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  1. News in brief - 18 April 2013

    New ZealandVictory for VictoriaVictoria University of Wellington has claimed the top spot among New Zealand’s institutions in the research rankings released by the country’s Tertiary Education...

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  2. Gelmini law's an ass: EU, please use bridle

    Thank you for shedding much-needed light on the situation of the lettori (“‘Race law’ cited while pay for lettori is cut in half”, News, 11 April). I am one of the teachers just hit by the 50 per...

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  3. Iron emancipator

    Sir Peter Scott’s and John Akker’s wholly dismal view of Margaret Thatcher’s impact on the sector (“Split persists on Thatcher legacy”, 11 April) may not be shared by all those who were working in UK...

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  4. Charter flight to equality

    Despite the diligent work of many higher education institutions and sector organisations, including the Equality Challenge Unit, systemic discrimination on the grounds of race persists in the academy...

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  5. State-sanctioned inequality

    Your comprehensive coverage of the “wealth check” of UK higher education institutions highlights the blindingly obvious: namely, that there is increasing institutional inequality across the system (“...

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  6. Simple plan far too simple

    I was not at the conference at which “expert” Tom Green made his remarks about university marketing, so perhaps I missed the insights from which his recommendations were derived (“Message received:...

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  7. Right-sided spooks

    I thank Matthew Feldman for his generally positive review of my book British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960 (Books, 4 April), but certain areas require correction. For one, he is inaccurate...

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  8. Correlation limitations

    The fact that at the institutional level, total quality-related (QR) cash from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and total research council funding are highly correlated is neither new...

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  9. Peer performance

    Further to the article by Alan Ryan (“The best of the lot”, Opinion, 28 March): isn’t he describing the House of Lords as was? A random selection of the good, the bad and the indifferent - with peers...

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  10. Middle class? Moi?

    Source: AlamyClass acts: a little taste of the finer thingsNew research findings from Dr Nicola Ingram of the University of Bath show that some middle-class students at the post-1992 University of...

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  11. Campus round-up - 18 April 2013

    Source: ReutersPeak performance in aid of breath of lifeScientists at a UK university are working in one of the harshest environments on Earth to further vital research into the effects of low oxygen...

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  13. Odds and quads - 18 April 2013

    These items come from the archive of the Nobel prizewinning novelist J. M. Coetzee, which was acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at the University of...

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