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  1. No comfort for dictators 2

    George Watson ponders the relevance and impact of poetry in 2010 and does not once mention Bob Dylan. You don't need a weatherman, as the great musician once noted.Keith Flett, London.

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  2. Why we fight 1

    Regarding the Universities and Colleges Employers Association's refusal to negotiate a nationwide agreement on job security ("National action over jobs cuts likely, union says", 29 July): Ucea's...

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  3. Why we fight 2

    The UK coalition government's strategy for public services, notably the NHS and in all likelihood the academy, is to make massive cuts and then pass to professionals, users and local people...

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  4. Ends rather than means

    I find Adrian Quinn's opinion piece extraordinary ("Paying for a course doesn't mean students can buy a degree", 29 July). By stating that attendance at lectures should be compulsory, he seems to...

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  5. Joined-up models can pass the buck

    It is remarkable to see how easily the heads of respectable universities are being seduced by models drawn from the market ("Global future: together alone", 29 July). There is clearly a strong case...

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  6. Quality, not quantity

    I enjoyed Greg Garrard's interrogation of the packed reading lists in university literature courses ("A novel idea: slow reading", 17 June). This is an old problem: however, it is not as old as one...

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  7. Pub-level argument 1

    Why did you publish "Get in shape: lose the fat" (29 July)? That Clive Bloom rants in public against another department in his own institution is bad form, but his article also suffers from a...

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  8. Pub-level argument 2

    Clive Bloom, please get your facts "in shape". His article on the direction of post-1992 institutions, using Middlesex University as the prime example of how we have got things wrong, is totally...

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  9. No comfort for dictators 1

    In his otherwise interesting article on the role of poetry today, "The virtue of verse" (29 July), George Watson claims that Modernist works such as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot "may have been...

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  10. No thinkable alternative

    Producing graduates who are critical thinkers requires teachers who can bring scholarship and leadership to the academy. It is vital that we find them, says Paul Ramsden

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  11. Credit where it's overdue

    It is a familiar lament: teaching excellence is doomed never to be rewarded as handsomely as research success - if at all. But some institutions are determined to tackle the pedagogical deficit....

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  12. The Play's the thing

    Be it on the pitch or on the stage, performance is king and the passion it arouses is key to why Dominic Shellard loves the theatre - and football

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  13. Bound for glory

    Many academics feel anxious about approaching and working with a publisher. Katharine Reeve, who has been on both sides of the fence, dispels myths about the publishing process and offers advice on...

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  14. 5 August 2010

    Critical analysis - ‘Pedagogic pact’ the key to developing discerning graduates

  15. All change at Southampton as new structure is unveiled

    Seven new deans have been appointed by the University of Southampton after the research-intensive institution reorganised its academic structure.The university, which has more than 22,000 students...

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