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  1. Whiplashes on target in standards debate 1

    My "whiplashes" may indeed have been "badly aimed". But at least one of them seems to have found a target.That being the case, University College London provost Malcolm Grant would do well to...

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  2. Forecast was bright

    I feel that some further clarification is needed in response to Sally Hunt (Letters, 11 September). The sector did indeed spend an average of 58 per cent on staff costs in 2006-07, although this...

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  3. A date with trouble

    I doubt that Hannah Greig has dispelled the justifiable scepticism about academic collaboration with film producers and their studio masters ("Let's get our dates straight", 11 September).In the...

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  4. Find me a fundraiser

    The assertion that there are too many Americans in UK university development offices misses the point ("Americans are 'taking over'?", 11 September).Professionals from the other side of the Atlantic...

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  5. Hera helps to close pay gap

    Your account of the work to introduce equal pay missed an important point ("Pay still linked to length of service", 11 September).The Higher Education Role Analysis (Hera) process is a highly...

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  6. Campus community sell-out

    It is certainly true that all of us who work in universities need to address the issue of student expectations about higher education ("Living the dream", 11 September). I have just returned from the...

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  7. A dose of its own medicine

    The University of Central Lancashire suspends its first-year BSc course in homoeopathic medicine because it has not attracted sufficient student numbers ("Staff fears about 'quackery' lead to review...

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  8. Full stop on spelling debate

    While Ken Smith's suggestion that bad spelling should be accepted rather than corrected has provided a divertissement from the ennui of a long wet summer, I feel that it could be taken further ("Just...

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  9. Whiplashes on target in standards debate 3

    I could not disagree more with Malcolm Grant that we should stifle debate and pretend that all is well with the standards of British degrees ("The real sting of the QAA whip", 11 September).There are...

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  10. Whiplashes on target in standards debate 2

    Hasn't Malcolm Grant made two elementary mistakes? He has confused the suggestion of the Burgess group that degree classifications should be replaced by academic transcripts with the midsummer flurry...

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  12. Bournemouth University - Dismissal case to go to appeal

    An employment tribunal's decision that Bournemouth University unfairly dismissed a professor - who resigned in protest after managers overruled his decision to fail his students - will be subject to...

  14. University of Kent - An argument for public's sake

    Is God a delusion? Is lying always wrong or violence ever justifiable? Could you know if the universe had doubled in size overnight? And should arguments always be reasonable? These are just some of...

  15. Greenwich/Liverpool/Ulster - 9/11 deaths explored

    Some 7,000 more people would have died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks had the World Trade Center been fully occupied, a study has found. Academics at the universities of Greenwich,...