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  2. First Impressions

    This week's competition, to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work about a theory that changed physics: "In your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with...

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  3. Red card for awards criticism 1

    Your editorial "University own goals" (September 24) was poorly informed. The University of East Anglia has given honorary degrees to a number of organisations that meet the criteria we set for such...

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  4. Red card for awards criticism 4

    Your leader referred to "high-profile but inappropriate individuals" being given honorary degrees, citing Hull University's award to football referee Pierluigi Collina. You omitted to relate the...

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  5. Red card for awards criticism 2

    Hull University has a thriving sports science programme and local Football Association referee courses are run on its premises; this is the connection with Pierluigi Collina. Far from scoring an own...

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  6. Red card for awards criticism 3

    It may be that the decision to reward an individual with an honorary degree is "uncontroversial" but thetype of degree that is awarded is. While I was teaching in the School of Education at Sussex...

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  7. A local difficulty 1

    Public debates on internal issues are almost always counterproductive. My distinguished colleague Peter Coles manifestly thinks otherwise (Letters, September 24). The problems regarding pay and...

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  8. A local difficulty 2

    Which planet is Peter Coles, Nottingham University's professor of astrophysics, living on? He claims that the Association of University Teachers' greylisting of his institution is a deliberate...

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  9. Novel nonsense

    So, "Dull Birmingham pays £100,000 to make itself more interesting" (September 17) to the same consultants who market the low-grade TV channel Five? This is another case of overpaid administrators...

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  10. Vital vivisection

    Kathy Archibald and Gillian Russell (Letters, September 17 and 24) show gritty determination not to allow overwhelming scientific evidence, public opinion and the findings of the House of Lords'...

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  11. Out of the inner circle

    Chris Singleton's response to my article is extraordinary (Letters, September 24). He reduces my legitimate concern about the misuse of psychometric assessments to a personal pathological problem...

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  12. We're not revolting

    You correctly quoted me as saying that the 1994 Group favoured the dual-support system of research funding but was willing to look at alternatives to the research assessment exercise ("'Duped' v-cs...

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  13. Doctoral drive

    You rightly refer to the growing attention being paid to doctoral training at European level "Europe to streamline doctorate courses" (September 3). You did not, however, mention that much of the...

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  14. More kudos from Code

    Theology and cryptography are not the only potential beneficiaries of The Da Vinci Code 's popularity ("Code sets Holloway on Hollywood path", September 17). King's College London may not yet house...

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  15. Need the knowledge?

    Please move your "Working Knowledge" section (last week it appeared after the job advertisements) otherwise the 5 per cent of academics aged 35-40 who "don't know" whether they are actively seeking a...

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