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  1. Manchester Met/Oxford Brookes - It's a start

    Two universities are offering schemes to help graduates increase their employability. Manchester Metropolitan University is to give graduates three weeks of training before helping them to find work...

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    #News
    #University of Oxford

  2. Blend administration roles

    The debate about whether administrators should ever be allowed the title "professor" seems to me a part of the wider debate about the academic/administrator divide ("Call to reserve professor title...

    #Letters

  3. Business lead in e-learning

    In your article "Questions of cost and usefulness dog e-learning" (4 June), it was reported that academics see e-learning as expensive and time-consuming when it comes to teaching students. Clearly,...

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  4. A plot that failed

    The University of St Andrews is not the first in the UK to experiment with giving all new students a book and encouraging them to discuss it in book clubs when they arrive at campus ("One book clubs...

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  5. Organising principle

    In response to Alan Campbell's disappointment at my blighting of scholarly tradition (Letters, 4 June): I did not take issue with Gary Daniels and John McIlroy's analysis of political or economic...

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  6. Time, gentleman

    As time goes by, I value increasingly the worth of subtle, reflective argument and applaud those rare occasions on which bombast disappears from the everyday round. I deem it an act of kindness in...

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  7. All co-ordinates covered 1

    Justin Marozzi's jeremiad concerning the Royal Geographical Society is wide of the mark (Letters, 11 June).I do not recognise his caricatured assessment and would urge interested readers to explore...

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  8. All co-ordinates covered

    The Royal Geographical Society is, and always has been, a broad church. Those who suppose that academic credibility is detrimental to the organisation need only look to its history. In recent years,...

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  9. Not thought out

    I see from an ad in ߣߣÊÓƵ that the Russell Group's role is to provide "thought leadership" to "the UK's 20 leading research-intensive universities". The ad talks of "a robust...

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  10. It's bad, business

    How ironic that the Government should see fit to place intellectuals at the behest of big business ("'Universities' out as DIUS is succeeded by business ministry", 11 June) just when it is precisely...

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  11. Concern over London's research resources 1

    I have been following with deepening anxiety the increasing dangers faced by research libraries in London, on many of which my research and that of many French colleagues depends (Letters, 4 June)....

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  12. Concern over London's research resources 2

    Recent correspondence on the future of the University of London's library has focused on the Senate House Library itself. But the Research Library Services also include the libraries of the...

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  13. Concern over London's research resources 3

    I am alarmed by the letter of the vice-chancellor of the University of London, Sir Grahame Davies, in which he seeks to reassure an earlier correspondent as to the fate of the University of London...

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  14. How green is my tally?

    The Green League table shows that many institutions are very serious about sustainability, and laggards are being pushed along by plans to link funding to progress in cutting carbon use. Hannah Fearn...

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  15. Wisdom received, over and out

    Imagine being able to gain wisdom instantly, use it to make a vital decision and then lose it again (if you wish) to wallow in ignorance. Would being able to do so, which is not a distant prospect,...

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