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Gary Day watches Michael Portillo learn about violence, but is baffled by his lack of self-knowledge
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What beliefs are protected under the Religion or Belief Regulations?
The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations were amended in 2007 to prohibit direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation on the grounds of any religion or belief. “...
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Top European institutions in clinical medicine
Data provided by Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 December 2008
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Out of the ordinary
All of us on the editorial team of The Poppletonian are so fascinated by Off Piste, the fortnightly series in ÌÇÐÄVlog in which academics step outside their area of expertise, that we'...
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The trouble with tables
As they stand, university rankings do not make sense, says Alan Ryan
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: Racing demon
The individual aspects of motor racing can be intellectually appreciated, but the sum of the total adds up to a pure, gut-stirring experience that's all about feeling, enthuses Sir Drummond Bone
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Leader: Is that a fist or just a firm hand?
The conventions and traditions of academia make it especially difficult to pinpoint what constitutes bullying behaviour
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From where I sit - Toxic result of corrosion of ethics
The ethics of Chinese scholars have come under intense scrutiny following a recent scandal in the country.In mid-February, 80 people in the city of Guangzhou were poisoned after eating pork that...
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Olivia Harris, 1948-2009
Olivia Harris, a leading anthropologist, has died.She was born on 26 August 1948, grew up in Surrey, was educated in Kent and studied Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She then switched to...
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Clever conceit won't protect free speech
The group Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) confuses freedom of speech with academic freedom, and thus undermines both ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May).It claims...
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Losing balance
In your story on the student disruption of a conference advocating closer ties between universities and industry ("Protesters disrupt business-link conference", 14 May), you first reported the...
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Degrees of scrutiny
You report the possible acquisition of BPP by the Apollo Group ("For-profit growth predicted if US giant buys UK's BPP", 14 May). If this happens, the legal responsibility for BPP's degree awards...
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Parental requiem
Alec Ryrie seems to imply in his (absolutely appropriate) commendation of Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars ("The Canon", 7 May) that the book is "dedicated to God himself". I have no idea...
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Different wavelengths
I am surely not alone in being puzzled by the "Top journals in computer science" (Research intelligence, 14 May). By far the strangest inclusion was the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation...