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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    Some departments meet the QAA requirement to publish external examiners' reports online by providing their own summaries - The Times Higher, October 13 . Right, Maureen. What's the first line of...

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  2. Leader: Local solutions to national needs

    Compact schemes were among the first manifestations of a proactive approach by universities to broadening their intake of students - and in many cases the most successful. Demand for higher education...

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  3. Leader: Transparency's limits

    The decision to post summaries of external examiners' reports on the Teaching Quality Information website was a headline-grabbing initiative that few expected to be worthwhile. Ministers wanted an...

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  4. RAE frenzy is destroying teaching 1

    "Bonus culture sweeps sector" (October 13) told only half the story. It said that university managements were resorting to various forms of performance-related pay for "top-performing academics" and...

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  5. RAE frenzy is destroying teaching 2

    The performance-related measures being introduced are based on a simplistic managerial theory of human behaviour for which there is scant evidence. In fact, there are several problems with target-...

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  6. Quality consideration 1

    Whatever the merits or otherwise of metrics in research assessment, if it results in greater concentration of funding ("Treasury focus on top 10", October 13), this is sufficient in itself to reject...

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  7. Quality consideration 2

    Gill Howie is right to raise the question of equal opportunities in relation to the future assessment of research ("Government models 'disastrous'", October 13). It is not the Equality Challenge Unit...

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  8. Quality consideration 3

    Paul Taylor illustrated his condemnation of the research assessment exercise with evidence from The Times Higher's table of top universities (Opinion, October 13). He points out that the UK (...

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  9. Get the right ratio

    "Workloads go through roof" (October 6) painted an inaccurate picture of the student-to-staff ratio at University of the Arts London. The figures used were based on Higher Education Statistics Agency...

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  10. More to life than life? 1

    I'm looking forward to reading The Goldilocks Enigma (Features, October 13), but I do hope that Paul Davies gives as much attention to the porridge as he does to Goldilocks. However "just right" the...

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  11. More to life than life? 2

    Paul Davies's question "why is the universe just right for life?" is misconceived. The Earth has been suited to the maintenance of life for several billion years. But all its multifarious life forms...

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  12. No censorship

    Far from censoring criticism of course quality ("Exam feedback skewed", October 13), institutions were providing information on external examiners in the required format. This does not ask for detail...

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  13. International English

    Felipe Fernández-Armesto's argument contains something of a contradiction (Opinion, October 13). On the one hand, he praises the English spoken by the Dutch in Leiden for its greater "respect for...

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  14. Languages not lost

    Cambridge University has not abandoned the teaching of Sanskrit and Hindi within the university ("Hindi axed as PM honoured", October 13) Sanskrit will continue to be taught to undergraduates reading...

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  15. Heads or tails?

    The Poppleton University approach to deciding on degree classifications by the tossing of a coin (Laurie Taylor, October 6) is of course entirely proper - save for one crucial factor that the...

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