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  1. Go short term on RAE 1

    Eric Thomas correctly asks for extensive academic input into the shaping of the new research assessment exercise ("Add input to make metrics count", November 9). The single most important factor...

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  2. 4GLS leapfrog

    Your report on the decision not to proceed with the fourth-generation light source (4GLS) rightly draws attention to the disappointment felt by scientists at the Daresbury laboratory and in the...

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  3. Apprenticeship myths 1

    There are perhaps 100,000 level 3 apprentices in the UK with a target for 400,000 by 2020. Few apprentices are guaranteed employment as they were in 1968 when a quarter of male school-leavers...

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  4. It's a student thing

    Jackie Sherman is mistaken if she believes universities are in a position to "put their students' unions and halls of residence in order" (Letters, November 9). Students' unions are membership...

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  5. From where I stand .. 1

    There's an old Will Hay film that contains the following exchange: Teacher: "Come now, boys - the Earth's not flat." Pupil: "It is where I live." I was reminded of this by your headline "Faith is no...

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  6. Lights out for lifelong learning? 2

    John Denham is still being ?silly. He says he wants the university system to be representative; who doesn’t? What the intake of the most selective places “represents” is those who on the evidence of...

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  7. Social sciences lose 2

    The limited correlation between the evident industrial, business and cultural success of several powerhouse nations (Germany, Japan, Korea) and their world-class universities in any number is a...

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  8. Go short term on RAE 2

    The next version of the RAE will measure citations (“New RAE based on citations”, November 9). So if I publish claims that the world is flat, and the moon made of cheese, I will doubtless have this...

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  9. Apprenticeship myths 2

    As a supporter of good-quality apprenticeships, I agree with Terry Watts that they are due more serious consideration (“Apprenticeships could be an irresistible pitch”, November 9). But they need to...

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  10. From where I stand .. 2

    While I applaud the principle of transparency, things can go too far. Reporting David Willetts' expected words as a direct quote ("Tories: students need greater transparency", November 2) has dragged...

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  11. Lost in translation

    Works of art rely on symbols that are common currency in their creator's society. So can a British audience, say, ever truly understand Chekhov, and must efforts to stage his work all resort to...

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  12. The art of the impenetrable

    The mere thought of academic writing is enough to send most readers packing. It summons memories of agonisingly dull, jargon-laden, elitist mumbo jumbo that is too pedantic and specialised to matter...

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  13. Breaking point

    With political and economic imbalances between the different parts of the UK again in the spotlight, Richard Rose addresses the asymmetries that underpin the question of Scottish independence while...

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  14. Excellent idea in theory

    There is a growing scepticism in higher education about the received meanings of teaching excellence. For example, this year's Higher Education Academy Conference supported a motion that "excellence...

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