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  1. Paul Wheeler, 1966-2008

    Colleagues have paid tribute to an "amazing" academic found dead earlier this month.Paul Wheeler, a senior lecturer in learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, had recently been...

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  3. Burning questions for the RAE panels

    Your research assessment exercise report ("Panels ordered to shred all RAE records", 17 April) does not bring out the real problems sufficiently strongly. If notes must be destroyed after 20 days -...

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  4. Allow us to work past 65

    An open letter to Bill RammellAs academics, mostly in our sixties, we consider ourselves active in research, teaching and administration. We have made, and can continue to make, a contribution to the...

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  5. Diplomas are not a solution

    It was unlucky that Claudio Vignali's puff for diplomas ("I'm sold on diplomas", 17 April) was published the same day as leading examiners Edexcel's damning report on the new qualifications. As a...

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  6. Librarians wielding lasers

    Libraries are having a hard time in the copyright crossfire. First Erik Ringmar ("Liberate and disseminate", 10 April) invites everyone to scan the holdings of their university library and release...

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  7. Battling the rule of thumb 1

    I was pleased to read Frank Furedi's stand against texting ("It's a vxd question: why your lecture isn't as important as an SMS", 17 April) and saddened at stories of tutors choosing to ignore, or...

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  8. Battling the rule of thumb 2

    Sorry, Frank. Having watched an 18-year-old produce an A-standard philosophy essay while wearing iPod earphones, watching The Simpsons and texting a friend, I recommend you not to worry that a little...

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  9. Kat measures the cream

    Another week, another bunch of scientists strutting their stuff across your bibliometrics column ("Top 20 countries in clinical medicine based on citations per paper", 17 April). Complex beast, yes,...

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  10. Chemistry alive and well

    In the article "Fashion victims" (17 April), you state "the slump (in the numbers studying chemistry) had already caused departments in some institutions - Queen Mary, University of London, and the...

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  11. HEA suspension shameful 1

    What baleful news that the guardians of the research assessment exercise are being led to do a "Nixon" with the shredder ("Panels ordered to shred all RAE records", 17 April) and that a leading...

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  12. HEA suspension shameful 2

    As Lee Harvey's former research colleagues, we are shocked to hear that he has been suspended from the Higher Education Academy for sending a personal letter to Times Higher Education (Letters, 6...

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  13. Publish and be ignored

    Lack of support, poor editing, negligible marketing: the alleged shortcomings of British academic publishing are increasingly leading authors to sign up with US and mainstream imprints. Matthew Reisz...

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  14. Doing the right thing

    Short ethics courses for members of medical and research committees are proliferating. But do they equip people with the tools needed to make what could be life-and-death decisions? Esther Oxford...

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