They deserve obliteration
In his letter last week ("Blame, a zero-sum game", 22 September), Matthew Huntbach writes: "As a left-leaning Lib Dem, I hate what this government is doing, but as a democrat I have to accept its...
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A nurturing environment
I want to correct a comment made by Uwe Schütte in his article about Max Sebald in describing the foundation of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, since I...
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The bigger, the better
Regarding "'Protected' MRC still sees fall in grant winners" (15 September): while slightly fewer grants proportionately were awarded by the Medical Research Council in 2010-11 than the previous year...
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Perishable premium
"Not such a superpower after all" (Leader, 15 September) had its pros and cons.The con was repeating the myth that the graduate premium persists with more graduates: the fact is that the comparator...
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Stick close to the nest
Peter Brady asks what would happen to UK universities if many British students decided to study abroad ("Flock may change course", 15 September). We must also ask what this would mean for the...
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Statistically insignificant
So yet another league table based on partial and inaccurate data - ie, the almost meaningless graduate employment figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency ("Salary premium from post-92s...
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Ironic, don't you think?
In "Taking Lithuanian leave" (8 September) Malcolm Gillies offers a bizarre neoliberal view of consumer culture in a higher education context: "Can we afford such generous holidays any more?"; "Will...
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Prosaic treatment
A competition to encourage medical students to write poetry is no doubt admirable ("Evoke Calliope to ease the brutalising disease", 22 September). Unfortunately, none of the winning entries is a...
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Film review: Melancholia
Melancholia obliterates all around it, figuratively and literally, in Lars Von Trier's latest film, says Philip Dodd
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TV reviews: Fresh Meat & Educating Essex
Campus comedy may be stuck in the past but the school hall is full of innovation, says Gary Day
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Ludwik Finkelstein, 1929-2011
Ludwik Finkelstein survived exile in Siberia at an early age to become one of the longest-serving members of staff at City University London and a noted engineer.Professor Finkelstein was born in...
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Campus round-up
Coventry UniversityAcademy al frescoA sustainable £32 million student services building has been opened, featuring natural ventilation and solar water heating. Coventry University officially opened...
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Odds and quads
This collection of 29 horses' teeth was assembled by Louis Auzoux (1797-1880), a French doctor who made models of humans, animals and plants for use in teaching medicine and anatomy.
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