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  1. Leader: Foundations in need of securing

    For a qualification that is so central to government plans to expand higher education, three years after the first courses were launched the foundation degree remains remarkably little understood....

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  2. Leader: Old attitudes die hard

    There are many reasons why one university may pay higher average salaries than another. The subject profile, large numbers of postdoctoral researchers, even location, may all contribute to apparently...

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  3. Rookies risk fall at RAE hurdle

    Your article, "NZ RAE batters rookies' morale" (August ) highlights a problem that the planners of the next research assessment exercise should note. Documents for the RAE in 2008 suggest that new...

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  4. Fuzzy logic

    "Who is Smithers to call us fuzzy?" (Letters, August ). He is a chartered psychologist. In my remarks to The Times Higher (August 20), I was reflecting my own disappointment at psychology's lack of...

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  5. Image pulped

    The shameful book burning at London Metropolitan University will further damage its image ("Book pulped at London Met", August ). Ex vice-chancellor Roderick Floud should have sorted out any problems...

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  6. Testing question

    Richard Lynn writes that our exam board has "apparently reinvented the intelligence test" (Letters, August ). We have done no such thing, as he would understand if he visited either of our thinking...

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  7. Change of address?

    Last week's article on house costs ("House prices leave city dwellers out in the cold", August ) claims that "staff at St Andrews University enjoy the best prospects for property - the average salary...

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  8. Fine-tuning required 1

    The debate about A-level grade inflation (or not) misses the point. One of the grades' main uses is to enable universities to obtain the best candidates for available places. If an increasing...

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  9. Fine-tuning required 2

    Last week's article about falling levels of basic mathematical skills among electronics and physics students at York University who have particular maths A-level grades is interesting ("B-grade maths...

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  10. Still free to speak

    Gamma minus for clear-headedness to the drafters of the Higher Education Act 2004 ("Union calls for strong watchdog", August ) on one or two additional points. They have neglected to repeal the...

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  11. Burning issue

    I read William Rubinstein's review of The Burning Tigris: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Books, August 6) with amazement. Rubinstein not only states that there was an Armenian genocide, which is...

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  12. Wet idea

    I am sure academics will endorse Bruce Charlton's views on the latest piece of bureaucratic dottiness from civil servants, although whoever chose the title "transparency" obviously has a nice sense...

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  13. Dodgy dealings 1

    George Macdonald Ross is right (Letters, August ). The concept of plagiarism is complex and disputed, but perhaps also endemic in academic life as a whole. In a brief check using Joint Information...

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  14. Dodgy dealings 2

    Since the Government feels entitled to start wars on the basis of plagiarised "dodgy dossiers", I fail to see why universities such as Sunderland should be embarrassed about awarding degrees on the...

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  15. There's a Scot, an Irishman, and a man who is confused...

    Britain is an exception to the common nationalist belief that every nation should constitute a state and that a state is weaker if it is multinational (as J. S. Mill said in his famous debate with...

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