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  1. Research must fight status quo 1

    The Times Higher has done a great job in highlighting what has been happening with the previously unmentionable underbelly of the research assessment exercise process ("Exclusions from RAE see steep...

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  2. Research must fight status quo 2

    It is sad, but perhaps not surprising that in a desperate search for the holy grail of top research assessment exercise ratings some universities are employing "phantom" staff ("Paid to be on RAE...

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  3. Research must fight status quo 3

    You are trying too hard to pump up the issue of research assessment exercise exclusion. Of course some people are having a bad experience and some universities are being silly, but the statistics you...

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  4. Be fair or be flexible 1

    Take a look at the web home pages of a few US academics and you will see they typically offer a more varied and interesting set of assessments than is the case in the UK ("Inherently frail - the...

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  5. Be fair or be flexible 2

    Derek Rowntree has a point (Letters, November 2): it is undoubtedly useful (to car owners) to receive a comprehensive report following a series of basic checks. But if a student's degree is worth...

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  6. Degrees in drinking 1

    Universities condone or even encourage students to binge drink, and it is time they put their students' unions and halls of residence in order. After a month at university, my non-drinking son...

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  7. Admission by lottery

    Alan Ryan is quite right that no amount of tinkering with current admissions procedures would "alter the state/private balance of the intake - let alone their class background" (Letters, November 2...

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  8. Green view of debate

    Jim Butcher is right on two counts to complain about the way "sustainable literacy" is being promoted in higher education ("Keep the green moral agenda off campus", October 19). The first count he...

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  9. Pensions plea

    Correspondents targeting Universities UK and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (Letters, October 26) fail to understand the purpose of the higher education employers' review of...

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  10. Mistaken identity

    The detail from Michelangelo's School of Athens above the caption "Aristotle: posited the existence of a sixth sense" (Books, November 2) shows not Aristotle, but Plato pointing upwards to his realm...

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  11. Speak out on bullying

    I have been a target of workplace bullying in the university where I work. I have been so ill with stress that I have taken time off work. When I returned I was ignored by colleagues, my grievance...

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  12. Ideas belong to people

    Joseph Mintz says "religion has powerful and important things to say about how we should be in the world" ("Faith is no barrier to intelligent discourse", November 2). I suggest that religion has...

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  13. Uncharted territory

    Maps are not simply sources of information, says Matthew Edney. They are records of and mirrors for the political, social and emotional trajectories of the times in which they were produced. The...

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  14. What a tangled web we weave

    Websites are the public face of universities - why are so many unfriendly and unhelpful? asks Anthony Haynes. Do you sometimes wonder why someone else was offered a lucrative consultancy, featured in...

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