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  1. Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 3

    A representative of independent schools lecturing us on the "unfairness" of university admissions? Oh, the irony. Presumably an admissions policy based on parental wealth would be fine?Janet Hobbs,...

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  2. Immoral and unenforceable 1

    All (intellectual) property is thievable. The case Times Higher Education reported last week emphasises failure at a number of levels ("What's yours is ours ... but not all agree", 18 March). When...

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  3. Immoral and unenforceable 2

    I was surprised to see that "What's yours is ours ..." focused on the extent to which institutional regulations justified Remco Polman's actions, but ignored the issue of his professional...

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  4. Intimidatory tactics

    As members of academic staff at the University of Brighton, many of us with close links to the University of Sussex, we are writing to express our deep disappointment at Sussex management's response...

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  5. Every second mark counts

    As the challenge to tertiary education professionals continues to soar inexorably, and as the resources to meet this challenge are systematically strip-mined by the government at every turn, an...

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  6. Sample of one

    Because life exists on Earth, Ken Smith claims, it must exist elsewhere in the Universe (Letters, 18 March). "Probability theory", he says, makes it "not merely improbable, but ... impossible, that...

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  7. Sad legacy

    What a poignant commentary on the Labour administration, 1997-2010 ("Ready for the storm?", 18 March). It started with the mantra "education, education, education"; it ended by decimating the...

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  8. Missing time

    It is an occupational hazard of statisticians to check columns of numbers compulsively. Thus, I noted with amusement that in the report on the Sodexo-THE University Lifestyle Survey ("Hard work,...

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  9. Ends and means

    Your obituary of Sir Kenneth Dover (18 March) is brief, but still finds space to quote Mary Beard as saying that his book Greek Homosexuality (1978) got "to the bottom of things". Beard admits this...

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  10. Career strategies

    Many of the UK's 'accidental' administrators think that their work is not valued and that their US counterparts enjoy higher status. John Morgan considers what gives the professional edge

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  12. Heated discussions

    The email conversations at the heart of 'Climategate' suggest a campaign to nobble journals, marginalise climate-change sceptics and withhold data from other researchers, says Andrew Montford

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  13. 25 March 2010

    Don’t look now - Battle lines drawn over job security and pay