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  1. Brown brainchild blighted at birth

    The University for Industry was launched again this week. The first obvious thing about it is that it is no university. It is designed to trawl the highways and byways, using all modern means of...

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  2. Get the drugs debate rolling

    When Andrew Lockley wrote in The THES last week that he had been, in his own words, "an evil drug dealer", we did not identify the university he was attending though he decided to sign his article....

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  3. Senates face emasculation

    The intention of the Quality Assurance Agency "would have the effect of moving the higher education sector from a position in which academic standards are determined by each institution acting...

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  4. Knight in his armour

    In an era in which the commitment to academic freedom is too often seen as a hindrance to effective managerialism in our universities, it is refreshing to find a vice-chancellor - Peter Knight of the...

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  5. Knight in his armour

    I fully support Peter Knight's stirring critique of censorship. The choice of what we look at, read or listen to must reside with the individual in society and not be dictated by outmoded laws. While...

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  6. Marks sparks

    An invitation to pro-cannabis campaigner Howard Marks to address the National Union of Students conference this week allowed departing new Labour NUS president Douglas Trainer to utter words the...

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  7. Knight in his armour

    UNDER the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV and his successors, two systems of censorship operated. The repressive method (used retrospectively) involved the seizure of works after publication for such...

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  8. Mything, presumed lost

    Reading last week's letter (THES, March ) from the unknown market warrior who believed that his/her research assessment exercise rating warranted a pay promotion above less successful (and, by...

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  9. Mything, presumed lost

    I have been concerned to read recommendations re the RAE that credit for research should be attached to the institution in which the research was done, and particularly that these recommendations...

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  10. Disloyalty to Oxford

    The Master of Pembroke College, Oxford's remarks to the American Association of University Administrators meeting ("Oxford slips in world league for a fee", THES, March ) beggared belief. They were...

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  11. Rally for pay review

    Your anonymous correspondent (THES, March ) is correct to identify our outdated system of pay determination as a major cause of declining pay levels. National collective bargaining, operating as it...

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  12. A concerted offensive in quango land?

    Attacks on educational research by education officials and quangos such as Ofsted must stop, argues Peter Mortimore WHY is educational research being attacked? Is it significantly worse than research...

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  14. Target failure forces job cuts

    DOZENS of posts are to be axed, threatening course closures, at the University of East London as it struggles to balance its budget in the face of under-recruitment. Staff heard on Tuesday this week...

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