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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    Vice-chancellor, are you free to take a call from Professor Jenks? Jenks, Mrs Dilworth? Since when did we have a professor called Jenks? Since last Thursday. He was one of the successful external...

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  2. Leader: Colleges need cash fillip

    Further and adult education are two parts of the public service that are used to playing second fiddle (or worse) when national budgets are set. But both are crucial to the economic and social health...

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  3. Leader: Better the RAE devil we know?

    The research assessment exercise costs the higher education system millions of pounds and untold hours of effort, as well as causing unnecessary upheaval. Preparations for 2008 may be too far...

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  4. Why authors won't be Wellcome

    Publishers' scepticism about the claims of the open-access campaigners ("Everyone's a winner", May 7) is easily caricatured as self-interest. But it goes deeper. The Wellcome Trust's estimate of...

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  5. Class equality

    As the principal author of the new government social class schema, I take exception to the cavalier criticisms of it by Richard Austen-Baker and Christopher Knight (Letters, May 7 and May 14). The...

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  6. Past impressions

    I was surprised to read Lord Triesman's claim that his main aim as a student activist in 1968 was to get Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, elected president of the National Union of Students ("My...

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  7. Marked disparities

    Your article about the university marking scheme ("Structure is archaic, confused. See me!!", May 14) is symptomatic of a more serious problem - the unprofessional approach that characterises our...

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  8. Fellow non-traveller

    I would like to correct an error in last week's Times Higher front-page article ("Dollars lure scientists Down Under", May 14), which is causing me some inconvenience - and not just because of the...

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  9. Let's be rational

    Your article (May 14 ) stated that I "misleadingly" claimed to be a student of Colin Blakemore's. He additionally accuses me of having "fuelled the campaign" against him and, in his letter (May 14),...

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  10. Sensible failures

    G. H. Hardy once remarked that the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan "had indeed but the vaguest idea of what a function of a complex variable is". No doubt Ramanujan would have failed...

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  11. Fat chance

    My colleagues are right to say that the strategy Oxford University has sent round for consultation does not divide colleges and the university (Letters, May 14). But like the identical proposals for...

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  12. Supportive response

    It is distressing to read of the unsupportive responses received by academics after "physical attacks, stalking and heckling by students" ("Female staff face abuse", May 7). I am happy to report that...

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  13. US loves a home truths kinda guy

    British historian Niall Ferguson followed 'the money' to New York, and told the US where it has gone wrong. Walter Ellis spoke to him for our series of controversial academic opinions on America....

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  14. A few first principles for a booming third sector

    Social enterprise is all the rage in government circles - James Austin, one of its gurus, explains the vital role higher education has to play. Throughout the world, charitable enterprises are the...

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  15. Catching a whiff of days gone by

    Two performance artists set out to harness smell. Harriet Swain tracks down a very fragrant pair. A mysteriously exotic smell pervades the office occupied by Helen Paris, a performance art lecturer...

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