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  1. Leader: Make or break reform

    Academics in other institutions may regard next week's vote on governance reforms at Oxford University as an irrelevance, but the outcome will have significance beyond the dreaming spires. A...

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  2. From poor pay to flexible fees 1

    Your article "Top-ups may fund pay rises" (May 6) implies that students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be getting a raw deal if the extra cash is largely used to attract and keep tip-top...

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  3. From poor pay to flexible fees 2

    The temptation to produce league tables is irresistible, however misleading they might be. Your table purporting to show what percentage of fee income higher education institutions would spend on...

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  4. A little less Frank 1

    It is time that the ill-informed and emotional outbursts by Frank Furedi and others criticising programmes to develop the teaching of new lecturers were confronted with some published evidence (...

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  5. A little less Frank 2

    Frank Furedi manages the difficult task of being even more insubstantial and baseless than your original report on Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education programmes ("Lecturers bored by lessons...

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  6. A little less Frank 3

    Recent letters on the "ineffectiveness" of teaching courses for new staff and the constant drone of Frank Furedi make me question the effectiveness of some UK academics as researchers. Selective...

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  7. Implausible reasoning

    To defend the concept of plausible reasoning as involving "thinking that is analogical and associative rather than logico-deductive" (Letters, May 6) is simply not good enough in the context of...

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  8. 'Zero' incentives

    Deciding how many staff to submit to the research assessment exercise has always been difficult. Until now, the cliff edges in the funding formula, and league tables that ignored non-submitted staff...

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  9. Political review

    David Cesarani misattributes to me several positions in his review of my The Question of Zion (Books, April 29). He suggests that I ignore early pogroms, citing my phrase "atrocity (in the 1890s and...

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  10. Take race seriously

    Joyce Hill's summary of the importance of race impact assessments (Opinion, May 6) is timely. While some institutions strive to embed equality throughout the organisation, there are still too many...

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  11. Define 'voluntary'

    I am on the hit list for redundancy at Brunel University, in common with the other co-president of the Association of University Teachers, the vice-president and a member of the local committee. It...

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  12. Trust me, this is the last word. No, this is

    Is Wikipedia an open online forum that leads to accuracy or an anti-elitist free-for-all in which people 'vote for the truth'? Chris Bunting investigates In the four years since it was set up, the...

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  13. Campus curiosities. 04 Kapitza's crocodile, cambridge

    Leaping up the brickwork of a cylindrical tower hidden in the middle of Cambridge University's New Museums Site is a great carved crocodile, eyes a-goggle and teeth bared. But the rampant reptile is...

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  14. Hardwired to kill

    Natural selection has imprinted the capacity to commit murder on the human psyche according to a controversial new theory, Stephen Phillips writes They appeared to be the model couple, yet by the end...

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  15. Slaughter that cast a shadow over the groves of academe

    Campuses are generally safe places but, as Steve Farrar reports, they've had their share of gruesome killings As Sir William Curzon strode into the foyer of London's Imperial Institute one summer...

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