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  2. 'Bad' scientist

    David Colquhoun has succeeded through scare tactics in getting the University of Buckingham Medical School to withdraw from the diploma in the study of integrated medicine (IM) (“It’s terminal for...

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  4. Epic manned mission home

    Kevin Fong takes a road trip across Europe after volcanic ash grounds his plans

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  5. Illusion of quality and trouble with citations 1

    Michael Wood's proposal for "The journal of everything" (22 April) suffers from the usual problem of all such proposals: the lack of a credible business plan. He points out the advantages for authors...

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  6. Illusion of quality and trouble with citations 2

    Your news report "'Publish or perish' culture distorting research results" (22 April) has clear links with the problem of multiple authorship flagged up by ߣߣÊÓƵ in "Phone book et al...

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  7. Undeserving causes 1

    There has been much comment, as expected, in light of the latest data on vice-chancellors' salaries ("It was fun while it lasted", 1 April). The widening salary differential between vice-chancellors...

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  8. Undeserving causes 2

    The idea that the ratio of the highest and lowest pay within an organisation should be limited seems to me to be a good one (Letters, 22 April). However, a constant, as suggested by Ken Smith, would...

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  9. Barbed-wire welcome mat 1

    Overseas students are worth far more to UK academia than tuition fees alone ("More than money is at stake", 22 April): rather than being mere "cash cows", they ensure that studying in Britain (...

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  10. Barbed-wire welcome mat 2

    As someone who has spent their life teaching international students, I read your editorial of 22 April with interest. I agree with you that we cannot ignore facts, but where are the facts that...

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  11. Poor words, not figures

    Nowhere in Lord Oxburgh's report does it say that researchers in the Climatic Research Unit are "poor with figures" (The Week in Higher Education, 22 April). The Oxburgh panel investigated whether or...

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  12. Poor writing and figures

    I empathise with Tim Birkhead's concern about poor penmanship ("Different type of problem", 15 April). In disciplines that focus on the production of narrative writing, it may well be that the word...

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  13. Hobson's choice

    Stella Jones-Devitt complains that many academics will not vote at all, calling us "nihilists" (Letters, 22 April). But Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives all promise major cuts in...

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  14. Simply the 'best'?

    In the THE World University Rankings column (22 April), you say that your new global reputational survey includes data on institutions' research and teaching strengths, with teaching-focused staff...

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  15. The historical present

    Beset by the twin pressures of democratisation and 'impact', the study of the past faces an uncertain future. Richard Overy analyses the threats and offers hope that history will triumph

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