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  1. We've come to a sticky end

    Tasks like ordering tape and test tubes halt academic work, Tim Birkhead finds

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  3. James Walsh, 1930-2008

    James (Jim) Walsh was an administrator with a touch of the Bohemian, who helped steer the University of Leeds through turbulent times in the 1980s.Dr Walsh, who died on 30 January, aged 77, helped...

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  4. Civic pride versus damned statistics 1

    I read the Halifax-ߣߣÊÓƵ quality-of-life index ("Where the grass is greener", 6 March) with interest and amusement. As the adage goes, there are lies, damned lies and statistics ......

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  5. Civic pride versus damned statistics 2

    As somebody who works in the university with what is apparently the worst quality of life in the UK, I found the survey bizarre. What was the relative weighting of the various indicators?Was traffic...

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  6. Civic pride versus damned statistics 3

    Working in the urban squalor of a university rated 119th, I can only envy those more fortunate colleagues, located mainly in the south of England, who wake up to the sound of larks ascending and the...

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  7. Civic pride versus damned statistics 4

    The quality-of-life table was an unsubtle version of the old adage that it's grim up north. I suggest that the categories are reorganised so that the discovery of the obvious is not so blatant next...

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  8. Civic pride versus damned statistics 5

    Do academics in Bucks New University, the University of Surrey and Royal Holloway really have a better quality of life than those in Manchester, Sheffield, Oxford and Cambridge? Lots of "goodies" in...

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  9. Civic pride versus damned statistics 6

    Thanks for cheering me up. I haven't laughed so much in ages. Bringing April Fool's Day forward was a great idea. I guess those fortunate people who work at the universities of Surrey and Winchester...

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  10. It adds up to exaggeration

    Your coverage of our plans to increase the impact of our investments is misleading ("RCUK abandons impact formula"; "What price knowledge?", 6 March). We are interested in retrospectively...

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  11. Named and ashamed

    I have never had the guts to study onomastics (Letters, 28 February).John Craven, Vice-chancellor, University of Portsmouth.

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  12. Time to join the multitudes

    There is obviously some confusion at Brunel. ("Controller preparing the platform to elevate Brunel", 28 February). Brunel did not resign from the former Coalition of Modern Universities. It was never...

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  13. Pedagogic chain reaction

    What a pleasant surprise to find my chemistry-focused paper in a more general article ("Teacher-centred teaching", 28 February). There was an excellent summary of my key point - that lecturers'...

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  14. Colonial education

    In reference to the "appalling American convention of following a colon by a capital letter" (Letters, 6 March) and at the risk of perpetuating a rather tiresome argument, may I say that I have never...

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  15. What's behind the label

    Robert Mighall confuses a university's reputation with its "brand" ("The substance behind the image", 6 March). It's not surprising that those with a living to make in this area are untroubled by...

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