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  1. Leader: Cosmopolitan campuses

    UK academe must rank as one of the most international sectors of the country's economy. According to the latest figures, a fifth of all academics originate from overseas. In some subjects, namely...

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  2. Leader: A collegial choice

    What would be the attributes of your dream vice-chancellor? Someone with the backbone to stand up to the bureaucratic demands of the Quality Assurance Agency? One with the chutzpah to throw off the...

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  3. Unite against the bean-counters 1

    So research is being wrecked by "bean-counters", as your front page had it (June 1). Isn't it about time that public-service employees started to fight back against the absurd notion that the so-...

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  4. Unite against the bean-counters 2

    I was very interested to read the criticisms of the research assessment exercise and especially the point that a Nobel prizewinner would not have met most of Imperial College London's performance...

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  5. Divisions over boycott 1

    Jules Townshend (Letters, June 1) attacks the "complicity" of Israeli universities in occupying the West Bank and Gaza. Since when have universities, given the diversity of opinions within them,...

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  6. Divisions over boycott 2

    Much has been written and said since delegates to the University and College Union Congress passed Motion 30 regarding a possible boycott of Israeli universities. Unfortunately, more heat than light...

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  7. Divisions over boycott 3

    As a result of the University and College Union vote in favour of a boycott against Israel, I will be resigning my longstanding membership of the union. I have no connections with Israel whatsoever,...

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  8. Divisions over boycott 4

    Open Letter to the women's study programme at Bir-Zeit University, Palestine The Israeli Association for Feminist and Gender Studies stands in solidarity with our fellow teachers and students at the...

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  9. No to BFI realignment

    Following the letter by 48 film academics expressing concern about the future of the British Film Institute (Letters, June 1), readers should note that subsequent announcements confirm that the BFI...

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  10. Best foot forward

    Gary Day's dig at Leicester (Opinion, June 1) for producing "University Walks" - to promote the benefits of walking- goes to prove one thing: he may be part of an institutional culture that talks the...

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  11. NHS research plea

    As someone who has recently gained permission to conduct his MRes dissertation research in two departments of a local hospital, I agree with the recent articles highlighting the obstacles researchers...

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  12. Second-class honour

    Your article on the hourly paid ("Hourly work but daily challenges", Working Knowledge, June 1) is timely given that in many universities the pay of the hourly paid is currently being negotiated as...

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  13. Oxbridge not enough

    I endorse the views of the vice-chancellor of Durham University ("Our stars were not born in a vacuum", Opinion, June 8). Research needs feedback, criticism, extension: ideas were not born in a...

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  14. Not so very deep

    In your learning skills in higher education supplement, "Deep learning" (June 1), we were offered "transform your indigestible lectures into bite-sized chunks" and "ten top tips for e-learning...

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  15. In search of the good life

    With Glastonbury Festival on June 22-24, Marion Bowman probes the host town's spiritual economy, Paul Heelas investigates spirituality in the workplace and Kate Soper asks whether rejecting...

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