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  1. Exhilarating, not the pits

    Of the two academics you quote in "Sandpits bring out worst in infantilised researchers" (2 July), the first, Thomas Docherty, hasn't been to one; the second, an unnamed researcher, apparently hasn't...

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  2. History is bunk

    In "1588 and all that" (11 June), Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes a pointless (if inoffensive) swipe at Ben Macintyre for stating that less than 50 per cent of under-34s know that "Sir Francis Drake...

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  3. Total commitment

    I would like to make it clear that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is committed to the agenda outlined by Lord Drayson regarding focusing research funding on areas of...

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  4. Let sleeping dogmata lie 1

    Caron Dann (From where I sit, 2 July) has every right to be irritated by the misuse of English by her students. No one who values the accurate use of language could be anything less than disturbed by...

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  5. Let sleeping dogmata lie 2

    It is difficult to convey the value of grammar to students who have only experienced it as an indicator of social status. Their teachers have failed to show how knowledge of grammar supports...

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  6. One giant leap unreported

    I am surprised that the relocation of Exeter College from the University of Oxford to Cambridge (Published this week, 2 July) has not been featured in your news pages.Tony Harker, University College...

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  7. Sporting life

    It's good to see ߣߣÊÓƵ finally develop a dedicated sports section (Off Piste). Could it be relocated to the back pages?Jon Dart, senior lecturer, Department of sport, health, leisure...

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  8. Bombay dreams

    India hopes to join the superpower elite, but there is not enough international quality in its higher education system. Phil Baty reports on how it aims to raise standards by overhauling regulation...

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  9. Take the time to get it right

    Philip Altbach advises India to tread carefully - the international experience shows that simply throwing open the doors to foreign providers is no panacea

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  10. Bubble trouble

    The humanities are in the same state financial markets were in before they crashed. Assessing the growing mountain of toxic intellectual debt, Philip Gerrans considers going short on some overvalued...

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  11. In search of singular insight

    Social sciences have advanced little because inquiry and discovery are stifled by 'theory' and 'the search for order' in the academy. Gary Thomas says we need to break away from the pattern

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  12. 9 July 2009

    Passage to India - Foreign operators stand by to receive government blessing