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  1. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a discourse by a republican: "Although owing to the envy inherent in man's nature it has always been...

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  5. TQA just wasn't worth the pain 1

    Peter Williams (Soapbox, February 20) argues that, despite diminishing returns, great expense and highly effective institutional game-playing, the teaching quality assurance system has "helped to...

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  6. TQA just wasn't worth the pain 2

    Where was the self-criticism in the Quality Assurance Agency's valedictory report? I was an assessor. I was myself assessed. At Middlesex University, I was in charge of the preparations for...

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  7. TQA just wasn't worth the pain 3

    Teaching Quality Assurance assessors found exam questions "insufficiently challenging" and said the same questions were repeated year on year ("Flaws in marking revealed by QAA", February 20). Could...

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  8. Life's a lottery 1

    Alan Ryan's ideas for reorganising universities (Columnist, February 20), though sound, omit the individual academic for whom the labour market is a lottery. What job you get depends on timing,...

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  9. Life's a lottery 2

    Alan Ryan's reminder that free higher education went with income-tax rates of 33 per cent or more unwittingly gave us plan C: reduce the standard rates to 20 per cent; raise the higher rates...

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  10. Life's a lottery 3

    Mark Baimbridge's arithmetic (Letters, February 20) cannot be faulted, but what a pity he endorses disingenuous political claims that top-up fees are the only source of additional funding for higher...

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  11. Not so gr8 Britain

    As a former academic who has recently qualified as a secondary school teacher and examiner, it is dispiriting to mark GCSE and A-level scripts considered "top grade" by exam boards' criteria (Letters...

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  12. What's the score?

    The Royal Musical Association's position on copyright and permissions ("Call to fine-tune copyright", February 13) affects scholarship in other disciplines besides music. The problem for scholars...

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  13. V-c pay: the verdict 1

    Your annual survey of vice-chancellors' salaries ("Unions cry foul over hike in v-cs' pay", February 20) repeats criticism that their 6 per cent average increase is nearly twice the 3.44 per cent...

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  14. V-c pay: the verdict 2

    Older academics can recall a time when the salary of a vice-chancellor was only 30 per cent higher than that of a professor heading a teaching department and many v-cs were distinguished scholars....

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  15. V-c pay: the verdict 3

    It would be interesting to know why some v-cs accepted a pay rise in line with the percentage award to their staff. Was this on economic grounds or are there still a few v-cs for whom the expression...

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