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  1. Leader: Premium brand at risk

    Perceptions that the UK is 'aloof' from the Bologna Process are grossly unfair - but they could prove damaging

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    #Opinion

  2. John Barron, 1934-2008

    John Barron, a Classics scholar who played a key role in the reform of British higher education, has died.He was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, on April 1934, the son of a mathematics teacher, and...

    #People

  3. Oxford won't take second best to hit targets, says Patten

    The chancellor of the University of Oxford entered the debate on university admissions this week, saying that it was "as offensive" to suggest that Oxford was biased against independent schools as to...

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    #News
    #University of Oxford

  4. Free debate is the way to defeat creationism 1

    Michael Reiss, former education director at the Royal Society, is right ("Royal Society is considering casting out God", 25 September), creationism needs to be defeated by open debate. By ignoring it...

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  5. Free debate is the way to defeat creationism 2

    James D. Williams (Letters, 25 September) asks for more peer-reviewed research from the "intelligent-design creationist" school of thought. Is he unaware of what happens on those rare occasions when...

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  6. Not at all vulnerable

    I am pleased that the article "Lower fees for foreign students" (25 September) recognised the University of Bedfordshire's great strength in international recruitment. However, by underestimating the...

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  7. Good news for journalism

    How disappointing to read Tim Luckhurst, the new director of the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent, suggesting that journalism studies offers practitioners only "meagre pickings" and...

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  8. Schwartz did not back SATs

    Your report on recent research into US-style SATs was wrong in stating that the Schwartz inquiry into fair admissions recommended the use of these tests ("The week in higher education", 18 September...

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  9. Full-cost fees are not fair 1

    George Psacharopoulos states that institutions should charge full-cost fees up to and beyond the £20,000-plus that the University of Oxford has been saying for some time it needs to cover its annual...

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  10. Full-cost fees are not fair 2

    The key flaw in George Psacharopoulos' argument for charging full-cost fees is that universities do not produce "average graduates". They produce some graduates who earn relatively little during...

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  11. A campus carry-on

    Thanks for reminding us all of that lost classic of saucy British cinema Carry on up the Quad ("Striptease results in official campus cover-up", 18 September), in which Mac Daly, cultural studies...

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  12. Lacking in evidence

    After a successful British Educational Research Association (Bera) conference, it was disappointing to read Dennis Hayes' denunciation of education research across the whole of UK academia ("Forget...

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  13. Plugging the policy gap

    In your rush to stoke a non-existent dispute about metrics ("Humanities overlooked by politicians", 18 September), you missed the point of the British Academy's recent report on the contribution that...

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  14. A stroke of luck

    "The big marking experiment" (18 September) raises the following questions. The reported span among grades may be encouragingly narrow, but those differences might matter all the more in a finely...

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