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  1. Steely veteran with a cold eye on bottom line

    Top-up fees, debt and moves to reform governance make for turbulent times at Cambridge, so how will Alison Richard, its first female vice-chancellor, weather the storm? Walter Ellis expects heads to...

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  2. Civil rights sacrificed on altar of security

    Real and imagined terrorist threats are driving governments to scrap basic freedoms in a fight against a virtual enemy, say Conor Gearty and Gerd Oberleitner How fragile is our commitment to what we...

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  3. Degrees are not their business 1

    If it is true that private companies are to be given degree-awarding powers so as to promote competition in higher education ("Go-ahead for corporate degrees", THES , November 29), then three issues...

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  4. Degrees are not their business 2

    I see that prominent free-marketeer James Tooley is congratulating new Labour for "thinking the unthinkable" with plans to, in effect, privatise the authority to award degrees. One thing puzzles me...

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  5. Proud and pumped up

    As someone who teaches and researches in pure biochemistry and sports and exercise science, I am used to my work in the latter area being trivialised by my more traditional colleagues. Still, now...

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  6. Truth with a capital T

    As is shown by Ray Monk's review of Bernard Williams's Truth and Truthfulness ("Up against a tide of denial", THES , November 29), academic philosophers are once again busy fabricating a muddle about...

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  7. Equality costs

    The Greenfield report on getting more women into science ( THES , November 29) makes a number of costly recommendations. Laudable though they would be in a well-funded system, as things stand they...

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  8. Parental wealth

    Your leader "Students must be convinced of a degree's value" ( THES , November 29) gets straight to the heart of the matter: "parental income, rather than graduate prospects, determines whether and...

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  9. Regional clarification

    Your report on Partnerships for Progression (P4P) ("Meet target or lose cash, report warns", THES , November 29) suggested that the Higher Education Funding Council for England would withdraw funds...

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  10. Why Cambridge?

    The article "Troubled Commonwealth Institute eyes Cambridge alliance" ( THES , November 22) pinpointed several fears about the proposal. What will happen to the institute's mandate to promote...

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  11. Miscellaneous fees

    I am sure that Graham Gibbs's daughters' experiences of poor teaching in "research-led" departments are not universal, but I would be amazed if they were unique ("Research strategy limits teaching of...

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  12. Why Israel?

    Can we now move beyond the recent sterile exchanges about the treatment of Israeli academics and take a look at what is implied by any boycott of any academic? And could we also ask ourselves what we...

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  13. Insular Britons

    According to the European Student Survey 2002, "almost two-thirds of British students lack the essential skills and attitudes to compete for top graduate jobs across Europe" ( THES , 29 November)....

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  14. Four pity's sake

    I was aghast at last week's Don's Diary. So it took mathematicians 125 to prove that we need four colours to colour all mugs and that they are still working on a non-computer solution. This really is...

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