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  1. Act to fix black hole in national memory

    Helen Hockx-Yu, head of web archiving at the British Library, comments that it is "about time that the measures needed to implement rules for the legal deposit of web publications are put into place...

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  2. Simply lacking in expertise (1 of 2)

    What an extraordinarily unpleasant letter from David Marsland ("A conspiracy against academic freedom", 1 September).The main objection of the historians to which he refers to David Starkey's...

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  3. Simply lacking in expertise (2 of 2)

    The BBC should surely be praised rather than blamed for inviting David Starkey to appear on their shows. As well as being its token non-leftist, his credentials as a historian can hardly be doubted....

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  4. NSS fitness hardly a given

    If you were to believe some parts of the academy, you would think that the National Student Survey is widely viewed as a positive force, providing useful information to both prospective students and...

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  5. OIA remains the final refuge

    I write to dissociate the Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service in the strongest possible terms from any suggestion that we consider the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher...

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  6. Clip Swan's wings

    Upon opening last week's copy of Times Higher Education, I flicked to the Letters pages eager to read the undoubted responses to the plethora of articles on equality and diversity in the 25 August...

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  7. When the boasts come in

    Jeremy Black deplores the grandiose claims routinely made by academic book blurbs ("Greatest story ever told", 1 September), but this is just one instance of the boasting that now echoes through so...

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  8. Coming round again

    Michael Scott, vice-chancellor of Glyndwr University, claims his institution is being brave and bold in having a "lower-cost, highly vocational" university education that will be "open to all" ("'...

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  9. Action Nerd

    I don't think I would have gone into science had I not been influenced by gender programming via the many exciting ranges of scientist action figure toys ("Where is Physics Barbie?", 25 August).Ultra...

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  10. Totally bogus

    I was most amused to read David Willetts' comments that it should be possible for someone to "rent an office block and say you could study here for five key vocational qualifications" (The week in...

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  11. Something's lacking

    "Interviews with Indian villagers have cast doubt on whether wealth is the best measure of poverty" (Campus round-up, 1 September): I think the researchers actually found that lack of wealth was a...

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  12. Film review: Jane Eyre

    Despite reservations about yet another version of a classic story, Duncan Wu enjoys a faithful rendition

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    #Film

  13. TV review: Nature's Miracle Babies

    Gary Day sees parallels between the 19th-century novel and anthropomorphic tales of rare animals

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    #Television

  14. Paul Wilkinson, 1937-2011

    A leading international expert on terrorism, equally adept at offering his insights to academic audiences, policymakers or the public, has died.Paul Wilkinson was born in Harrow, Middlesex and...

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    #People

  15. THE Scholarly Web

    Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.

    #Opinion
    #THE Scholarly Web