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  1. Laurie Taylor column

    "Future generations will look back on the amount of wasted labour involved in the production of unread academic work with astonishment and contempt" - Colin MacCabe in Critical Quarterly ABSTRACT...

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  2. Leader: Where is the subject focus?

    Week by week, Labour's pre-election blueprint for higher education is taking shape. The White Paper on 14-to-19 education has set the stage at entry level, and now the agreements published by the...

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  3. Leader: Safe campus havens

    British universities have a proud record for taking in refugee academics and students. The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, which has been in business for more than 70 years, counts...

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  4. Vision from above is clouded 1

    How surprising that a survey confined to vice-chancellors and human resource directors should decide that industrial relations problems in higher education do not lie at their door ("HR report slams...

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  5. Vision from above is clouded 2

    So HR and university heads complain about the "cloud cover" between them and middle management and say top management is visionary but middle managers do not find it easy to lead. As very little...

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  6. Vision from above is clouded 3

    The Higher Education Policy Institute "slammed" middle managers because their "loyalties often lie primarily with their subject or their teams". Am I missing something? Nigel Morris Lincoln University

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  7. Quota hits top schools

    It is not only privately educated students who will be affected by the quotas imposed by the London School of Economics ("LSE sets secret state quota", March 11). This policy will have an adverse...

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  8. Racism clarification

    I am writing to correct the impression given in the article "Pay plan 'will stifle' academic freedom" (March 11) that the Oxford University's Student Union is accusing Auckland University of having a...

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  9. Open the archives

    While it is interesting that Laurie Taylor can report on Dr Piercemüller's use of the Freedom of Information Act to uncover the reasons for the rejection of his research applications (March 11),...

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  10. Sounds of good sense

    Those for whom English is an additional language outnumber those for whom it is a first language by about three to one worldwide ("Baffled by ill-spoken English", March 11). On graduating, many of...

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  11. Parental pressures

    After reading Jill Brookes' rant against university open days (Letters, March 4), I suggest that she spends less time fretting over "basic assumptions about parents of potential students" (not the...

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  12. Why so angry?

    It would be unfair to apply academic standards of criticism to a director of finance's musings, but Philip Harding should be able to write an unambiguous letter (March 11). Is he unhappy that the...

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  13. Part-time possibility

    Your coverage of the Rees review presented a useful summary of the six options for funding higher education in Wales ("Welsh may pay less in top-ups", March 4). But it was inaccurate in one...

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  14. Not racist - a realist

    In response to Timothy Insoll's letter last week (itself a response to my article on the need for black studies in the UK), let me state that black studies is a subject for study, a discipline, and...

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  15. Freedom fighters

    Stephen Court raises interesting questions on academic freedom ("Why I think universities must fight harder for academic freedom", March 4). Of course, the Government has a central role to play, but...

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