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  1. Leader: Patience is a virtue

    David Eastwood gives the optimistic view of the Tomlinson report on 14-to-19 education, as befits a member of the committee, and many in higher education will give the report a similarly fair wind....

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  2. Praise due, in our assessment

    Although it is common outside education to encounter a view that assessment must mean examinations, it is surprising and disturbing to find such a misunderstanding within your pages. Your report last...

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  3. Dismayed at Roberts 1

    We - University College London graduate tutors across a wide range of disciplines - are dismayed at the manner in which precious resources are to be wasted in providing generic skills training, as...

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  4. Dismayed at Roberts 2

    So the new PhD code will involve the Higher Education Funding Council for England in a new inspection regime that will be "paper based, with follow-up visits" (News, October 15) . Then there is the...

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  5. Contractual errors

    Your article "Contract staff laid off in preparation for EU law" (October 8) misquotes me. I do not believe there is a "culture of casualisation" in higher education. There will be a dramatic...

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  6. E-value of journals

    Loughborough University's report on the increased costs of journals will cause publishers to think further on their pricing policies ("Journal costs soar by up to 94 per cent", October 15). Sage is...

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  7. Linguistic query

    Please tell Tim Connell, who asks "Did a Captain Gorse really write a Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in the 18th century?" that it was Francis Grose who wrote a Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar...

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  8. Charity fills a gap 1

    I want to clear up certain inaccuracies about Uniaid. It is not "a charitable offshoot of Unite" (Letters, October 15) any more than it is a subsidiary of its many other supporters moved by the...

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  9. Charity fills a gap 2

    Having just been involved in the Uniaid bursary scheme launch at the House of Lords, I find it hard to believe that anyone can be opposed to the work Uniaid is doing. Hearing the students' moving...

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  10. Wanted: flatterer

    I note Otley College's ad for a deputy principal seeks someone to "compliment the Senior Management Team" (Jobs, October 1). How refreshing that the need for an uncritical sycophant is so plainly...

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  11. Transparent sexism

    A number of universities seem blissfully unaware that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has issued a code of practice for submissions for the 2008 research assessment exercise that...

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  12. Don't blame us

    Your report on the limited confidence of the Quality Assurance Agency in Anglia Polytechnic University's management standards contained a reference to partner colleges "dotted around East Anglia" (...

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  13. Derrida clarification

    You report with meticulous accuracy my observations on Jacques Derrida, the "gnomic thinker" (October 15). Only on reading them in print do I realise that their import might be misinterpreted....

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  14. Wit's not at an end

    Are the replies to Gary Day's column proof of a world so stultified as to lack the wit to spot irony and satire (Letters, October 15)? As one sad "old fart" of an academic to another, thanks Gary! In...

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  15. Access all areas

    Students’ ever-rising demand for links to university networks means that institutions cannot stop investing in IT. George Cole reports Walk into any lecture in a British university today and you will...

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