Sophisticated scrutiny (2 of 2)
David Willetts states that the modelling undertaken by London Economics in relation to the assessment of the resource accounting and budgeting (RAB) charge for higher tuition fees in England is "...
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Up close, too personal
An open letter to Sally HuntWe note the results of the ballot to effect constitutional change in the University and College Union as communicated by you in March. We believe this ballot was conducted...
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Alive and kicking
Regarding "Hefce's purse strings may be tied to concordat" (News, 7 June). Some readers may be under the impression that the UK Research Integrity Office shut down when its public funding ended in...
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Misdiagnosis mea culpa
Peter Butler and Andrew Sturdy ("What doctors need is a dose of fairness", Letters, 31 May) suggest that in "The kindness of strangers" (24 May) I argue in favour of passing PhDs on compassionate...
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Japan's light under bushel
In "Beyond those shores"(7 June), Times Higher Education equates the divergence between Japan and the rest of the world in higher education terms with an intellectual deficit on the part of the...
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Draw the lines
Surely people should be given lines for sniffing cocaine, not smoking cannabis ("'Let's give every schoolboy lines for smoking cannabis'", News, 31 May)? I should stress that I am drawing on...
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Accidentally on purpose
Your otherwise excellent leader ("The best that money can't buy", 31 May) would have been better still had the word "unintended" been omitted from "has had the unintended consequence of driving grade...
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No sex please, we're Essex
I was briefly worried at what our position (?) at the bottom (?) of the "University Sex League" might do to student recruitment, but a colleague pointed out how pleased parents will be (The week in...
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Appointments
University of BathConrad EarnestA professor of health and exercise has swapped the bayou for Bath. Conrad Earnest, who joined the University of Bath in April from the Pennington Biomedical Research...
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Campus round-up
London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineSeasonal shift in malaria warGiving young children medicine once a month during the rainy season could prevent tens of thousands of malaria deaths....
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We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today
Street life, dazzling dress, social commentary and a riot of sensuous colour interweave in a rich assembly of West African art, writes Charles Gore
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From Where I Sit - You get what you pay for
Quebec's student protests have garnered global media attention, and it's about time - the student strike began almost four months ago and the related civil disobedience has paralysed the province's...
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The week in higher education
• Universities often argue that schools play a larger part in deciding the future of youngsters from poorer backgrounds, but a new book says the academy could be to blame for creating a social super-...