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  1. Crying Woolf

    "I've never heard of vacillating sexual identity. I was simply following orders."That was how our Head of Campus Security, Brigadier T.W. Trouncing, responded to critics of his decision to interrupt...

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  2. State actor still best for accountability role (1 of 2)

    Geoffrey Alderman appears to argue that the state has no right to seek to regulate in any way universities that receive public funding for student education or research (Letters, 25 October).I agree...

    #Letters

  3. State actor still best for accountability role (2 of 2)

    In its recently published response to its consultation on a risk-based approach to quality assurance, the Higher Education Funding Council for England alleges in paragraph 7 that it has a statutory...

    #Letters

  4. Expert trumpet-blowing

    Every successful operation needs teamwork. Before surgeons operate, anaesthetists attend to the patients. Chefs cook the food and waiting staff deliver it to the tables. So why should academics write...

    #Letters

  5. Spare the special pleading

    It is perhaps unsurprising that Vikesh Kakad, president of the British Pharmaceutical Students' Association, and John Smart, chairman of the Pharmacy Schools Council, fear the spectre of an increase...

    #Letters

  6. Tourist turn-offs

    The government's refusal to budge on the issue of excluding university-sponsored students from its net migration figures, despite compelling economic and academic arguments for doing so, is beginning...

    #Letters

  7. More farce than threat

    Richard J. Evans' account of student protests during the Queen's visit to the University of Stirling in 1972 brought back fond memories - I was a member of the students' union council that was...

    #Letters

  8. Believers in science

    In "Believing is not always seeing" (Books, 25 October), Steve Fuller writes: "Religious believers know how the secular world works, yet they openly reject its principles without compromising their...

    #Letters

  9. Invitation to spend

    This is a warning about a change of language, especially for professors emeriti.I received a letter requesting that I give an invited lecture at a certain conference in another country and I agreed....

    #Letters

  14. Open to question

    OERs are touted as the answer to all manner of global ills, but much work is needed before they fulfil the promise, writes Jeremy Knox

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  15. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

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