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  2. Who will speak up for languages?

    These are testing and paradoxical times for universities' modern languages departments. A significant number have closed in recent years; others have been hacked to the bone, nearing the point of...

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  3. Wide web of best practice

    In your article "Deciphering the code" (19 August) you provided a (somewhat confusing) league table of the best-performing institutional websites as judged by a group of sixth-formers. While the...

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  4. Shining a light on NGOs

    Matthew Reisz ("Criticism of universities has provoked a sharp response", 26 August) mischaracterises NGO Monitor.As is clear from our publications and website, NGO Monitor is a highly credible...

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  5. STEM needs more branches

    I have been enjoying the articles about STEM in your magazine. When I first saw the acronym, I interpreted it spontaneously as referring to science, technology, English and mathematics, until I...

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  6. Proxy strengths may vary

    Phil Baty (World University Rankings column, 19 August) tells us that citations data are "widely accepted as a strong proxy for research quality" and they "will have a high weighting" in the Times...

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  7. Fair winds ahead

    The potential for up to 50,000 new jobs in the offshore wind energy sector is welcome news indeed, and it will of course require the necessary skills to fill this tremendous number of opportunities...

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  8. It's discrimination, full stop

    Does anyone else find the phrase "reverse discrimination" somewhat offensive and patronising ("A straight case of discrimination? Lawsuits come in all shades for US institutions", 26 August)?...

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  9. Science needs effective PR

    Zoë Corbyn's article "Trial by error" (26 August) depressingly restates the same sterile arguments made too many times in the past 30 years. Researcher versus media disagreements will continue until...

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  10. A few home truths

    I have been visiting professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, several times in the past few years and have taught in different universities in Europe and elsewhere. I simply do not...

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  11. One rule for all applicants

    The Sunday Times' claim, repeated in Times Higher Education, that "a reporter posing as a Russian applicant was told by universities including ... Leicester ... that she could get a place with A-...

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  12. Data, but no context

    Some 40 years after the publication of E.P. Thompson's book Warwick University Limited, you report on a new survey in which the majority of respondents at UK universities agreed fairly strongly or...

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  13. Celia Gallagher, 1967-2010

    A leading figure in the planning and funding of the Irish university sector has died.Celia Gallagher was born in Donegal on 24 April 1967 and spent her childhood on Arranmore Island.After a first...

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  14. Last of the summer wine

    Yes, it's that time of year when we once again absent ourselves from felicity and return our noses to the familiar grindstone. But before we say goodbye to summer, here in the last of our Holiday...

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