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  1. Choice cut (1 of 2)

    David Eastwood asks "Who's afraid of student choice?" (11 November) and accuses the academy of "timidity". But the Browne Review designates "priority subjects" without regard to student choice or...

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  2. Choice cut (2 of 2)

    Eastwood's defence of the Browne Review relies on wishful thinking. He predicts that "students will enter as discriminating and informed applicants and will study as expectant and committed learners...

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  3. Spirited opposition

    Your article "Bristol v-c faced no opposition in bid to become UUK president" (18 November) fails to paint the full picture. Universities UK's strategy regarding the government's cuts programme and...

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  4. Illume the heart of darkness

    Yes, a great many so-called "historical" novels are trash ("History in the faking", 18 November). Is War and Peace also trash? I ask mainly because Leo Tolstoy was scathing about the contributions of...

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  5. If always broke, fix it

    Peter Geoghegan argues that the massive student protest in London on 10 November reflected real anger and is likely to be the first of many ("Student riots, the first taste of the fruits of unbridled...

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  6. Great - more red tape!

    Aaron Porter, the president of the National Union of Students, is absolutely right ("New market, new rules: NUS signals consumer revolution", 18 November). Only by diverting a greater proportion of...

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  7. Law of the excluded middle

    As an American teenager, I considered many West Coast and New England institutions, but after a visit to the University of St Andrews, I realised that it was a cheaper option - even with the expense...

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  8. Mission impossible

    I'm afraid Martin A. Mills is deluded ("A grand unified theory of man", 18 November). Such a theory is neither possible nor desirable, because it could never accommodate the natural and social...

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  9. Meditation's what you need

    Meditation is not a fitting member of a list of "treatments that many regard as having unproven efficacy at best" ("No 'magic bullet': try this amulet", 18 November).The mental-health benefits that...

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  10. A big bang is off the cards

    With Browne's vision fading, Alan Ryan bemoans a lack of creative thinking

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  11. From where I sit - Scholarship, ubuntu and hope

    South Africa is a young society, unsure of itself. The Union was formed in 1910, a republic was declared in 1961, and the black majority won the franchise in 1994. South Africa 3.0 is at a crossroads...

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  12. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

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  14. Leader: Embrace the burden of truth

    Scientists must learn that it is right for those outside the academy to be able to challenge their results through the FoI Act

  15. Odds and quads

    These handbills come from the John Bramwell Taylor Collection, which forms part of the University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive.

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