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  1. Client not customer 2

    Your correspondents (Letters, November 18) make some telling points against Sir Howard Newby's call for a more businesslike approach to student "customers" rather than the old-fashioned university "...

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  2. Money well spent?

    There are still many UK academics capable of excellent social research. And what do our human resource directors do? They conduct totally discredited "employee satisfaction surveys" then pay unknown...

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  3. Federal issues 1

    I was perplexed by your article "Politician warns Welsh will flock to leave unless alliance shifts" (November 18), about the federal University of Wales. This year's "moves... to allow (member...

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  4. Federal issues 2

    The Times Higher has carried stories about the Quality Assurance Agency's criticisms of the two great federal universities, London and Wales. In each case, auditors questioned how far the university...

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  5. Federal issues 3

    I see that once again Imperial College London is threatening to leave the federal structure of the University of London. Time, surely, for some old-time Stalinism here. Why doesn't the university...

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  6. Students set example

    That Italy's universities may be the provenance of a discrimination warranting the first European Court of Justice fines for discrimination is regrettable. ("Lettori in court to claim fines",...

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  7. US versus UK 1

    No one will dispute the value of more diversity, but adopting a US-style admissions system would take us back 50 years. Does Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto (Opinion, November 18) seriously imply that we...

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  8. US versus UK 2

    The US admissions system does have many merits. It has, however, been tested and scrutinised by the courts at every turn. The "Michigan cases" (Grutter and Gratz, 2003) follow a long line of cases...

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  9. US versus UK 3

    Felipe Fernández-Armesto is wonderful. His is the first completely honest evaluation of the UK and US admissions systems that I have ever read. It is surprising and uplifting. There is a way forward...

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  10. Open to equality

    The article "Salford staff claim bosses close ranks" (November 18) combines selective quotations from our recent survey of equality and diversity with some erroneous history to create a misleading...

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  11. Correction

    Owing to an editing error, the word "criticism" was omitted from the first line of the letter by Alastair Osborn in last week's Times Higher . It should have read; "I was perturbed to read criticism...

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  12. The might of the military tendency

    The role of warfare in 20th-century Britain has been ignored because historians have asked the wrong questions, David Edgerton tells Huw Richards David Edgerton is well accustomed to people...

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  13. Correction

    An editing error in the second sentence of Charles Townshend's article last week altered the meaning. The sentence should have read: "It was a proposal that was deeply subversive of the British legal...

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  14. Who will have the last word on digital frontier?

    Mandy Garner observes the flurry and potential fallout stirred up by Google's e-tail aspirations November has seen the trusty tugboat of academic publishing buffeted by a tidal surge of online book...

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  15. Spike story - before they spike you

    You're a political journalist on the trail of a story. Do you toe the party line or risk writing your own death warrant? Ivor Gaber faces the tricky task of training reporters in war-torn Uganda "The...

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