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  1. Leader: Due recognition of understated successes

    The Times Higher 's first foray into the world of awards has been encouraging and eye-opening. The response has not only demonstrated the extraordinary range of high-quality work taking place in UK...

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  2. A stress-free PhD? A snip at $250

    Stephen Phillips investigates the elusive world of bogus internet degrees and finds customers in high placesTo judge by the picture on its homepage, Robertstown University was grand, palatial even....

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  3. Reaching out not overstretching 1

    I take issue with the contention in the Foster inquiry that "the majority of colleges should stop dabbling in higher education" ("Colleges' mixed report", November 18). No one would argue with Sir...

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  4. Reaching out not overstretching 2

    Sir Andrew Foster's report suggested that the majority of colleges should stop "dabbling" and focus on what they do best - delivering skills and employability to their students. Colleges rarely make...

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  5. Stasi 'evidence' 1

    I am a former prisoner of the Stasi (the East German secret police) who was held in December 1983 in the infamous Hohenschonhausen Prison in Berlin on trumped-up charges of treason against an...

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  6. Stasi 'evidence' 2

    Anthony Glees claims that no one challenged The Stasi Files ' integrity when it appeared. I did and added that I would not honour it even with a bad review. I sent a detailed refutation to The...

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  7. Client not customer 1

    Students are neither customers ("persons who buy"), nor consumers ("persons who purchase goods or services") - they are clients ("persons who seek the advice of a professional man or woman"). Sir...

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  8. Client not customer 2

    Your correspondents (Letters, November 18) make some telling points against Sir Howard Newby's call for a more businesslike approach to student "customers" rather than the old-fashioned university "...

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  9. Money well spent?

    There are still many UK academics capable of excellent social research. And what do our human resource directors do? They conduct totally discredited "employee satisfaction surveys" then pay unknown...

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  10. Federal issues 1

    I was perplexed by your article "Politician warns Welsh will flock to leave unless alliance shifts" (November 18), about the federal University of Wales. This year's "moves... to allow (member...

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  11. Federal issues 2

    The Times Higher has carried stories about the Quality Assurance Agency's criticisms of the two great federal universities, London and Wales. In each case, auditors questioned how far the university...

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  12. Federal issues 3

    I see that once again Imperial College London is threatening to leave the federal structure of the University of London. Time, surely, for some old-time Stalinism here. Why doesn't the university...

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  13. Students set example

    That Italy's universities may be the provenance of a discrimination warranting the first European Court of Justice fines for discrimination is regrettable. ("Lettori in court to claim fines",...

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  14. US versus UK 1

    No one will dispute the value of more diversity, but adopting a US-style admissions system would take us back 50 years. Does Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto (Opinion, November 18) seriously imply that we...

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  15. US versus UK 2

    The US admissions system does have many merits. It has, however, been tested and scrutinised by the courts at every turn. The "Michigan cases" (Grutter and Gratz, 2003) follow a long line of cases...

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