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  2. Sifting great students from the very good

    The fear that state-school students, or pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, will be overlooked by top universities is not a new concern brought about by the introduction of A* grades at A level.It...

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  3. Greens under the beds

    Martin Cohen seems determined to reveal some dark hidden truth about the potential for profit in climate change, but this is to miss the point ("Profits of doom", 29 July).Energy supply is a...

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  4. Hold on, we have a problem

    The report "University of Cambridge: 'Goldilocks' and the three bids" (Campus round-up, 29 July) is misleading. Cambridge has not "topped a shortlist". As the UK Space Agency's press release on the...

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  5. McCarthy? No, integrity

    It is important to point out that voicing support for a boycott of Israel and its academic institutions is perfectly legal and is part and parcel of freedom of expression in the country ("Is the...

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  6. Brevity not the soul of wit

    In the sincere hope that my children do not read your Letters pages, I must confess my bewilderment concerning your "Tweet of the week" feature. Not only do I not understand the concept or the...

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  7. Authors, you are not alone

    I was surprised by Katharine Reeve's assertion that academic authors are "left to their own devices" during the writing process, unlike their fiction-writing counterparts ("Bound for glory", 5 August...

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  8. Ceci n'est pas une chaise

    Once again, Times Higher Education refers to someone, in this case Thomas Bartlett of the University of Aberdeen, as being "... chair", when, to be more precise, he holds a chair (Author profile, 5...

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  9. Baloney detector

    The concerns of your anonymous "senior manager at a research-intensive university" are complete baloney ("Loss of ally adds to Welsh unrest", 5 August).There is no dearth of higher education...

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  10. It needed to be said

    In THE's Letters pages (29 July), James J. Browne and Stefan Decker of the National University of Ireland attack me for criticising the European Commission's research funding programme ("Brussels...

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  11. Collective insights

    "When I first wrote about the student experience of learning in the early 1990s," writes Paul Ramsden, "no one had heard of the idea" ("No thinkable alternative", 5 August).I'd like to gently remind...

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  12. Great escapes

    Breaking out of the academy may seem daunting, but scholars' skills transfer to many other jobs. Matthew Reisz talks to four who made it to the other side. But then there is the final move out of the...

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  13. Poetics of fact

    Literary journalism and the best book reviews both value the subjective but tie it to hard facts. Susan Greenberg describes how truth can be as creative as fiction, while Christopher Phelps offers 10...

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  14. So clichéd

    Mary Evans laments the growing use of 'university-speak' in the academy - otherwise known as a part of the 'knowledge economy'

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  15. 12 August 2010

    That Eighties feeling - Is higher education heading back into a darker age?