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  1. Poor quality subsidised by bundles of despair

    The electronic distribution of academic journals has many advantages, but the business model that underpins it has a fatal flaw.Central to it is the "bundling" of journals. When we subscribe to a...

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  2. Knowledge is not enough

    I wonder if Thomas Docherty has any first-hand experience of apprenticeships ("To provide teaching of quality, we must get back to our roots", 9 July). Far from being characterised by mutual respect...

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  3. Sharp insights 1

    Gary Thomas can't think of any "major social-scientific achievements" ("In search of singular insight", 9 July). Well, Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen, in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on...

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  4. Sharp insights 2

    The strange article by Gary Thomas suggests to me that the author knows little about modern economics research.The May 2009 issue of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, one of the leading...

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  5. Faith, hope and clarity 1

    Those privileged to hear Ron Barnett's plenary address at the Higher Education Academy conference will probably be wondering what's in store for the universities of the future ("Selfish models lose...

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  6. Faith, hope and clarity 2

    Thanks for the list of universities, Ron. Perhaps you should add another one to it: the "bullying" university. You could ask it to "rediscover its responsibilities to staff". I tried but got nowhere....

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  7. Simplistic diagnosis

    I was surprised to read under the headline "Medics riled by tests of professional behaviour" (9 July) that I had "defended" our work on professionalism among medical students, since this suggests...

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  8. Take your word for it

    One of the few advantages of delivering higher education in further education colleges concerns plagiarism ("To catch a plagiarist", 9 July). Most plagiarism in further education is detected by staff...

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  9. Tag, you're it

    I was horrified to read that academics at Liverpool Hope University are being forced into a culture of presenteeism ("Edict curtailing freedom to work at home 'appals' staff", 2 July). Far from...

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  10. Keep them grounded

    I appreciated the article "When it comes to saving the environment, academics don't practise what they preach" (2 July), but perhaps universities should invest in video-conferencing equipment to...

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  11. Unidentified foreign object

    The continuing lament over falling provision in modern language studies resonated for me as I peered at a row of generously donated antiquarian books on sale in the front window of a local charity...

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  12. Premature ageing

    I am concerned that the debate over the age of Keith Ponting has not touched on the sensitive issue of his historical ageing rate. I recollect that he spent considerable time aged "(29)". Ecological...

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  13. The war of the canon

    Some study literature to discover themselves. But the task can be painful, George Watson argues, and the outcome nebulous

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  14. Red, white and blue Moon

    The Apollo programme was an American dream made flesh, but British scientists and engineers played a vital role in its realisation, explains Colin Pillinger

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  15. 16 July 2009

    The bulldog has landed - Colin Pillinger offers his view of humanity’s greatest adventure and the UK’s pivotal role in it