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  1. Focus on real threat

    Preparations for war against Iraq are illegal and are diverting attention from the war against terrorism ("What lurks in the shadows", THES , October 18). Britain's attorney-general has ruled that...

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  2. Merge quietly

    Your leader on the Imperial/University College London merger ("Ministers could find full cost fees too hot to handle", THES , October 18) makes much of the challenge to Oxbridge. This may be a...

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  3. Pretty impartial

    Stephen Gundle (Letters, THES , October 18) perversely misreads my review of Paul Ginsborg's Italy and its Discontents (Books, THES , September ) as a personal attack on Ginsborg. He fails to...

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  4. Quality request

    I am writing an account of the development of quality assurance in UK higher education between 1992 and 2002. I am interested in any work on the impact of quality assurance regimes, particularly...

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  5. Be clear on 'Irish' collaboration

    The future of cross-border collaboration in higher education in Ireland is up in the air following the suspension of the devolved institutions created by the Belfast Agreement ("Labour MP takes over...

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  6. UK industry a turn-off

    The reason why so few graduates in computer science and women graduates in science, engineering and technology work in their field of study may be neither poor tuition nor sexism but simply that they...

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  7. Pupils deserve better

    The article "Stakes rise in battle for places" ( THES , October 11) highlighted the fears of many students, parents and staff about the likely scenario for those applying through the Universities...

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  8. Do the decent thing

    Richard Barker cites two reasons why he should be allowed to carry on in his post as professor of social work at Northumbria University: that he is a successful academic and has colleagues' support...

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  9. Redundant committee

    The article "Brum v-c defends plan to cut up to 200 jobs" ( THES , October 11) fails to mention a success for academics and Birmingham Association of University Teachers. The pro chancellor, Lord...

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  10. No paradigm shift

    Stephen Wolfram has made a tactical blunder in hitching his revolutionary wagon to Thomas Kuhn's star ("New kind of science, old kind of sceptics?" THES , October 18). Kuhn claims scientific...

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  11. Laurie Taylor Column

    I see that Imperial College is going to charge top-up fees. Yes, I think I saw a headline about that over the weekend. They are going to charge up to £15,000 a year. Do you think the government will...

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  12. Leader: Academe has much to gain from table talk

    People working in higher education will never like league tables. Nor will teachers, policemen or doctors. Any broad-brush rankings contain sufficient anomalies for professionals to argue that fair...

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  13. Leader: We see your problems, but no quick solutions

    The Treasury's decision to publish the cross-cutting review of science and research this week - it was completed in March - fuels speculation that its recommendations will find their way into next...

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  14. Who'd make a monkey out of 'first man'?

    Is the 7-million-year-old Toumai skull the earliest example of mankind? Palaeontologist Michel Brunet made headlines when he said it was - but not all his colleagues agree. Jane Marshall reports...

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