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  3. No real degree of happiness 1

    David Watson is as wrong as it is humanly possible to be ("Expansion first, quality later", April 2). He claims that "higher education participation at the levels now being achieved around the world...

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  4. No real degree of happiness 2

    Sir Howard Newby (News, April 2) does not see the contradiction between his vision of the civilising role of universities and the role of his funding council. The closure of civilising departments...

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  5. Astronomical effort 1

    The article on Stuart McLeay's work ("Next RAE may demote 5*s", April 2) computes grade-point average (GPA) scores for the next research assessment exercise. It argues that there will be few...

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  6. Astronomical effort 2

    "Industry winners losing out in the RAE" (April 2) highlights one of the key problems with university reform: the craze for measurement and accountability presumes comparability. The assumption that...

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  7. Dissent on descent

    Paul Gross ("Why I don't believe Zionism is racist", March 26) neatly evades one of the key issues in the "Zionism is racism" debate. This is not only, or even mainly, about occupation. Zionism's...

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  8. Proving popular

    The analysis of trends in UK student choice ("Students forsake post-92 sector", March 12), should have established that St Andrews University is clearly an admissions winner. Student numbers at St...

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  9. No-win competition 1

    This Thatcherite policy ("Ministers see off rebels in bill triumph", April 2) will mean that within a decade the British electorate will cease to see universities as a public good. Fees will shoot up...

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  10. No-win competition 2

    1. Gordon Brown: "Nothing will matter more than leadership if universities are to be global players" (News, March 26). As not all universities can be global players, this is clearly a call for...

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  11. Double your money

    "Vice-chancellors concerned about cuts to budget" (April 2) could be forgiven for not recognising that the recent Welsh grants settlement: (a) provides growth of 1.7 per cent in funded full-time...

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  12. Independent Imperial

    I was somewhat perplexed to see Mandy Telford's letter ("NUS still united", April 2) in which she boldly claimed that students voted to remain in the NUS "in every single student union referendum...

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  13. Identity in a spin

    In the photo accompanying the comparison of the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus and Alastair Campbell ("Spin? We've seen it all before", April 2) the man on the right is one (unrelated) Quintus...

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  14. Laurie Taylor column

    "Many university student complaint procedures may not conform to basic principles of natural justice" - The Times Higher, March 26. Next please. You must be Wayne Timmins. Is that right? Yes, sir....

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  15. Leader: Who is in charge of admissions?

    After all the hot air that has surrounded Steven Schwartz's review of higher education admissions, this week's report will leave many observers asking what the fuss was about. The five principles of...

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