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  1. Get more winners in grant lottery 3

    A simple analogy shows why the use of metrics is a madder idea than the philosophically and methodologically fraudulent research assessment exercise, which disfigures and corrupts higher education in...

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  2. Mistrust and misuse 1

    It was with some dismay that I read Geoffrey Copland's article about the future of industrial relations (Opinion, July 21). The national bargaining arrangements are in place to ensure that staff in...

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  3. Mistrust and misuse 2

    I was amused by how Niall Mackay's letter (July 14) proved Susan Bassnett's argument on misunderstandings about university finances (Working Knowledge, July 7). With one third of tuition fees to be...

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  4. People skills needed

    The report "Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies" (July 21) raises two issues. The first is that the emphasis of the new recruitment focus appears to be whether vice-chancellors can cope with financial...

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  5. Postgrad posts 1

    The articles "Postgraduates told: those who can, teach" and "Juggling staff have crisis of identity" (July 7) both point out the inadequacy of the research PhD as preparation for an academic career....

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  6. Postgrad posts 2

    Reliance on PhD students to deliver undergraduate tutorials and seminars has - particularly in the US - enabled undergraduate expansion while keeping tuition fees under control ("PhDs told to avoid...

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  7. Get them, keep them 1

    Your story about access and drop-out rates based on the Higher Education Funding Council for England performance indicators ("The hits and the misses", July 21) gives a very negative picture of...

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  8. Get them, keep them 2

    So, despite the best efforts of those of us who engage in "widening participation" events, access to university remains stubbornly inegalitarian ("Access initiatives reach an impasse", July 21). Here...

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  9. Childcare? Don't care

    The article "Childcare costs eat deeply into pay packet" (July 7) mentioned the salary sacrifice scheme designed to help meet the costs of childcare. Unfortunately, I work for a Catholic college that...

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  10. Don't dilute discipline

    I read with amusement and concern the article "Geography breaks out of its borders" (July 21), which consisted of a sycophantic celebration of the recruitment strategy of the geography department at...

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  11. Fighting the war on dogma

    Universities combat extremism by exposing untruth and teaching critical thinking, argues Bhikhu Parekh Over the past four decades, the unusual pressures to which universities have been subjected have...

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  12. Hooked after a whiff of salt water

    Trevor Norton, marine ecologist, kicks off a series on academics' pastimes and how they feed into their research At school my speciality was failing exams, but television changed my life forever when...

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  13. A history of afflicting the comfortable

    Huw Richards attends a 'witness seminar' on the Church of England's radical 1980s report on inner cities Although the term was not widely used then, the Church of England's Faith in the City (FITC)...

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  14. Des res for the far from skint student

    En suite, 'hospitality teams', gleaming show suites - Harriet Swain charts the rise in demand for upmarket digs This month, a new kind of shop opened in central London. It caters exclusively for...

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