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  1. US lessons and Laura Spence 4

    Your article on the advantages of studying at US universities ("The lure of the broad horizon", August 6) stresses the appeal of a diverse curriculum. Many North American universities were modelled...

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  2. A sneer is no solution

    Frank Furedi's protestations about plagiarism would carry more weight if he were prepared to cite his university's policies as evidence (for or against) rather than jibing at distant institutions,...

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  3. Quelling QAA myths

    Alan Ryan uses his silly season column (Opinion, August 6) to rail against the Quality Assurance Agency and to express astonishment that one of his former students should wish to become its chairman...

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  4. High-handed attack

    The situation at Nottingham University is another example of high-handed management in place of cooperation, arrogance in place of compromise, and imposition in place of negotiation ("Local pay plan...

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  5. No bias in BA

    Your report "BA criticised over handling of £2m award" (July 30) was misleading and presented a distorted picture of the National Audit Office's findings on the award of the British Academy Centenary...

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  6. Make a stand

    George Martin (Soapbox, August 6) is to be congratulated for supporting the boycott of London Metropolitan, but boycotts are not the only answer. How can external examiners be asked to refuse to mark...

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  7. Hard look at hardship

    Your article on the abuse of hardship funds ("Hardship cash funds 'sprees'", July 23) was unbalanced and unfair. Most students who apply for hardship funds do so because of genuine financial...

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  8. Talk of a truce

    Perhaps I can take issue with Jack Cohen's statement that Hamas and Islamic Jihad oppose peace with Israel (Letters, July 30). Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi, Hamas' leader after the murder of Sheikh Ahmed...

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  9. Gloves off for 'thinking man's Michael Moore'

    The Bush Administration is a joke, guilty of 'crony capitalism' and 'world-class mendacity', but Paul Krugman is not laughing, says Stephen Phillips. Paul Krugman has a day off from his biweekly...

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  10. Can those who lit the flame for democracy carry it?

    As the Olympics kick off, Huw Richards looks at the birthplace of the modern state in the last of our series. The Greeks certainly had a word for it - indeed the word for it - since "democracy", like...

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  11. Undercover Laurie: Cap and gown, check. Wallet, check

    In the first of a series in which Laurie Taylor goes undercover at university events, he gatecrashes a degree ceremony and leaves with empty pockets. "Is this the queue for the 12.15?" Reading...

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  12. Starter for 10 that could finish off your chances

    Mandy Garner took a crack team of students and asked them to rise to the challenge of an admissions exam being roadtested at Cambridge University. Your starter for ten. A solid cube has 12 edges. If...

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  13. Travel tales of the cultural shepherd

    Adrian Mourby meets jack of all trades and tour leader Roderick Swanston as part of our intellectual tourism series. "I am a jack of all trades," says Roderick Swanston. "And Master of Arts. My job...

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