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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    Cardiff University is analysing the reasons for an 18 per cent first-year student dropout in social sciences - The Times Higher, July 1 From: Jamie Targett, Head of Corporate Development I'm...

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  2. Leader: Too many eggs in a fragile basket

    British universities are becoming increasingly dependent on overseas students' fees - dangerously so, many good judges believe. Jonathan Nicholls, the registrar of Birmingham University, cites one...

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  3. Leader: A brave Scottish start

    Scotland has often led the UK - and much of the world - in higher education. It may have another winner in its much-vaunted quality enhancement system. A relatively light-touch regime seems to...

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  4. Power point

    The reviewer of the Encyclopedia of Energy states that there are no links to a web-based resource and expresses the hope that the publishers find some way to produce an electronic version (Books,...

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  5. Links with Africa better than aid 1

    Africa's loss due to its intellectual diaspora may not be as absolute as The Times Higher coverage suggests (Opinion and Features, July 1). Many of us retain ties with our "mother continent" and...

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  6. Links with Africa better than aid 2

    More detailed analysis is needed about what happens to starry-eyed returners when African governments go bad. Zimbabwe makes a good case study. Five years ago, few Zimbabweans lived in exile, self-...

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  7. Links with Africa better than aid 3

    Live8 may have been a great pop concert but surely more could be done by UK universities to encourage African politicians to participate in education that has a good measure of moral philosophy,...

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  8. Links with Africa better than aid 4

    Your articles miss one key fact: institutions such as the University of Cape Town train many talented people, but if they are white they is no way they will get a job in South Africa. Its affirmative...

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  9. Potential difference 1

    I wonder at stories that accuse the Higher Education Academy of failing to do things it was not set up to do ("Put lecturers first, academy told", July 1). My friend and colleague Ron Barnett is...

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  10. Potential difference 2

    The Higher Education Academy can champion the role of teaching by listening to Ron Barnett and Alan Jenkins. The HEA board, dominated as it is by managerial and government interests, cannot be...

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  11. Hefce taken to task 1

    The suggestion that institutions might "gamble in the last-chance saloon" ("Funding councils unveil new submissions criteria", July 1) at the next research assessment exercise by citing in their...

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  12. Hefce taken to task 2

    " Times Higher lowers journalism standards" - how would you feel about such a heading based on the unsubstantiated opinion of a few readers? I ask because I do not understand either how your headline...

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  13. Hefce taken to task 3

    On the one hand, the UK mathematics community falls short of reproducing itself. On the other, mathematicians have the highest earnings expectations of all graduates ("Home PhDs trumped by overseas...

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  14. Spending pledge

    You claim the Government is backtracking on its commitment to increase public spending on science ("Scientists fear broken pledge", June 24). There is no truth in this. The Government set out its...

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  15. Cut the complacency

    I was shocked by the article "Hefce plays down closures" (July 1) and, in particular, Sir Howard Newby's belief that there is no need for a "great moral panic". I'd like him to tell that to the...

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