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  1. Leader: Offa must be seen to work

    The more lurid speculation about £500,000 fines and refusals to sanction top-up fees is all but put to rest in this week's guidance on access agreements and the supporting comments of Sir Martin...

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  2. Leader: Pitfalls of the quick win

    It is difficult to argue with the principle behind the Treasury's proposals for closer monitoring of research funding. The Chancellor has boosted the science budget by billions of pounds and he wants...

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  3. Rankings don't tell whole truth 1

    Your top 200 ranking (World University Rankings, November 5) needs some refinement to allow for performance relative to funding. Until June 2002, I was an associate professor at the University of the...

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  4. Rankings don't tell whole truth 2

    It is pretty obvious that big, rich countries have a large and strong university sector, but what if the effects of size and wealth are discounted? One way to do this is to regress national total...

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  5. Rankings don't tell whole truth 3

    Subscribing to The Times Higher has much to recommend it: for example, not getting the "free inside" offers meant not getting the World University Rankings booklet. The Times Higher always stayed...

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  6. Rankings don't tell whole truth 4

    With regard to research performance, the most objective measure must be the citations/faculty score. This is consistently higher for US over UK institutions. But the difference between the highest...

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  7. Rankings don't tell whole truth 5

    "US dominates worldwide league tables". How can that be? They do not have the RAE. R. J. Wootton Llanbadarn Fawr

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  8. Stand up for science

    For two weeks I waited for the expected flood of responses to Christie Davies's scurrilous piece (Soapbox, October 15) about abandoning our efforts to teach science. Yet not a single reply has...

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  9. Amis-sed opportunity

    Have those older professors who convince themselves that they were appointed in a halcyon era of rigour and professionalism ever taken the trouble to read Lucky Jim ? Chris Hackley Royal Holloway

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  10. Questions of degree 1

    Would it really be sensible to replace degree classes by some other system, supposedly objective and more fine-grained? Percentage marks do not and should not possess the kind of objectivity that...

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  11. Questions of degree 2

    John Curran is right to point out the variation in the methods by which honours classifications are calculated. That is not new. Ten years ago, the Student Assessment and Classification Working Group...

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  12. Questions of degree 3

    I was pleased to see Robert Burgess's comments (Soapbox, November 5) about the value of every classification of degree. This year we awarded a discretionary prize to a graduate who had barely scraped...

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  13. Only transmit?

    Frank Furedi has certainly provoked me this week (Working Knowledge, November 5). There are, of course, many academics without a qualification in "teaching" who are excellent lecturers and one reason...

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  14. Union rules

    Regarding a name for the merged Association of University Teachers and the lecturers' union Natfhe: will we eschew single-word names that sound like an online bank? Might the word "union" be included...

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  15. Ethics, boys and girls

    Ethics, boys and girls Surely it is more of a cause for celebration than regret that the majority of UK universities have managed to put up such resistance to the ill-considered movement to replicate...

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