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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    What Are You Reading on Holiday? We continue our investigation into academic holiday reading by making another surprise call to a leading university figure. This week : Jamie Targett, Head of...

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  2. Leader: Survey needs the absentees

    The results of the second National Student Satisfaction Survey will come as a relief to ministers and the survey's organisers. Students are still overwhelmingly satisfied with their courses, and...

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  3. Leader: Think again on A level

    Now that the dust has settled on this summer's A-level results it becomes even more obvious that the whole system is in need of reform. The beginning of a flight to the International Baccalaureate (...

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  4. Wrongs of red-circling 2

    "Somewhat demoralised". The raw words I used in the feature cannot reflect my tone of voice and my feelings about being red-circled. In reality I am a great deal more than just somewhat demoralised....

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  5. Revolutionary affairs

    Obviously Hizb ut-Tahrir will aim to recruit at freshers' fairs ("Extremist groups set to recruit freshers" August 18): that's what these events are for. Like hundreds of other eager first-years at...

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  6. How to boost numbers 1

    Your editorial (August 18) has things upside-down when it blames the declining proportion of people entering higher education on the Government's failure to address educational inequalities. UK...

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  7. How to boost numbers 2

    Your report on the lack of success in boosting university student numbers ("Labour's student ambitions falter", August 18) is not helped by the fact that constant references are made to progression...

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  8. Contractual errors 1

    Elizabeth Barlow is indeed one of the lucky ones ("Life for PhD students is on the up", August 11). The Roberts review may have benefited researchers in the sciences and engineering and social...

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  9. Contractual errors 2

    With regard to Edinburgh University moving fixed-term contract (FTC) researchers to permanent contracts ("Edinburgh management and union forge permanent alliance", August 4, and Letters, August 18),...

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  10. A lesson in what the LSE teaches 1

    Everybody at the London School of Economics accepts that there is a right to free speech and free expression. But an academic who publicly accuses his colleagues of, among other things, giving "...

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  11. A lesson in what the LSE teaches 2

    Erik Ringmar may be hitting some targets square on the bull's-eye with his comments on the function of universities for employers. He claims that by picking students from the best universities,...

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  12. A lesson in what the LSE teaches 3

    I agree with Erik Ringmar that employers want only compliant workers and would add that universities are only too willing to swallow the ideology of "employability". But I am having trouble getting...

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  13. What's the cash for?

    Max Travers is right that discussing the merits of the research assessment exercise and the proposed metrics system will not solve the problems of research (Letters, August 18). The debate about what...

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  14. Sandy sartorial tips

    On reading the article "Summer time and the living is easy..." (August 18), I was disconcerted by the revelation that James Tooley, professor of education at Newcastle University, sits on a beach in...

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  15. Wrongs of red-circling 1

    Leeds University has downgraded (red-circled) 90 academic-related posts (Features, August 18). Academic-related staff are team players, supporting learning, teaching and research in professional ways...

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