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  1. What does it mean to be 'qualified'?

    As the wailing continues over the school-leavers "qualified" for university entry for whom there are no places available, we should reflect on what "qualified" means. Anyone who scrapes through A...

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  2. Tune in to excellence 1

    I am distressed at the prospect of the First Secretary and a host of civil servants spending their valuable time poring over "spidergrams" to judge universities' performance ("Pressure grows to...

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  3. Tune in to excellence 2

    Publication of comparative performance data in the form of spidergrams has been tried before. Between 2001 and 2004, the Home Office published similar statistics for police authorities in such form....

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  4. Selective memory

    I can't help thinking that the article on Malaysia ("Quintessentially Britain, truly Asia", August) may have crossed the line in suggesting that memories of the British colonial period are generally...

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  5. An incomplete picture

    Having just taken over as head of the School of Teaching, Health and Care at Bradford College, I was alarmed to read in your article "Call to raise entry criteria for trainee teachers" (20 August)...

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  6. Place the students first

    João Magueijo's opinion article caused me great concern regarding the self-awareness of some of our leading academics ("Dummies' guides to teaching insult our intelligence", 20 August). Good...

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  7. Darwinian politics

    In his obtuse review of Andre Pichot's The Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler ("Allocating blame in a selective way", August), Simon Underdown indulges in the pop-science fantasy that a clear line...

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  8. Don't give me a break

    Craving periods of uninterrupted time? A year without having to respond to emails? Tim Birkhead may be disappointed ("Lo, He created study leave", August).Although study leave may enhance...

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  9. Poppleton is recruiting

    I fear there has been some confusion in your advertising department.An advertisement for the University of Poppleton has been mistakenly attributed to the Higher Education Academy (page 53, 20 August...

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  10. Bear facts about the Bard 1

    Your annual feature on exam howlers ("The French Resistance made good use of the internet, you know", August) reminded me how keenly students of Shakespeare have illuminated plays I thought I knew...

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  11. Bear facts about the Bard 2

    In regards to your article on exam bloopers, I must share one of my favourites. It also relates to the quoted passage from Hobbes' Leviathan. However, on this exam the student declared that "life in...

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  12. 1984: It's coming

    In the 25 years since the iconic film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopia, US society has crept ever closer to its bleak vision of paranoia, surveillance, perpetual war and unthinkingness, fears...

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  13. Winning the war of independence

    The contrast between British and American higher education is nowhere more apparent than in the levels of scholarly freedom enjoyed by academics on opposite sides of the pond. Here, Paul A. Taylor...

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  14. Freedom eclipsed by danger

    David J. Gunkel applauds diversity, equality and protection of tenure at US colleges, but despairs at legislation that allows guns in the classroom

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  15. The small scientist

    Almost by accident, 25 years ago Alec Jeffreys discovered DNA fingerprinting and revolutionised criminal profiling. He tells Zoë Corbyn that 'the unexpected is what science should deliver'

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