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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Save our staff

    No one reading your article "Bullying made me feel suicidal" (Soapbox, November 5) can have failed to be moved by the plight of the writer whom you described as "a once fulfilled academic". That a...

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  13. 'A luminous critical and synthetic intelligence'

    Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at Derrida's legacy with thoughts on how he transformed the customs and practices of a discipline A vital measure of the influence of a thinker on a...

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  14. Is insurrection the road to resurrection?

    French cafes used to buzz with the sound of heated debate, yet many of today's travailleurs intellectuels feel they are being given the cold shoulder. Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at...

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