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  1. Itching to impress

    Kevin Fong decides to not make a meal of a life-threatening situation

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  2. Policing fees: Offa just doesn't have the staff

    So ministers and their advisers misunderstood the law relating to the Office for Fair Access' powers to require universities to charge specific tuition-fee levels? ("You mean Offa is toothless? The...

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  3. Glasgow, say it isn't so (1 of 3)

    We are dismayed by the proposal of the University of Glasgow to eliminate German, Czech, Russian, Italian and Polish from its curriculum ("Polyglots plot as Glasgow letter screams foul over axe", 17...

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  4. Glasgow, say it isn't so (2 of 3)

    I was appalled to learn of the proposed cuts to languages and the department of adult and continuing education at the University of Glasgow.In an increasingly interlinked world, knowledge of other...

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  5. Glasgow, say it isn't so (3 of 3)

    I am shocked to hear that the University of Glasgow is considering making broad cuts in language instruction, particularly the Slavic languages. One of the reasons for Glasgow's global repute is the...

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  6. Bias? Clue's in the question

    London-based institutions perform poorly in your Student Experience Survey ("Taking everything into consideration", 17 February). St George's, University of London does best (th); next is Royal...

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  7. Contextual caveats

    Christine Buccella's feature, "The pursuit of hire education" (24 February), was a lucid reminder that students have a wealth of information available to them as they make their university choices -...

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  8. Invisible hand is empty

    Tim Leunig's claim in "Quit the quotas: only competitive tension will keep fees down" (17 February) that more competition almost always brings prices down is contradicted by the history of mis-...

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  9. PhD: D is for discrimination

    The decision by City University London and Birkbeck, University of London to make PhDs a standard job requirement ("Doctor yes: the rise and rise of PhDs as standard", 17 February) may well amount to...

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  10. Impact factors

    With the disappearance of most public money for teaching in the humanities, there is no reason to maintain the Chinese wall between funding for research and teaching. Accordingly, "impact" should be...

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  11. Men's hour (again)

    I recently conducted research on the gender make-up of the panels announced for the research excellence framework. The methodology employed was counting (I'm not very good at it, so the results...

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  12. Swansong for ugly duckling

    Rather than giving me the bird with mixed metaphors on cuckoos and swallows (Letters, 24 February), Douglas Kell, a research council chief executive officer, might reflect on why Ken Seddon, the UK's...

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  13. Vocational support

    Geoff Smith asks about the difference between a salary and a stipend (Letters, 24 February). It is subtle but significant. A salary is payment for work done, whereas a stipend is payment to support...

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  14. They've started, but will they finish?

    Some 13 million students enrol in the US community college system each year, but only about a third graduate. How can completion rates be improved? Zoë Corbyn reports on what is being done to turn '...

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  15. If I were you, Mr Willetts...

    As the White Paper that will lay out the government's agenda for change is delayed 'to test proposals more thoroughly', seven former education ministers offer their recommendations. Simon Baker...

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