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  2. Citation averages, 2000-2010, by fields and years

    Citation Averages, 2000-2010, by fields and yearsSource: Thomson Reuters' Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 2000-31 December 2010Years...

    #Research intelligence

  3. Two proposals to coax snouts out of troughs

    We should be grateful to Times Higher Education for so thoroughly researching the remuneration of university vice-chancellors ("Identity check", 24 March). It is indefensible that the highest levels...

    #Letters

  4. Private whipping boys

    While it is heartening to see the government trying to wrestle with the complex issues surrounding overseas students, its latest announcements have thrown up a number of inconsistencies ("Visa...

    #Letters

  5. Candid Cantor

    We should be grateful to Brian Cantor, chair of the Employers Pensions Forum, for coming clean about two things that we always suspected but our employers had previously denied ("In this climate, USS...

    #Letters

  6. Underneath the Ivies

    John Summers depicts an Ivy League education as a requirement for meaningful access to political power in the US ("Failure is not an option", 24 March). While many of Barack Obama's advisers are Ivy...

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  7. Eye, meet mote

    By allowing that "the reputation of the university, as a key institution of society, lies in its fearless pursuit of the truth", Malcolm Gillies succeeded in lifting at least one of my eyebrows a...

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  8. Craven collaboration

    The Arts and Humanities Research Council's decision to accede to the government's diktat to focus research on the "Big Society" is outrageous. It is bad enough that the coalition's market...

    #Letters

  9. Fightback on feedback

    Your anonymous opinion piece, "Maintain standards? That's way more than my job's worth" (17 March), reflects unease at the increasing volume of the "student voice" as a quality control instrument in...

    #Letters

  10. Tax irregularities

    I am trying to make sense of an inconsistency in the taxation of external-examiner fees.Since moving from Cambridgeshire to Leicestershire, I have discovered an irregularity in the way fees paid to...

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  11. Wizard of Ozymandias (1 of 2)

    I enjoyed Clive Bloom's "Hello, Yellow Brick Road" (17 March), but he repeats a myth that Frank Baum himself must have started about "Oz" having originated from the chance sighting of a filing...

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  12. Wizard of Ozymandias (2 of 2)

    It is interesting that there has been no media mention of the bicentenary of Shelley's expulsion from the University of Oxford on 25 March 1811. Is this because his crime was to disregard the first...

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  13. Ruling classes

    Are world leaders born or made? Can policy- based courses prepare the next generation for the challenges ahead? Harry Hoare discusses the role of philosophy in honing the hearts and minds of those...

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  15. Familiarity breeds competence

    As his report on university governance is released, Malcolm Gillies asserts that alumni will make the best governors as they are the ones who will hold the greatest stake in future

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