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  5. Rankings rankle 1

    The exclusion from last week's league tables of the oldest teaching quality assessment scores highlights a major issue for table compilers and consumers: when do data lose their currency and...

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  6. Rankings rankle 2

    Your article "Hardbacks and hard drives win some hard cash" (May 21) ignores one of your tables in which Cambridge University and most other Russell Group institutions are consistently bottom - the...

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  7. Rankings rankle 3

    Judging an institution or subject by the A-level grades required of entrants hampers attempts to widen participation and attract non-traditional entrants, as well as disadvantaging universities that...

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  8. Rankings rankle 4

    I have to confess that I like league tables. I also have an intense dislike for information that is misleading - and your tables are about as misleading as they can be. Some of the data are missing....

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  9. Open-access benefits 1

    It is difficult to see why Robert Campbell of Blackwells believes that open access, supported by article charges paid out of research grants, may cost more per article than the subscription system (...

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  10. Open-access benefits 2

    Even if Robert Campbell were proved right that open-access publication costs could end up as high as subscription costs, the increased benefits from open access to everybody - including publishers...

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  11. QAA confidence

    Your article on the Quality Assurance Agency's report on Sheffield University was misleading and its sensationalist headline totally unwarranted ("Sheffield degree criteria slated", May 14). Contrary...

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  12. Israeli actions 1

    We at Brighton, Sussex and other universities feel we cannot remain silent about the Israeli aggression against Rafah in the Gaza Strip. This has continued unabated for three and a half years and...

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  13. Israeli actions 2

    In his article "Why I ... urge academics to support Israeli academics' right to free expression" (April 30), David Newman writes: "Academics have been accused of being anti-Israeli...". Accused? One...

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  14. Bloated York

    Are universities really about job creation? ("York's plan to expand will create 2,000 jobs", May 21). Your paper clearly received a copy of the press release aimed at our city councillors who needed...

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  15. Marked difficulty

    Lin Norton (Letters, May 21) exhorts us to be more professional in our marking. I would be pleased to be so, but one problem is that the marking scale used in most universities is absurdly non-linear...

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