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  1. Pick a number... any number

    Well, no, actually that won't do. Practical assessment of skills requires scrupulous fairness and clarity. Not only that, says Harriet Swain, students must be able to learn from the exercise, even...

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  2. Accentuate the positives and keep trying to improve

    Name : Jenni Grundy Age : 38 Job : Associate director ofstudent affairs, Anglia Ruskin University, managing student support services, student feedback (including module evaluation and the Anglia...

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  3. Ask the panel

    Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'Are there guidelines on what exactly constitutes an academic's duties? Does attending...

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  4. Who got that cash?

    Scientists have been awarded a €10 million (£6.8 million) grant to investigate the brain mechanisms behind addiction. The four-year project, funded by the European Commission, will involve 2,000...

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  6. Laurie Taylor Column

    "Universities are ranked according to their environmental performance in a new 'green' league table" - Times Higher , June 8 University of Poppleton From: The Chief Environmental Officer (formerly...

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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