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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    University of Poppleton "Planning for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise", Friday October 1st, Middlewhite Theatre. Livestock Reception Centre. Poppleton Pork Products Plc. Facilitators : Jamie...

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  2. Alan Ryan

    Universities UK should beware the Tories bearing gifts as their plans for UK institutions are duplicitous When the wooden horse appeared below the walls of Troy, the prescient old priest said, "...

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  3. Leader: Indicators herald welcome change

    The novelty has worn off higher education's performance indicators (page 8) since the blaze of publicity that greeted their first appearance five years ago. Like most national statistics, they alter...

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  4. Leader: Don't mention the fees

    After the battering Tony Blair received from his party over top-up fees, no one could blame him for avoiding the subject at the Labour conference this week. But there is something strange about a...

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  5. Red card for awards criticism 2

    Hull University has a thriving sports science programme and local Football Association referee courses are run on its premises; this is the connection with Pierluigi Collina. Far from scoring an own...

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  6. Red card for awards criticism 3

    It may be that the decision to reward an individual with an honorary degree is "uncontroversial" but thetype of degree that is awarded is. While I was teaching in the School of Education at Sussex...

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  7. A local difficulty 1

    Public debates on internal issues are almost always counterproductive. My distinguished colleague Peter Coles manifestly thinks otherwise (Letters, September 24). The problems regarding pay and...

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  8. A local difficulty 2

    Which planet is Peter Coles, Nottingham University's professor of astrophysics, living on? He claims that the Association of University Teachers' greylisting of his institution is a deliberate...

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  9. Novel nonsense

    So, "Dull Birmingham pays £100,000 to make itself more interesting" (September 17) to the same consultants who market the low-grade TV channel Five? This is another case of overpaid administrators...

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  10. Vital vivisection

    Kathy Archibald and Gillian Russell (Letters, September 17 and 24) show gritty determination not to allow overwhelming scientific evidence, public opinion and the findings of the House of Lords'...

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  11. Out of the inner circle

    Chris Singleton's response to my article is extraordinary (Letters, September 24). He reduces my legitimate concern about the misuse of psychometric assessments to a personal pathological problem...

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  12. We're not revolting

    You correctly quoted me as saying that the 1994 Group favoured the dual-support system of research funding but was willing to look at alternatives to the research assessment exercise ("'Duped' v-cs...

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  13. Doctoral drive

    You rightly refer to the growing attention being paid to doctoral training at European level "Europe to streamline doctorate courses" (September 3). You did not, however, mention that much of the...

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  14. More kudos from Code

    Theology and cryptography are not the only potential beneficiaries of The Da Vinci Code 's popularity ("Code sets Holloway on Hollywood path", September 17). King's College London may not yet house...

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  15. Need the knowledge?

    Please move your "Working Knowledge" section (last week it appeared after the job advertisements) otherwise the 5 per cent of academics aged 35-40 who "don't know" whether they are actively seeking a...

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