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  1. Teachers must tune in to student diversity 3

    Three cheers for Eric Sotto. His article provides a refreshing change of focus from the research excellence framework and was an intelligent contribution to the debate about teacher training for...

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  2. 'Breaking' the code

    In his letter last week, Adam Afriyie, the Conservative Shadow Science Minister, explains that when he said that ministers have the right to sack independent science advisers "because they don't like...

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  3. Careless talk

    Constantine Sandis is to be applauded for his rejection of the notion that academics have an absolute right to free speech ("Free speech within reason", 21 January). Academic freedom is too important...

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  4. Feel as you're told 1

    The manifestation of mushrooming wellbeing initiatives across the academic landscape may be rooted in a number of factors, and I applaud those colleagues who question their altruism ("Get happy, and...

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  5. Feel as you're told 2

    Although the website for the Higher Education Funding Council for England says that our project, Creating Success through Wellbeing in Higher Education, received £174,000, which you report, the...

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  6. Feel as you're told 3

    Members of the Abrahamic religions know that wellbeing initiatives in education are doomed to fail. Ecclesiastes 1:18 - "He who increases knowledge increases sorrow."Ian McNay, Professor emeritus,...

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  7. Cutters' creed

    Hefce's proposal to "require the governing body to take steps to rectify the position" if it considers that the "accountable officer cannot be relied upon" could indeed lead to the enforced removal...

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  8. Statistics, damned statistics

    Your latest student satisfaction survey contains glaring methodological shortcomings ("It's all about them", 14 January). Most striking is the minute sample size (in our university's case, 0.16 per...

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  9. Quantity surveying

    Reportedly, University of Leeds research shows that 5.5 billion packed lunches with poor nutritional content are eaten by British children each year (Campus round-up, 21 January). But there were only...

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  10. No one's at the wheel!

    I'm worried about 11 February. It's a perfect day to take over your university, as it's likely that the senior managers will be out. The THE is sponsoring the Leadership Foundation's HE Leadership...

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  12. Odds and quads

    This 1.5m long feathered rope was found in a Somerset attic in the late 1870s, alongside six brooms and an old chair.It was presented in The Folk-Lore Journal in 1887 as a "witches' ladder": the...

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  15. Overseas briefing

    United StatesMedics reject Baptist mergerMoves to strengthen links between a medical college and a Baptist university have led to protests over a potential clash between religion and science....

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