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  1. Leader: Repairing the campus

    The first and proudest boast of Education Secretary Alan Johnson's speech to the Labour Party conference involved the thousands of state schools refurbished with government money. This week's report...

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  2. Change rules to end game-play 1

    Ed Hughes, the research assessment exercise manager, could easily minimise game-playing by universities that don't submit all researchers ("RAE 2008: only the very best need apply", September 22). He...

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  3. Change rules to end game-play 2

    Which is fairer of the following two systems? First, one in which an institution with a department of 100 academics, 99 of whom are worthy of a 1* research rating and one of a 5* rating, chooses to...

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  4. Change rules to end game-play 4

    If the research assessment exercise officers wished to minimise game-playing they would have adopted the suggestion of the Roberts report and insisted that departments submit all their staff. The...

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  5. Change rules to end game-play 5

    I note that the research assessment exercise bureaucracy has become so great that even Bob Dylan has been forced to comment in his latest communique to his followers ["the world of research has gone...

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  6. Wider debate 1

    I was interested to see so many letters responding to my opinion piece and the story about widening participation ("Experts: access policy futile" and Opinion, September 15, Letters, September 22)....

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  7. Wider debate 2

    It is quite right to have regular debates about the meaning and purpose of widening participation. But the more pressing issue is not about getting them in but getting them to stay. Having just...

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  8. Policy problem

    "Mental health crisis on campus" (September 22) describes many of the kinds of pheno-mena uncovered in research we conducted last year. Vulnerable people are being persuaded to enter education. We...

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  9. School's out 1

    Last week I was asked to comment on the report that the London School of Economics was considering establishing a "Blair School of Government". I said, by e-mail: "We have had no discussions with the...

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  10. School's out 2

    A Blair School of Government seems a little far-fetched. But a Blair Institute of War would surely be just the thing. Keith Flett Tottenham

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  11. Different market 1

    What is most depressing about the discussion of market forces in UK higher education ("Bankruptcies on the cards" and Opinion, September 22) is the simplistic terms in which it is being conducted by...

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  12. Different market 2

    Terence Kealey and other advocates of market-based solutions to education are correct to point out that a genuine free market in education will result in some universities going bankrupt. But such...

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  13. Suffering sentients

    The author of "Long and tortuous goodbye to Stud Muffin No 1" (September 22) says: "The day I see a mouse pay National Insurance contributions I might delude myself that it is a sentient creature."...

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  14. Rock on 1

    Surely the institution that contributed most to rock history must be Coventry University, as this was where Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-ling was recorded ("That gown is so rock'n'roll", September 8)....

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  15. Rock on 2

    Surely it is more significant when a group is formed at university rather than just noting that a band member was an alumnus. Thus groups such as The Editors (from Staffordshire University) are more...

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