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  1. Examining the examiners

    Geoffrey Alderman's wishes in respect of the external examiner system are not entirely clear. He wants "a complete overhaul", but he also wants its abolition ("External examiners under pressure to...

    #Letters

  2. Alternative view 1

    Robert Verkerk, chief executive of the Alliance of Natural Health, said: "You can't apply (to homoeopathy) the existing interpretation of evidence-based medicine, which says RCTs (randomised...

    #Letters

  3. Alternative view 2

    The criteria for the Laing chair in complementary medicine at the University of Exeter currently held by Edzard Ernst include the following:"to provide leadership within the national scene in the...

    #Letters

  4. Taking up poll position 1

    The article "Where has all the passion gone?" (26 June) is interesting but the Opinionpanel poll is certainly not "the first poll of UK university students' political affiliations", even though its...

    #Letters

  5. Taking up poll position

    Reading the article on the alleged decline in student radicalism and Paul Whiteley's views on the lack of Marxists in his classes these days, I am tempted to suggest that your reporter should get out...

    #Letters

  6. Raising the alarm

    Sir Colin Campbell's claim that the arrests of the "Nottingham Two" is not a matter of academic freedom (Letters, 19 June) is not acceptable. He essentially admits the charges laid at his door by...

    #Letters

  7. Looking on the bright side

    I'd like to set a few matters straight in response to Duncan Wu's rather dismissive review of my book Sunshine (19 June). I could live with the jibes about the use of the first person and the "...

    #Letters

  8. Knowledge is power

    The Confederation of British Industry press release embargoed until 23 June ("The week in higher education", 26 June) came as a surprise to many of us since director-general Richard Lambert was...

    #Letters

  9. No NSS flag-waving here

    National Union of Students president Wes Streeting (Letters, 26 June) fails to engage with Lee Harvey's criticisms of the National Student Survey ("Jumping through hoops on a white elephant", 12 June...

    #Letters

  10. Green shoots

    Galvanised by last year's inaugural league table, universities across the UK have been busily redrafting environment policies and cutting energy consumption - but there's still a long way to go....

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  11. The state of the union

    The shrinking pool of potential students is putting new pressures on US universities. But if some are learning to adapt, others seem to have a 'nascent death wish'. Jon Marcus reports

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  12. 3 July 2008

    Going green - How eco-friendly is your university?

  13. To boldly go… in well-trodden footsteps

    Yet another meeting, yet another report that fails to break new ground. Gloria Monday fights boredom by totting up the number of legs in the room

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    #Opinion

  14. Home and far away

    Tara Brabazon on the soundtrack to life on a continent’s edge

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