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  6. Own goal in grading of degrees 1

    The reform of the system for awarding university degrees in the UK will be meaningful only if it includes a serious look at the issue of bare-minimum requirements ("Degree grades 'are too crude'",...

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  7. Own goal in grading of degrees 2

    Given the love many academics have for football these days, surely it is time to reclassify degree gradings in line with the Football League. A first could be Premiership, a 2:1 could be a first...

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  8. Lose sense of science

    One grows weary of reading that Baroness Greenfield's failure to be shortlisted for Royal Society fellowship represents prejudice, or "club culture", as Geoffrey Alderman alleges, (Soapbox, May 7)....

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  9. What's your carrot?

    I was interested in the implication that concern over attendance is increasing. ("Make your presence felt, stick in that dibber", April 30). I would like to know what other institutions do to...

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  10. Convoy on right tack

    I hope you will forgive a college principal and a former senior tutor if we mark your essay "Oxford's future vision could upset colleges" (May 7), in which you make a number of factual errors. When...

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  11. No student of mine

    In his otherwise very fair review (April 30) of my debate with Gill Langley on animal experimentation, Steve Farrar repeats the myth that Langley was a student of mine at Cambridge University, "who...

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  12. Unclassy system 1

    As a sociologist specialising in educational policy studies, I found your report on students from the middle classes dominating higher education bewildering ("Trainee medics are top of 'posh' league...

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  13. Unclassy system 2

    You report that "students from rich backgrounds" are more likely than poor ones to gain entry to medicine and other subjects allied to medicine, which includes nursing. But nursing itself covers a...

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  14. Biting back

    Although peer review has good points, a disadvantage is that it can descend into backbiting about perceived status. In Britain, snobbery is most pronounced between subtle gradations of class rather...

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  15. Make citations count

    Nancy Rothwell (Opinion, April 30) suggests that the time is ripe to compare various metrics, such as citation counts, with research assessment exercise results. In fact, studies have already been...

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