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  2. Win-win way to square the funding circle 1

    This summer there will be 40,000 more unsuccessful university applicants than there were in 2008. This is because we have seen an 8 per cent rise in the number of applications, but institutions won't...

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  3. Win-win way to square the funding circle 2

    I fail to understand the disagreements about who should pay for the desperately needed increases in university funding. The relevant free-market principle is "he who pays benefits, he who benefits...

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  4. Win-win way to square the funding circle 3

    Your leading article proclaims that universities "have been doing much more for much less" ("Unite to fight the betrayal", 25 July). Pardon? Have they not seen major increases in undergraduate...

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  5. Very superstitious

    This year's Reith lecturer, Michael Sandel, has revealed his conservatism. During his first two talks, the Harvard University professor was at pains to appear open-minded. We had to wait for his...

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  6. Cultural creationism

    Angela McRobbie recommends Judith Butler's new book, Frames of War, for its "clear thread of continuity" with her early work in Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter, but that is a damning indictment...

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  7. Greens need big pinch of salt

    I was dismayed to learn that People and Planet had given Times Higher Education incorrect data for the recently published Green League table ("How green is my tally?", 18 June).As a result, my...

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  8. Be honest about externals

    Problems relating to the role of external examiners are unlikely to be resolved easily, especially given the idea that universities are not replicas of each other, so a central body responsible for...

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  9. Protect our sources

    Alec Gill blithely assumes that the rest of the world is like his own niche ("Let's simplify referencing", 25 June). The author-date system is, for good reason, unknown in my field and in many other...

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  10. Logic trap

    The research councils assert that "excellent research without obvious or immediate impact will not be disadvantaged" ("Petition decries 'impact' agenda in research", 11 June). But funds are limited,...

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  11. Snobs should back off

    There is little connection between undergraduate and postgraduate success ("Masters for less than high-flyers", 18 June).Poor performance at undergraduate level spurred me on to undertake the further...

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  12. First among equals

    Ruskin College, Oxford has run a successful MA in public history since 1996 ("Learn to tell history with a popular touch", 25 June). The assertion that the MA in public history at Royal Holloway,...

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  13. Age concern

    Am I the only person who has noticed that Keith Ponting is still only 30, despite being that age since the start of May last year?Roland Ibbett, Emeritus professor of computer science, Edinburgh.

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  14. No más

    I thank David Roberts for his response (Letters, 25 June). Case rested.Michael W. Thomas, Associate lecturer, The Open University.

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  15. Robert Sang, 1948-2009

    Robert Sang, the UK's first professor of patient and public involvement in health, has died.Born in Edinburgh on March 1948, he spent much of his early life in southern England, where his father was...

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