A shadow of humanity in a pit of evil
A Human Being Died that Night
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Collisions of faith and might still echo
Rome and Jerusalem
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The most faithful disciple?
Reading Judas
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Enriched by united progress
The European Economy since 1945
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: exams The Father We are losing a colleague this week, something that always rattles...
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Life in the City of High Intent
Best-selling novelist Fay Weldon talks to a sceptical friend about why her post at Brunel University has turned her into Pollyanna. " Oh, fancy, you a professor! What of? " "Creative writing." "...
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Dr Dia Llemmer
A reader writes: Sir, I have the honour of acting as my university's public orator, an office in which I have celebrated the achievements of many luminaries from the worlds of academe, industry,...
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Signs of life
Is the distinction between nature and culture false because nature evolved to interact in codes? Geoff Watts gets a primer in signals right down to the genetic level. Semiotics is the study of signs...
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Specials index 3
Learning & skills in HE Published: June 01 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track Work-based learning Published: May 11 2007 "One of the most important ways...
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Specials index 4
Microsoft supplement Published: June 22 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track  ...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Leeds Metropolitan University plans to impose a set of 'attitudes and behaviours' that includes the expectation that academic staff will 'go the extra mile', show 'courtesy and respect' and have a '...
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Why we cancelled Kuntzel 1
Matthias Kuntzel asks: "Is there no longer room for debate?" at Leeds University (Opinion, March 23). There certainly is. We are committed to promoting and encouraging debate, inquiry and protest. We...
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Why we cancelled Kuntzel 2
When academics fail to argue for their freedom, how do they expect students to treat university as anything more than the first step on the career ladder? Matthias Kuntzel's attempted lecture was...
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Friends, not foes
The issues confronting lecturers and researchers are more complex than you allow ("Hunt faces rough ride from Left on NEC", March 23). The commercialisation and commodification of higher learning and...