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  1. Research remains in our remit

    How could your leader of April have got it so wrong? It stated that Bournemouth University was "positioning itself as a teaching-only institution where scholarship and research take a distant second...

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  2. Respect admin staff 1

    I feel sorry for the reader who wrote in response to the report "staff 'swotted' by managers" and Frank Furedi's column (Letters, April 20). He must have been very unlucky in his experience of...

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  3. Respect admin staff 2

    Your unnamed contributor's assertion that "even the best university administrators are at best only fourth-raters" raised eyebrows here at the Association of University Administrators and kick-...

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  4. Respect admin staff 3

    I was staggered by your anonymous letter-writer's insensitive and inaccurate depiction of university administrative staff as "fourth-raters" to whom we ought to "stop being deferential". Without...

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  5. Old lows, new highs

    The article "Competition swells ranks of professors" (April ) asserts that there is "a danger of 'grade inflation' taking place so that the title could begin to lose its value as a mark of academic...

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  6. Time to say 'sorry'

    The letter from David Booth (April ) regarding job titles made me chuckle, having once been a fuel-injection engineer (aka petrol-pump attendant). Does he not realise that research administrators are...

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  7. Misinformed dangers

    In his article "Blind faith" (Features, April ), Anthony Glees berates my discipline for turning down "a government offer of £1.3 million to study how to combat terrorism by countering radicalisation...

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  8. Bovine balderdash

    Being a vegetarian is about taking the (easy) ethical choice that you don't require animals to be killed just so that you can eat them. Nigel Hunt's appalling letter (April ) suggests that it is OK...

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  9. The personality touch

    I was extremely interested to read the article on the advent of psychometric testing in higher education ("New tests will probe employee suitability", April 20). But my interest in its use comes from...

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  10. Israel deserves better

    Tony Greenstein's letter is evidence of the way people adhere religiously to one narrative without doing further research (Letters, April ). In addition to reading work by Ilan Pappe, Greenstein...

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  11. ICT: The revolution starts here

    Podcasts, blogs and wikis are making inroads into education and work - and academics want to be in the vanguard. Matt Baker reports They're whispering about her in the corridors of Whitehall. Her...

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  12. ICT: Information without frontiers

    The European Union has ambitions to make the Continent into a single knowledge zone in which information and people can move as freely as goods. Information technology is a vital part of this vision...

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  13. ICT: Puzzled peers are teaching tools, too

    Vicarious learning, in which people learn from watching others learn, helps students improve their clinical reasoning, writes Richard Cox Vicarious learning is the idea that people can learn via...

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  14. Big government, enormous turnoff

    With party politics and voter turnouts waning but many citizens active on local and global issues, experts ponder what might stir a democratic revival Only local autonomy will restore people's belief...

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  15. Just hit the red button

    With party politics and voter turnouts waning but many citizens active on local and global issues, experts ponder what might stir a democratic revival Today's interactive media can help both people...

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