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  1. Alan Ryan

    'What might we sensibly do about reforming degree classification? What we could usefully do, as usual, is steal the Americans' clothing' Our 'ancient' degree system is no such thing, and tripartite...

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  2. Leader: The world still rates UK highly

    The simultaneous publication of the Higher Education Policy Institute's report on academic mobility and the beginning of our second round of world rankings  suggests that UK universities are...

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  3. Leader:Magic of the market

    It is a rather strange state of affairs when a trade union firmly rooted to the principle of national pay bargaining publicly celebrates the arrival of local pay deals and the opening-up of a clear...

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  4. A strange approach to sharing 1

    Does anyone claim that if I am joint owner of a house, I can sell it without the knowledge or permission of the other owners and pocket the money? That appears to be the concept of joint ownership...

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  5. A strange approach to sharing 2

    Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the Blumsohn case, Sheffield University's interpretation of intellectual property rights is very worrying. The university appears to believe that any author or...

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  6. Dissatisfied with poll 1

    A number of methodological issues are cause for concern in the national student satisfaction survey ("Student poll puts staff under pressure", September 23). First, the subject categories bear little...

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  7. Dissatisfied with poll 2

    Could Peter Williams (Quality Assurance Agency chief executive) please tell us what the correlation is between the outcome of institutional audits and the national student survey? If the correlation...

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  8. Dissatisfied with poll 3

    It is a shame that The Times Higher's "most accurate overall measure" of the feedback provided by students excluded a number of small and specialist institutions ("Redbricks get thumbs down",...

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  9. Unbalanced table 1

    So women professors are paid less than their male counterparts at the University of Central England ("'Deplorable' pay inequity persists", September 30). Never let the facts get in the way of a good...

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  10. Unbalanced table 2

    Lacking as they do any statistical analysis of variance, most of your tabular surveys are pretty meaningless, but in the absence of figures for age distribution the survey on pay is especially so....

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  11. Terror report fears

    The report by Anthony Glees and Chris Pope of Brunel University on extremist groups operating on university campuses offers nothing to the serious debate about how to address terrorism ("Beacons of...

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  12. Scared to be sick

    There may be a more sinisterJexplanation for the lower absence rates for university employees compared with other public and private sector workers ("Academics' good health is not to be sneezed at",...

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  13. Double marking

    I can understand the need for top universities or employers to distinguish the best of the best from the rest and the ensuing debate on A-level exam results and the alternative options for assessing...

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  14. Old news on history

    Gordon Johnson's review concludes that Amartya Sen's latest book The Argumentative Indian 's "use of history is... unscrupulous and trivialising". (Books, September 30). Hardly a surprise since I...

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  15. Amen to the pursuit of truth and reason

    Folk beliefs unite humanity, while religious beliefs divide us. A. C. Grayling asks why we believe and pits intellectual honesty against the draw of the deity. Everything anyone does is motivated by...

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