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  1. A conspiracy against academic freedom (1 of 2)

    I was quietly reading Times Higher Education when all of a sudden a gang of some 100 frenzied historians appeared, intent, it seemed, on riotously attacking a certain David Starkey ("Starkey's a...

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  2. A conspiracy against academic freedom (2 of 2)

    Geoffrey K. Pullum's otherwise praiseworthy article, "Inflammatory language" (18 August), was marred by his comparison of David Starkey to the now infamous rose-quaffing Croydon looters.Verbally...

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  3. Reach out and touch them

    Following your article on the Higher Education Policy Institute's analysis of the higher education White Paper ("Elaborate, ineffectual and unfair: the White Paper takes a beating", 18 August), I...

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  4. Of the Book, but not on ours

    The article "Ditch 'baggage' at door of Muslim-Jewish course" (25 August) is in error in two respects. First, the University of Cambridge has not, as reported, approved the master's course referred...

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  5. Rank and filed

    "The mile is no longer a mile" (Letters, 25 August) and in a sense, that is as it should be. The job of A levels is to rank students in order: a place in tertiary education is (in the main) a case of...

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  6. Brand UK: so last century

    In November, I and thousands of students from Wales and Scotland travelled to London to march in solidarity with our English neighbours against the reckless actions of the Westminster government,...

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  7. Time to think again

    We are writing on behalf of the local branch committee of the University and College Union at Royal Holloway, University of London. The proposals to close the department of Classics and philosophy,...

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  8. Rewarding equality (1 of 2)

    In a letter to the Medical Schools Council on 29 July, the chief medical officer, Dame Sally C. Davies, outlined her intention that all medical schools that wish to apply for the National Institute...

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  9. Rewarding equality (2 of 2)

    I agree with Dame Athene Donald that gender diversity matters, but I wonder if her proposal would have the desired effects ("Where is Physics Barbie?", 25 August).First, we do not know the importance...

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  10. 'Fringe' and brackets

    The illustrations accompanying the article on the mess of funding arrangements in the different parts of the UK filled me with dismay ("Toll barriers", 25 August): England is urban and modern;...

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