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  1. We need collaboration not concentration 2

    Am I the only one who squirmed with embarrassment at the plea for mercy by Michael Arthur as he feared sharing the post-RAE quality-related funding pot with "less" research-intensive universities?He...

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  2. Euthanasia is ethical option 1

    Soran Reader, who is facing risky neurosurgery, is not overstating matters when she argues that it is wrong that patients in the UK cannot ask for euthanasia ("It is monstrously wrong that patients...

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  3. Euthanasia is ethical option 2

    Until recently I was a higher education lecturer. I now have advanced breast cancer and anticipate a difficult death. Reassurances about pain relief and symptom control do not help the distress I...

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  4. Education's true nature

    I wonder if Eddie Blass was intending to be funny in serving up a perfect business definition of liberal education ("Nurture all-round talents", 15 January). She will certainly have displeased few...

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  5. Why we can't talk pay yet

    Since the damaging 2006 pay dispute, higher education employers have reflected long and hard and have pursued an agenda of reform to provide a framework for the continuation into the 21st century of...

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  6. A muddled reading

    While I am genuinely grateful for the attention paid to my book The Aftermath of Feminism (Books, 18 December), I am distressed and perplexed by the way in which I am portrayed as presenting a...

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  7. Online enlightenment

    Gordon Joly is wrong to state that the DSc, DLitt and so on are honorary degrees (Letters, January 15). Although they are often awarded honorarily, they can also be earned, typically by submitting a...

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  8. University of Bath - Nothing new for me, thanks

    A staff member and part-time student at the University of Bath is starting her second year of abstaining from shopping. Christine Bone, an administrator and student on the School of Management's MSc...

  9. University of Chester - A dig at communal excavations

    The lasting value of "community archaeology" - digs carried out by members of the public - has been questioned by an academic. Research by Howard Williams, senior lecturer in the department of...

  10. Kingston University - Bronze baby rescued from prison

    A valuable bronze sculpture of a baby that lay forgotten in an administration block at Holloway Prison has been rediscovered by an academic. The work, Happy Baby by Dora Gordine, had not moved since...

  13. Edge Hill University - Chinese studies launched

    Two courses have been launched in response to China's growth as a global power. From September, Chinese studies will be available at Edge Hill University as a joint honours programme with English or...

  15. University of Edinburgh - Galloway joins rector race

    George Galloway, the Respect MP and former contestant on Celebrity Big Brother, has joined the race to be rector of the University of Edinburgh. He faces two rivals - George Foulkes, a Labour MSP,...