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  1. Opaque methodology

    The department of political science and international studies at the University of Birmingham had 5 per cent of its output rated "world leading" by the research assessment exercise. While this was...

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  2. Money talks 1

    It is extraordinary that Keith Hamill, president of the University of Nottingham council, should write without embarrassment to protest that you reported the salary of Sir Colin Campbell, former vice...

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  3. Money talks 2

    Sally Hunt's protest about staff salary increases is perplexing (Letters, 26 March). Higher Education Statistics Agency data compare average salaries across the whole population of academic staff, so...

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  4. Respect is due to Roper

    I noted with some concern the distasteful tone of David Hardman's letter about the departure of Brian Roper, vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University (26 March).Whatever the rights and...

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  5. Short-sighted decision

    At a recent meeting of the Academy of Social Sciences' College of Learned Societies, great concern was expressed about the research funding allocated to social sciences after the 2008 research...

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  6. Avoiding the questions

    According to John Brewer, president-elect of the British Sociological Association, "sociologists' subject matter has moved away from issues of class, power and inequality" towards concerns like "the...

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  7. Excuses, excuses

    The UK Border Agency (UKBA) now requires all private UK-based collaborative partners of British universities to be further accredited by one of a small number of designated private bodies, even if...

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  8. Well put

    You report Peter Williams, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, saying that "a lot of our power is the power of influence and fear" ("MPs call for toothless watchdog to be put down", 12...

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  9. Roy Anthony Becher, 1930-2009

    Roy Anthony Becher, a founding father of higher education research in Britain, has died.He was born in Poona, India, where his father was officiating director of artillery at Army Headquarters, on 19...

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  10. Oxford tutor accused of professional jealousy

    A popular biographer has accused her former University of Oxford tutor of "potent professional jealousy", in a row over credits in her work on Jane Austen.

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  11. Oxford's two v-cs happy to discuss access difficulty

    The vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University this week welcomed a question from MPs about why her university missed its target for recruiting state-school students.Janet Beer said she was "really...

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  14. From where I sit - Beggared by our own universities

    The current economic crisis proves everything leftists have ever said about the follies and cruelties of utopian capitalism - truly enough, anyway, to afford a moment at Wall Street's expense, and a...

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