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  2. 'I was a lesson: don't speak out'

    Egypt's top court has freed an intellectual after three years' imprisonment under anti-terrorist laws. But Saad Ibrahim's real crime, he tells Phil Baty, was to criticise the government.  It...

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  3. Fun with sadists 2

    I note that a study of students has found that many Italian professors are believed to be sadists, while others are afflicted with neuroses or worse. Indeed, but the students have failed to...

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  4. Women's pioneer

    Hilda Brown ("Sex and the Hildabeast", THES , March 7) writes that "the five (Oxford) women's colleges played a heroic role in advancing higher education for women in the 20th century", but it is...

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  5. More oiks at Oxford

    So the university access regulator has been set up to leaven the effete gene pool of Hooray Henries and Henriettas in our top universities with the odd bit of rough. Who cares? Those who've spent...

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  6. Oakeshottian defence

    Oliver Letwin's contribution ("Why I... believe philosophy still matters", THES , February 28) shows the dangers of the widespread cynical attitude towards politics in Britain. A Popperian or...

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  7. Cash-rich elite depends on the rest 1

    Surely the first lesson to be drawn from the comparison of the endowment funds held by US and UK universities is that super-elite institutions utterly fail to deliver research and teaching in...

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  8. Cash-rich elite depends on the rest 2

    Your article on the transatlantic "endowment gap" surely misses the point. Most of the heavily endowed US universities mentioned are 19th-century private institutions that live or die by the success...

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  9. Managerial split 1

    Steven Schwartz's article ("Can you pinpoint your boss?", THES , March 7) attempts to make the case for a more "business-like" model of university governance, but fails to convince. He states that "...

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  10. Managerial split 2

    The responses to Steven Schwartz's article on the management of UK universities (Letters, THES March 14) were sadly predictable. They were also misguided in failing to recognise that universities are...

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  11. 'Stab in the back' 1

    Roger Brown (Letters, THES , March 14) suggests that it may now be too late for any rational allocation of a stream of funding for research and scholarship. While it is to be hoped that this is not...

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  12. 'Stab in the back' 2

    Advocates of the policy of taking cash from grade 4 departments to fund increases elsewhere fail to understand (or choose to ignore) the fact that the quality of research in a department rated 4a is...

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  13. A head for facts

    Claire Sanders ("There's comfort in hanging on to your head", THES , March 14) implies in her opening paragraphs that no chancellor of Oxford University has yet been executed. This neatly gets round...

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  14. Fun with sadists 1

    I was interested to learn that Giancarlo Nivoli of the University of Sassari in Italy considers that many of his compatriot colleagues suffer from mental illness and that this causes their students...

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