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  1. IP's bottom-line gains may be fleeting

    Some of the arguments in your very useful survey of opinion on the scope for universities to generate income by licensing patented intellectual property ("A penny for your thoughts", 28 February)...

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  2. Citation pitfalls ahead

    Charles Oppenheim (Letters, 21 February) says previous studies "have shown excellent correlations between research assessment exercise scores and citation studies and therefore indicate citation...

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  3. Non-STEM Nomenclature 1

    In the debate about research assessment exercise/research excellence framework systems, it has become prevalent for "STEM" and "non-STEM" to be the rhetoric of the day. What is clearly needed is a...

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  4. Non-STEM Nomeclature 2

    As an economist, I suppose I am a non-STEMMER. But with the increasingly frequent use of the terms STEM and non-STEM in policy circles, I worry about my discipline's legitimacy. What we need is a...

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  5. Unmet pay needs

    I cannot speak for every lecturer at London Metropolitan University, but I doubt that any of them have been calling for the Higher Education Council for England to claw back money, given the blows to...

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  6. Discerning Cern's role

    It is a shame that an excellent leader was spoilt by a failure to check facts ("Pricing the brains of Britain", 28 February). "Where would we be, for instance, if Cern had decided to patent the...

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  7. American pipe dream

    You assert that "in America, administrators rather than faculty, appear to run the show" ("Waging a one-sided culture war", 21 February). How nice that would be for administrators if it were true. I...

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  8. Looking good on paper

    Why should anyone be surprised by the efforts at London Metropolitan University to encourage students to provide good National Student Survey ratings ("Probe ordered into 'manipulation'", 28 February...

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  9. Responsible response

    As the UK's principal funders of fundamental research, it is appropriate that our views on the research excellence framework are given such prominence ("Plans for RAE metrics draw fire from research...

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  10. Global intelligence

    In his elegant review of Stefan Collini's latest book, Ronan McDonald is wrong to dismiss Terry Eagleton's challenge to Collini's politics as "hollow" (Book of the Week, 28 February). One fine...

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  11. RCA is in the black

    Your article on funding for specialist institutions ("Special treatment", 28 February) states that the Royal College of Art had a deficit of £1.1 million in the last financial year. This excludes...

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  12. Bright idea

    If we must have the cliched image of a light bulb to represent an idea (Cover, 28 February), can we not at least upgrade to a low-energy bulb?Tony Harker, University College London.

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  13. Usage and abusage

    I note that in his work on the use of colons ("Colonic information", 28 February) James Hartley has adopted the appalling American convention of following a colon by a capital letter. I note that you...

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  14. Looking good on paper

    Why should anyone be surprised by the efforts at London Metropolitan University to encourage students to provide good National Student Survey ratings ("Probe ordered into 'manipulation'", 28 February...

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  15. Where the grass is greener

    More academics are weighing up job satisfaction against extracurricular factors such as house prices, local schools and even the weather. Esther Oxford reveals which institutions are most attractive...

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