Letter: A cooperative process
Your leader, "Bologna offers Eurosceptics a poor poll target", ( THES , May 25) judges the process of trying to form a boundary-free space for higher education in Europe solely in terms of its being...
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Letter: Shrunken headhunters
The article on what it takes to be a vice-chancellor these days ("Hunt for the new breed of leader", THES , May 18) mentioned headhunters in general and one - Odgers, Ray and Berndston - in...
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Letter: Speak up, academy
David Eastwood (Letters, THES , May 18) has misrepresented my point of view. I did not suggest that the Arts and Humanities Research Board was in any sense "the British Academy's creature", though I...
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Letter: Complex questions
The question that Gene Rowe should be asking about complex issues ("The right way for a public say", THES , May 25) is not "how should science consult the citizen" but "how should the citizen consult...
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Letter: Getting the score right
We wish to correct a factual error in our letter ( THES , May 25). The universities of North and East London and London Guildhall University were not "bottom of the league" in student-to-staff ratios...
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Letter: Fee fears and campaign pledges (1)
The news that the Blairite think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, is backing university top-up fees ("Top-ups back to spook Labour", THES , May 25) should alarm all who oppose the...
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Letter: Fee fears and campaign pledges
There is absolutely no question of top-up fees being introduced in the next Parliament, as your story suggested last week. Our manifesto makes it abundantly clear that, if elected, we would continue...
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