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  1. Good news for journalism

    How disappointing to read Tim Luckhurst, the new director of the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent, suggesting that journalism studies offers practitioners only "meagre pickings" and...

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  2. Schwartz did not back SATs

    Your report on recent research into US-style SATs was wrong in stating that the Schwartz inquiry into fair admissions recommended the use of these tests ("The week in higher education", 18 September...

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  3. Full-cost fees are not fair 1

    George Psacharopoulos states that institutions should charge full-cost fees up to and beyond the £20,000-plus that the University of Oxford has been saying for some time it needs to cover its annual...

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  4. Full-cost fees are not fair 2

    The key flaw in George Psacharopoulos' argument for charging full-cost fees is that universities do not produce "average graduates". They produce some graduates who earn relatively little during...

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  5. A campus carry-on

    Thanks for reminding us all of that lost classic of saucy British cinema Carry on up the Quad ("Striptease results in official campus cover-up", 18 September), in which Mac Daly, cultural studies...

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  6. Lacking in evidence

    After a successful British Educational Research Association (Bera) conference, it was disappointing to read Dennis Hayes' denunciation of education research across the whole of UK academia ("Forget...

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  7. Plugging the policy gap

    In your rush to stoke a non-existent dispute about metrics ("Humanities overlooked by politicians", 18 September), you missed the point of the British Academy's recent report on the contribution that...

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  8. A stroke of luck

    "The big marking experiment" (18 September) raises the following questions. The reported span among grades may be encouragingly narrow, but those differences might matter all the more in a finely...

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  10. University of Essex - Energy boost at Colchester

    A new wind turbine has been installed at the University of Essex as part of its drive towards sustainability. The turbine has been placed next to the new School of Health and Human Sciences building...

  13. Anglia Ruskin University - Racial appeal thrown out

    A student nurse's allegation that Anglia Ruskin University helped the Royal College of Nursing to discriminate against her has been thrown out by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The nurse, Mrs...

  14. University of Nottingham - Power centre opens in China

    A Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies has been opened by the University of Nottingham at its campus in Ningbo, China. The project, a collaboration between the UK and China, focuses on new and...