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  1. Letter: Why we ploughed a new furrow (1)

    Agricultural colleges have diversified their curriculums to meet the changing needs of the countryside. Indeed, we refer to ourselves as land-based colleges to denote the change ("Merger plan is no...

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  2. Letter: Why we ploughed a new furrow (2)

    The farming industry was already suffering low incomes from BSE before the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Agricultural colleges have mostly responded positively to such changes in the rural economy....

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  3. Letter: Vacillating v-cs (1)

    You and your correspondents are misguided in attacking Universities UK for not choosing one of the four funding options in the Taylor report. If this government can ignore the preferred option of its...

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  4. Letter: Vacillating v-cs (2)

    It beggars belief to read that once again the vice-chancellors have ducked their responsibility to champion the cause of the universities and not least the need for a better basis of funding. Having...

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  5. Leader: Effective sector comes at a cost

    The United Kingdom is better than many industrialised countries at turning university entrants into graduates. The select committee report on student retention finds that only Japan does better. But...

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  6. Leader: Those who pay the bill want to see the product

    Frank Furedi's surprise at the growing role of parents in higher education will be shared by many in universities whose own parents' job in their college days was to deliver and collect them at the...

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  8. That son of a bitch who happened to be a genius

    With the Academy Awards season upon us once again, Mamoun Hassan pays tribute to John Ford, America's greatest director. "You cannot contradict your time too flatly and be influential. That is...

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  12. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a former prisoner and exile: "At 5am, as usual, reveille was sounded - a hammer banged against a rail...

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