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  1. Private income does not equal tyranny 1

    It is certainly true that there is a "Global revolution" in private provision (26 November), notably in Central and Eastern Europe. As someone who has planned, managed and is now chairing the...

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  2. Private income does not equal tyranny 2

    A critical component of UK government policy towards private providers of higher education must be to ensure that boards of directors (and the shareholders who appoint them) have no say in academic...

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  3. Evidence, not assertion 1

    If Sally Hunt's article "The worst of all worlds" (3 December) and the University and College Union petition were my only sources of information about the research excellence framework, I'd want to...

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  4. Evidence, not assertion 2

    In the powerful revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre, one word between Brick and Big Daddy signals the turning point in the drama: "mendacity".Throughout the 3 December issue of...

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  5. Evidence, not assertion 3

    Dave Delpy "reminds us that research is ultimately about offering solutions to society's challenges" ("They're not unreasonable", 26 November). Odd, that; I've spent my research career thinking I was...

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  6. Level doctoral field

    Aldwyn Cooper intones the familiar - and boring - jeremiad that to suppose that "a first-class degree from one (institution) has the same value as from another ... is absurd" ("It's time to set fees...

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  7. This is no corporate model

    Some of the views expressed by commentators in your article on the University of Oxford/National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship's Entrepreneurial University Leadership Programme constitute a...

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  8. Support your support staff?

    As a significant part of their workforce, universities employ two groups of people: administrators, who have a single-tier workload - administration; and academics, who have a workload consisting of...

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  9. Facts, not fiction

    I hardly think that John Nash was "immortalised in the Hollywood film A Beautiful Mind" ("Beautiful minds converge to inspire Nobel prizewinners of the future", 12 November). Rather, I think it is...

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  10. Existential design

    The top edge of the "People" section in your publication usually consists of a row of 11 bright-faced, bushy-tailed individuals ("Appointments"), followed by one rather more sombre photograph at the...

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  11. University College London - Resistance movement

    Antibiotic resistance in bacteria found in humans is to be investigated by a £4.5 million research project led by University College London. The project, funded by a European Community grant, will...

  12. University of Salford - Regional support

    A lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender research network for northwestern England has been launched by the University of Salford. The institution hopes that the network will link research already...

  13. University of Manchester - Seeds of change

    Plants that respond better to changes in the environment - giving greater crop yields under conditions of global warming - could be developed following a study into weeds that grow in pavement cracks...

  15. King's College London - Games up for cheaters

    Cheating athletes are to be targeted by an anti-doping laboratory run by King's College London during the Olympic Games in 2012. King's has joined forces with GlaxoSmithKline to enable the university...