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Transgressors with their amps turned up to 11
Extreme Metal
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Spirits reborn as martyrs and money-spinners
Mother Leakey and the Bishop
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The relentless rise of coffee-table cults
Household Gods
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Girls and families pay for one-child policy
China's Longest Campaign
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A vote for anarchy
The political philosopher Jacques Rancière would like to encourage the disruption of the normal order that is real democracy. Julian Baggini hears his campaign If you rage against the growth of...
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Dr Dai Llemmer
A reader writes: I was recently buttonholed in the rest rooms of the Athenaeum by a woman in dark glasses who said she was being interviewed for a named chair in biochemistry at a "discount-for-cash...
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Cross-fertilise and watch ideas bloom
Interdisciplinary working is on the rise, nowhere more than in health-related fields. Stephen Phillips meets a cancer research team, while Angela Shaw (below) shows the pitfalls awaiting new courses...
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There’s nothing original in a case of purloined letters
Plagiarism may seem a modern malaise, but accusations of ‘borrowing’ and outright theft of words and works were a scourge of 19th-century literary culture. Robert Macfarlane surveys opinion on...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Clerical errors" at Sheffield University led to three of a department's staff being listed wrongly on its website as having a PhD - The Times Higher , March 9. From: the Vice-Chancellor and Chief...
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Law will not help contract staff 1
I and many other academics have followed the debate concerning fixed-term contracts with bemusement verging on hysteria ("Changes to work law begin to bite", March 9). The idea that universities have...
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Law will not help contract staff 2
Further to articles on universities moving to reduce the number of fixed-term research contracts, I am writing with hope that this approach will be followed by Luton University (now Bedfordshire...
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Contrary to the report
If there is an award for imaginative reporting and perverse interpretation, I should like to nominate The Times Higher for the article "Scotland slams QAA's methods" (March 9). It refers to a report...
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Shameful stance
"To challenge a tutor is brave act" ran the headline on your letters page last week (March 9). So is blowing yourself up, but the people are still self-righteous fanatics. The harassment of David...
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Language alliance
You report that Russell Group universities are increasingly becoming the major providers of single honours language programmes ("Study deserts blight UK", February 9), and this is a likely...