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  1. Proxy strengths may vary

    Phil Baty (World University Rankings column, 19 August) tells us that citations data are "widely accepted as a strong proxy for research quality" and they "will have a high weighting" in the Times...

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  2. Fair winds ahead

    The potential for up to 50,000 new jobs in the offshore wind energy sector is welcome news indeed, and it will of course require the necessary skills to fill this tremendous number of opportunities...

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  3. It's discrimination, full stop

    Does anyone else find the phrase "reverse discrimination" somewhat offensive and patronising ("A straight case of discrimination? Lawsuits come in all shades for US institutions", 26 August)?...

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  4. Science needs effective PR

    Zoë Corbyn's article "Trial by error" (26 August) depressingly restates the same sterile arguments made too many times in the past 30 years. Researcher versus media disagreements will continue until...

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  5. A few home truths

    I have been visiting professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, several times in the past few years and have taught in different universities in Europe and elsewhere. I simply do not...

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  6. One rule for all applicants

    The Sunday Times' claim, repeated in Times Higher Education, that "a reporter posing as a Russian applicant was told by universities including ... Leicester ... that she could get a place with A-...

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  7. Data, but no context

    Some 40 years after the publication of E.P. Thompson's book Warwick University Limited, you report on a new survey in which the majority of respondents at UK universities agreed fairly strongly or...

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  8. To every page, turn, turn, turn

    Dale Salwak laments the decline of deep reading under the baleful influence of the online age, and rallies to the defence of the love of learning, the sequestered nooks and the sweet serenity of books

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  9. Art on its own account

    John Haldane muses on artist David Tremlett's ability to take on a space and transform it into something living, in a compelling affirmation of the essential domesticity of the creative act

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  10. We can work it out

    As graduates struggle to find employment, universities are having to think more creatively about how to prepare them for the workplace, says Rebecca Attwood

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  11. 2 September 2010

    Graduate take-off - Are universities doing enough to make students employable?

  12. Overseas first for Imperial

    Imperial College London is to launch its first course overseas at a new medical school developed with a university in Singapore.The school, which is due to open in 2013, will award joint Imperial and...

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