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  1. The week in higher education - 28 November 2013

    His department’s sums might be in a muddle, but it seems David Willetts has committed a more unforgivable sin: creating a generation of teetotal, work-obsessed student bores. Assessing the impact of...

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  2. Those colours have run

    Your article about Kurdistan featured an image of the Saddam-era flag of Iraq (From where I sit, 21 November). It was replaced in 2008.Joe DochertyUniversity of Portsmouth

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  3. Flawed oral tradition

    I’ve just read “Darkling we watch” (Culture, 14 November). Duncan Wu uses the phrase “he administers cunnilingus on his girlfriend”. “Administers”? Cunnilingus isn’t medication or a local authority:...

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  4. Ramsey growth model

    I agree with Martin Cohen’s comment in his review of David Edmonds’ Would You Kill the Fat Man? that the author’s claim for Ludwig Wittgenstein being “the most influential philosopher in the Anglo-...

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  5. Meet and greet

    The Council for College and University English endorses the call for wider debate over issues affecting the discipline (“Constructive criticism”, Letters, 21 November). We would welcome the presence...

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  6. Funding black holes

    The paradox suggested by Piled Higher and Deeper (21 November), that travelling forward in time to peek at the results of your research would mean the research was never undertaken, is akin to the “...

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  7. Moral economy

    Robert Colls is right that the 50th anniversary of the publication of E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class deserves to be marked and celebrated (“The Making and the man”, 21...

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  8. Dog-eat-dog snarling

    The hothouse rivalries and cut-throat competition that typify today’s university surely add fuel to the fire of abusive academic discourse (“Nasty, brutish and short”, 7 November).The struggle for...

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  9. Market deficit

    The letters on the Universities Superannuation Scheme published by ߣߣƵ in the past two weeks (“Assets, liabilities and old age tensions”, 14 November; “Equity inequities”, 21 ...

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  10. Police state actors

    We the undersigned unreservedly condemn the arrest of Michael Chessum, president of the University of London Union, for allegedly organising a demonstration apparently contrary to the Public Order...

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  11. Humanities in need of wider Horizon 2020

    We are deeply concerned by the plans for Horizon 2020, the European Union’s forthcoming seven-year research and innovation programme. The promises made by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, commissioner for...

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  12. Never having to say sorry

    Should our university be ashamed because it occupies such a lowly rank in the current list of UK universities?That was the question our reporter Keith Ponting (30) put to Deputy Head of Brand...

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  15. EPSRC calls for more CDT cash

    Council pushes government to provide additional funding in light of abundance of high quality bids to run centres for doctoral training

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