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  1. Student ambassadors

    Outreach to schools is a core responsibility, so pick candidates for the role of student ambassador with care and monitor their progress

    #Teaching

  2. University of Northampton

    • Claire Harrison-Breed has been appointed senior lecturer in social work• Mark Allenby has been appointed senior lecturer in social work• Stuart Allen has been appointed senior lecturer in human...

    #People
    #Science

  4. It's no go the logo!

    Staff were left reeling this week at the news that after only two months' official use, our university's expensive new logo was to be abandoned. Explaining the shock move, our Deputy Director of Logo...

    #Laurie

  5. We've come to a sticky end

    Tasks like ordering tape and test tubes halt academic work, Tim Birkhead finds

    #Columnists
    #Guest columnist
    #Opinion
    #Tim Birkhead

  7. James Walsh, 1930-2008

    James (Jim) Walsh was an administrator with a touch of the Bohemian, who helped steer the University of Leeds through turbulent times in the 1980s.Dr Walsh, who died on 30 January, aged 77, helped...

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  8. Civic pride versus damned statistics 1

    I read the Halifax-Times Higher Education quality-of-life index ("Where the grass is greener", 6 March) with interest and amusement. As the adage goes, there are lies, damned lies and statistics ......

    #Letters

  9. Civic pride versus damned statistics 2

    As somebody who works in the university with what is apparently the worst quality of life in the UK, I found the survey bizarre. What was the relative weighting of the various indicators?Was traffic...

    #Letters

  10. Civic pride versus damned statistics 3

    Working in the urban squalor of a university rated 119th, I can only envy those more fortunate colleagues, located mainly in the south of England, who wake up to the sound of larks ascending and the...

    #Letters

  11. Civic pride versus damned statistics 4

    The quality-of-life table was an unsubtle version of the old adage that it's grim up north. I suggest that the categories are reorganised so that the discovery of the obvious is not so blatant next...

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  12. Civic pride versus damned statistics 5

    Do academics in Bucks New University, the University of Surrey and Royal Holloway really have a better quality of life than those in Manchester, Sheffield, Oxford and Cambridge? Lots of "goodies" in...

    #Letters

  13. Civic pride versus damned statistics 6

    Thanks for cheering me up. I haven't laughed so much in ages. Bringing April Fool's Day forward was a great idea. I guess those fortunate people who work at the universities of Surrey and Winchester...

    #Letters

  14. It adds up to exaggeration

    Your coverage of our plans to increase the impact of our investments is misleading ("RCUK abandons impact formula"; "What price knowledge?", 6 March). We are interested in retrospectively...

    #Letters

  15. Named and ashamed

    I have never had the guts to study onomastics (Letters, 28 February).John Craven, Vice-chancellor, University of Portsmouth.

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