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  1. Loud and clear

    Researchers didn't hold back when EPSRC head Paul Golby asked for feedback on the council's workings. Things will improve, he vows

    #Opinion

  2. News in brief

    Business schoolsExcluded middle costs us dearBusiness schools are failing to help mid-sized companies as much as they could and thus are holding back the UK's economy and society, a study has...

    #News

  3. Guess who's coming to dinner?

    Although our university failed to make the shortlist in any of the categories in this year's Times Higher Education Awards, as we go to press we learn that there may be a pleasant surprise in store...

    #Laurie

  4. Truly comprehensive education on cards

    The conversion of a higher education corporation into a company and group structure to accommodate overseas campuses and attract private investment does indeed present interesting options for the...

    #Letters

  5. Stars and martyrs

    Mahesan Niranjan ("Star-spangled clangers", Letters, 22 November) criticises the current fashion among vice-chancellors to recruit "big hitters" so as to enhance their university's research...

    #Letters

  6. Sever the doctoral link

    Regarding your coverage of the qualifications relevant for teaching in higher education ("Universal lesson to be learned" and "Proportion of academics with PhDs is 'low'", 1 November).The claim now...

    #Letters

  7. Data to end quota debate

    There is an easy way to answer the objection raised by Toby Young in his debate with Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws at the Oxford Union recently that capping the proportion of privately educated...

    #Letters

  8. Market has spoken: so?

    Can one be certain that someone who uses the phrase "interpersonal communication" knows what the humanities are about? ("Strategy for American humanities: blow them up and start again", Opinion, 8...

    #Letters

  9. Separate but equal

    Further to Stan Lester's letter "Compare like with like" (15 November) regarding "Second degree of separation" (News, 8 November): I would like to affirm that postgraduate training and education...

    #Letters

  10. Theoretical failure

    I fell about laughing on reading the first few paragraphs of Matthew Reisz's superb dissection of an academically loopy interpretation of his father Karel Reisz's work ("A voyage round my father", 22...

    #Letters

  11. Healthy distance

    Sue Norton's caution against first-name use ("Suitable address", Opinion, 1 November) rests on the correct sense that the classroom is not a democracy, that there is (one hopes) a "knowledge gap"...

    #Letters

  12. My sentiments exactly

    Roger Ottewill and Mary Brown suggest that teachers should continue to teach after retirement ("Life coaching", Letters, 22 November).Their responses to my letter ("Qualified expectations", 8...

    #Letters

  13. Hold the phone plan

    BT now employs less than 50 per cent of the people it did in 1984 when it was privatised. It is worth remembering this when considering useful role models for the future of higher education in this...

    #Letters

  14. Scaring the spooks away

    Christopher Bigsby argues that academia is a prime recruiting ground for espionage ("Smiley's people", Opinion, 22 November). Leaving aside the point that I am not inclined to spy on people, I have...

    #Letters

  15. Opportunity blocks

    Racial equality is sliding down the government’s agenda, says Sally Feldman

    #Columnists
    #Opinion
    #Sally Feldman