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  1. A bit of literal thinking

    What a stroke of genius on the part of your correspondents Quentin Deakin, Richard Mullender (Letters, October 15), as well as Claire Sambrook, writing in The Guardian (October 23) to play along with...

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  2. Marketing is a poor game plan 1

    Steven Schwartz's article on university marketing is a much overdue critique of approaches to "getting bums on seats" (Soapbox, October 22). However, we should not look solely at the marketing arm,...

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  3. Marketing is a poor game plan 2

    Lee Harvey (Letters, October 15) accepts Bob Brecher's apparently appealingly simple solution of random admissions to undergraduate courses far too readily. His claim that Brecher "demolished" the...

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  4. No points for quality 1

    The employment of headhunting firms to recruit deans and research professors ("RAE triggers headhunt race", October 22) has nothing to do with the 2008 research assessment exercise. But it does have...

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  5. No points for quality 2

    Was it just me or did the agency names in articles last week raise a smile on the lips of others? Heidrick and Struggles - a recruitment agency for deans, not to mention Standard and Poor's - a...

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  6. NHS is not immune 1

    Cecile Wright is correct in pointing to the impact of structural racism in higher education (Features, October 22). But she is way off target in suggesting that "in the health service or in schools,...

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  7. NHS is not immune 2

    Chris Bunting states that "in the humanities and social sciences, ...[Cecile] Wright appears to stand alone as the only black female professor". What about Ann Phoenix, professor of social and...

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  8. Excellence is the key

    Readers of The Times Higher would be misguided if they concluded from your report ("Rivals vie for new MRC site", October 22) on the relocation of the National Institute for Medical Research that the...

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  9. Don't take it as red

    Further to Sue Powell's letter on Captain Grose (October 22), referring to my review of Blooming English (October 8). I did, of course, refer to the venerable captain, given the irony of his name in...

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  10. Life in a parallel world

    If Declan Leyden of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association (Letters, October 22) thinks many institutions are planning for a "dramatic reduction" in the number of fixed-term academic...

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  11. An apt appellation?

    My suggestion for the name of the merged Association of University Teachers and Natfhe would be the Amalgamated Academical Association, to be known as AAA or 3A. That AAA might also stand for "...

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  12. TV is no panacea

    Does Maria Misra assume that the only need a post-Bharatiya Janata Party Government in India has is for a TV historian who "commands the fees of a David Starkey" (Working Knowledge, October 22)? In...

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  13. Laurie Taylor Column

    University of Poppleton staff news Research assessment exercise The next research assessment exercise will cover the period to July 21 2007. Although a sizeable number of you will not be with us by...

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  14. Alan Ryan

    Class warfare starts in the womb and newly dreamt-up admissions tariffs are a blunt instrument with which to fight it Funny things, numbers. There we are with the Department for Education and Skills...

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  15. Leader: Professor: more than just a title

    What's in a name? Quite a lot in higher education, as regular spats over university titles have demonstrated down the years. And in a walk of life where prestige often has to compensate for better...

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