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  1. Holiday Edition - Rats go camping

    In what must surely be a vacation first, Dr Fritz Itzig of our Department of Comparative Animal Studies will be accompanied by 24 of his prized experimental rats during his forthcoming two-week...

    #Laurie

  2. Back to the future to verify standards

    Your recent leader makes some telling points ("Standards issue can't be evaded", 6 August). It ends with the statement: "An independent, robust body that safeguards standards and protects the...

    #Letters

  3. Storm is no surprise

    Having steered an institution through the severe deflation that the Thatcher Government imposed on British universities in the 1980s, the present unrest comes as no surprise ("Storm warning: change...

    #Letters

  4. Charitable works 1

    Nicholas Bamforth correctly notes that Hefce "is restricted in using its powers under charity legislation" ("There's no need to be charitable over external governor appointments", 6 August). He...

    #Letters

  5. Charitable works 2

    Nicholas Bamforth is right that the restrictions in Section 73A of the Charities Act 2006 (which require a majority of the trustees of a charity to be unremunerated by it) do not apply to employees....

    #Letters

  6. Feminist cry rings untrue 1

    Sally Feldman seems very sure of her facts ("Don't celebrate yet, girls", 13 August). She assures us that it is "clearly not the case" that her female-dominated media courses discriminate against...

    #Letters

  7. Feminist cry rings untrue 2

    Sally Feldman's account of women entering higher education has a Scottish dimension that can be found in the autobiographical novels of Willa Muir, Catherine Carswell and Nan Shepherd. Their...

    #Letters

  8. Flexible friend

    I am concerned that aspects of your story about penalties for the over-admission of students will have misled readers as to what is happening in Scotland ("SFC refuses to relax over-recruitment rules...

    #Letters

  9. Dearing unheeded

    Further education colleges are not new players in undergraduate education and only journalists have dubbed them "new polytechnics" ("Degrees of freedom", 13 August).However, it was the Dearing...

    #Letters

  10. Compounded error

    On my return from a research trip to China, I dutifully read through the accumulated back issues of Times Higher Education. My gratification on seeing that you had published my letter (30 July)...

    #Letters

  11. Shaky sources

    I can't be the only one concerned about Bruce Charlton's comments on grade inflation (Letters, 13 August). I'm not sure if I'm more worried about his assumption that half of students achieving one...

    #Letters

  12. Violent talk

    I trust that your review of the use of non-discriminatory language will be extended to the University of Poppleton ("Staff continue using terms deemed inappropriate by PC language advice", 6 August...

    #Letters

  13. Taking the acronym

    Following the observation that Thames Valley University was advertising for a post in "Strategic Hospitality Information Technology" (Letters, 30 July), I see that Roskilde University (same issue,...

    #Letters

  14. Retractions up tenfold

    ‘Publish or perish’ factor in withdrawal of science papers. Zoe Corbyn reports

    #News

  15. From where I sit - Success by fair means or foul

    He Chuanyang, an 18-year-old boy from Chongqing, found himself in the national spotlight when the results of the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) were published earlier this summer.He...

    #From Where I Sit
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    #Opinion