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  1. Alan Ryan

    The problem with league tables is that they ignore the fact that institutions are of different sizes and have different strengths I was brought up to believe that it is wicked to shoot sitting ducks...

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  2. Leader: When too much cash is a problem

    March 2003 marked a nadir in the relations between the research councils and their academic communities. For the first time in living memory, MPs openly accused one of the research councils of...

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  3. Leader: Thrifty City's fine line

    Speech may be free but silence can be costly. Academics who book seminar rooms and lecture halls at City University now incur fines for their department if they fail to use them. Along with the fines...

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  4. Raise up the rank outsiders 1

    Some 32 per cent (12) of Australia's universities appear among the world's top 100 (World University Rankings, October 28) compared with 10 per cent (13) of the UK's. This denotes Australia's unique...

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  5. Raise up the rank outsiders 2

    Why isn't Deakin University, Australia, in the top list? La Trobe University and RMIT University can't even beat Deakin. Deakin has a total of 70,000 students, very much diversified, and is one of...

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  6. Raise up the rank outsiders 3

    There must be something wrong with the ranking for Beijing University, China, in your top 100 technology universities. Beijing is ranked 10th. Are you kidding me? Beijing University doesn't have an...

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  7. No liberty for liberals

    Daphne Patai's article lamenting the political censorship in universities was a timely warning to the UK not to follow the path already "chosen" by our US colleagues (Opinion, October 28). Last year...

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  8. Do your dues pay?

    Jill Jones' claim that derisory pay offers suggest the absence of a cosy relationship between unions and employers does not stand up (Letters, October 28). It could equally be argued that poor pay...

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  9. Debate's design flaw

    Nobody involved in architectural education would deny there is some currency in the stereotype portrayed by Alison Wolf (Opinion, October 28) that "architecture schools are almost entirely occupied...

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  10. Privacy proposal

    Full economic costing of grant research proposals is now live and its arrival is to be applauded. The issue of salary costing and calculation of "effort on project" for principal and co-applicants is...

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  11. New breed of trouble

    It would take "four to five years before enough transgenic birds could be bred to replace the world's broiler chicken population" ("Virologists hatch plan to beat bird flu", October 28). The threat...

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  12. Read on

    What a guru Frank Furedi is turning out to be. One of the smallest contributions to The Times Higher on October 21, "Give them a little textual pleasure" (Working Knowledge), was, for me, one of the...

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  13. Einstein on Zionism

    In his review of Einstein on Race and Racism by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, Andrew Robinson refers to Albert Einstein's support for the Zionist movement (Books, October 28). This claim needs to be...

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  14. Patten's point

    Oxford University's chan-cellor, Lord Patten, fully supports the institution's desire to reform its governance structure - but it is wrong to suggest that he is exhorting Cambridge University to...

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  15. The institute of bad ideas

    The world makes little sense. Irrationality and brutality are on the rise. Every day brings more fear, confusion and bewilderment. Are there answers to our questions, solutions to our problems? Not...

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