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  1. Leader: Class size does matter

    There is no immutable law that teaching groups must be smaller in higher education than they are in schools. Sir Christopher Ball, a former warden of Keble College, Oxford, argued long ago that...

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  2. Fees, debt and uncertain values 1

    I am still puzzled as to why the introduction of top-up fees should make so much difference to our culture (Features, September 29). Universities have always received fees for students, but hitherto...

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  3. Fees, debt and uncertain values 2

    When Baroness Blackstone, as Higher Education Minister, introduced tuition fees in 1998, she told demonstrating students that it was a socialist measure. Now, wearing a different hat as vice-...

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  4. Fees, debt and uncertain values 3

    I fear that your correspondent, writing about the European Union free-for-all in relation to fees (Letters, September 15), has ignored (as do most decisionmakers) the fact that it is only full-time...

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  5. Fees, debt and uncertain values 4

    I note with interest your survey of the thoughts of academics on students as customers. Surely students are protesters, agitators and rebels - three activities that these days I suppose could label...

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  6. Fair assessment? 1

    Why are universities running scared from metrics-based research assessment? Some 80 to 85 per cent of most science, technology, maths and engineering subjects are being assessed in the research...

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  7. Fair assessment? 2

    The letters on "game-playing" for this research assessment exercise and the financial consequences of the result (September 29) have not separated two important issues: how to rank the outcomes given...

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  8. Power point

    In her discussion of what Mary Beard calls the "erotic charge" that sometimes occurred between students and their tutors in the 1960s and 1970s ("Scholar fires sex harassment row", August 18), Susan...

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  9. Same old ignorance

    Your news item on the university employee sacked for e-mailing "the Illegal Immigrants Poem" to colleagues ("Poet is fired over 'offensive' racist rhyme", September 29) made gloomy reading. The...

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  10. Legitimacy issue

    David Runciman argues that low electoral turnout creates a legitimacy problem (Opinion, September 29). But does it? Democratic legitimacy derives from franchise, not turnout. There are many reasons...

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  11. Cat-like compassion

    The biomedical researcher missed the point entirely in his ill-informed opinion piece (September 22). Home Office licences do not apply to the humane killing of mice. Any wild or laboratory rodent...

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  12. Titanic concerns

    It is an amusing coincidence that the articles by Bill Durodie and Jonathan Rutherford should be printed back to back (Features, September 22). Durodié speaks of nihilism and self-loathing, but the...

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  13. Day's new dawn

    My thanks once again to Gary Day for his insightful, disarming piece (Columnist, September 29) surely spelling the dawn of a new era. It is so heartening to know that in future we may not have to...

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  14. SOS: giant parasol needed

    From mirrors1,000km across to supersize kitchen utensils that fling salt spray into the air, Fred Pearce provides an overview of engineering solutions to cooling off the planet as global warming...

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  15. The thought police are among us 1

    Does academic freedom include the right to offend? Stephen Balch argues that liberalism blocks free expression on campus, while Frank Furedi insists that if we don't challenge ideas that offend us,...

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