a...

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  12. Principle needs clarification

    The report of my contribution to the recent British Academy discussion of the Haldane principle and the independence of research ("Haldane myth prevents a 'grown-up approach' to setting of research...

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  13. Points aren't everything

    G. Colborne is most likely confused owing to an understandable, but still erroneous, piece of conclusion-jumping (Letters, 23 June).There are justifiable reasons why many students accepted into...

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  14. All outputs are equal

    The opinion piece by Keith Kahn-Harris, "Let's broaden the definition" (23 June), lamented that the research excellence framework privileges peer-reviewed journal articles over other forms of...

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