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  2. From where I sit: Tedious politics, derelict academy

    I have seen many election campaigns, but the one taking place in Germany right now is by far the most boring. It is easy to see why: 62.2 million Germans will cast their votes on September, and their...

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  4. Scholars are failing the integrity test 1

    Two recent pieces in Times Higher Education struck me as shocking and pathetic. Richard Austen-Baker's determination to blame school teachers and educationists for the weaknesses of teaching in UK...

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  5. Scholars are failing the integrity test 2

    Once again we have an extraordinary letter that suggests that education is different from any other subject taught at university. I very much doubt that Richard Austen-Baker would agree that lawyers...

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  6. Evidence? What evidence?

    According to Phil Baty (Leader, 17 September), now is the time for the higher education sector to unite to make its case for enhanced public investment. He says: "It is obvious that we have a strong...

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  7. High cost of 'diplomacy'

    After the furore surrounding MPs' expenses, it was with amazement that I read the news item about the use of university funds by Simon Lee, former vice-chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University,...

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  8. Quote, unquote

    In an item on the celebratory 25th birthday issue of Wasafiri ("Worthy traveller: publication that reshaped the landscape turns silver", 17 September), an article of mine in the birthday issue was...

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  9. Not dead, just unborn

    When one compares today's bloated, interventionist US Government with its minimalist counterpart of 1900, it is difficult to take seriously Gerald Houseman's contention that "privatising and non-...

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  10. Mental workout

    Some of the sympathetic reactions to a university's micromanagement strategy ("You want jobsworths? Then pay us what the job's worth", 10 September) betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the...

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  11. Should have known better

    While I was delighted to see my academic speciality, the Beatles, featured in Gary Day's column (17 September), I was less impressed with the factual errors the column contained.It was George...

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  12. No surprises

    I suppose that the omission of science and engineering topics from your latest Textbook Guide (17 September) is unsurprising, given their consistent absence from your weekly Books section.Greg...

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  13. Sinned against and sinning

    It would be charitable to assume that the essay on Lust ("Seven Deadly Sins", 17 September) was a spoof, designed to remind us of the nastiness of a certain kind of man-to-man talk. But perhaps...

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  14. Get it out in the open

    From downloads of lectures to entire courses for free, Rebecca Attwood reports on how universities are fitting open educational resources into their missions and marketing

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  15. Digging deeper

    Tourists can now visit even the most far-flung destinations, but Judith Weingarten believes that one must settle in for a long stay to get a real sense of foreign lands

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