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  1. Study here because you're worth it

    League tables impress few would-be students. Universities must be more imaginative in building brand identity, especially with top-up fees on the way, argue Jim Bodoh and Robert Mighall It is hard to...

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  2. I picnic lonely as a cloud...

    William Wordsworth may have invented picnicking as we know it, and in doing so, says Andrew Hubbell, helped to reunite a war-weary England Some time at the dawn of the 19th century, William and...

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  4. Playing field resistant to levelling 1

    Has anyone asked employers what they think of lowering admissions criteria for less-advantaged applicants ("Admissions war will be won only with imagination", THES , February 28)? Most students opt...

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  5. Playing field resistant to levelling 2

    Sir Geoffrey Holland urges universities to be more like superstores and let students sample services regardless of background ("Former v-c advocates superstore approach", THES , February 21). But...

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  6. Playing field resistant to levelling 3

    I left Quarry Bank Grammar School, in the mid-1960s one of the most sought-after schools in Liverpool, after O levels. I studied by myself over three years for A levels but never got far because of...

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  7. Playing field resistant to levelling 4

    The access debate assumes that virtually all higher-education learners are studying full time from age 18 to 21 on three-year honours degrees. What about lifelong learners? You have to use a...

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  8. Earn the respect

    Deborah Lee's article on student harassment of academics is a strange mish-mash of offensive generalisations mixed with non sequiturs ("Give me an A or you're dead", THES , February 28). For example...

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  9. Old block is not a chip

    Daniel Dennett proposes that freedom evolves ("An outrageous optimist finds freedom in the cells", THES , February 28). I agree: the evolution of the nervous system has given us brains that enable us...

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  10. Cheap tricks

    Phil Baty told a very sorry tale about an alleged waste of nearly £1.5 million of public money ("Virt-u dies with nothing to show but cheap porn", THES , February 28). But words such as "over-egg"...

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  11. Cardinal rules 1

    Dennis Hayes' claim that university commitment to both research and teaching is a myth will strike most academics as bizarre ("Intellectual fibre, not nuggets", THES , February 28). Universities have...

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  12. Cardinal rules 2

    Dennis Hayes claims that the sole purpose of the university is research and that "the only test of the success of university 'teaching' is whether it produces a new generation of creative and...

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  13. Pedigree partners 1

    Higher national diplomas are not being squeezed out ("Awards shake-up set to squeeze out HNDs", THES , February 28). By bringing the HND into the foundation degree framework, the UK has for the first...

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  14. Pedigree partners 2

    To widen participation in conservatoires, it is important to reach young people at an earlier age ("Hefce is urged to retune music", THES , February 21). Partnerships between conservatoires and other...

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  15. Aid for part-timers

    Richard Blackwell's article highlighting the need for universities to address the training and isolation of part-time lecturers is timely ("Bring this supply in from the cold", THES , February 28)....

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