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  1. Dual threat to meeting the Atlantic challenge

    The fact that the UK's biggest international education competitor, the US, is directing more resources to boosting its offering to foreign students should act as a wake-up call to our politicians:...

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  2. Still in never-never land 1

    Asking students to accept increased debt as a future increment on income tax reflects the simplistic accounting that has led to the country's financial plight ("Willetts floats idea of separating...

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  3. Still in never-never land 2

    A tip for David Willetts. Any university with a wine cellar should have its public funding cut unless the stock is part of an investment experiment by its business school and not for imbibing. This...

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  4. Outsources of discontent

    The University Alliance is rehashing tired old arguments about saving money by outsourcing ("Lift tax-barrier to shared services, Alliance pleads", 10 June).The claim that contracting out services...

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  5. Religious literacy

    In view of the concern that Ofsted recently expressed about the standard of some schools' teaching of Christianity, we would like to draw attention to a further dimension to the problem: namely, such...

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  6. Accredit where it's due

    In 2003, the University of Exeter offered the UK's first undergraduate degree producing specialist renewable-energy engineers. Since then, it has embraced many of the elements John Turner emphasises...

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  7. Part-time 'Others'

    It is excellent to see that part-time study has finally made the headlines ("The Cinderella students" et al, 10 June). Despite being one of the foci of the UK's widening-participation agenda, the...

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  8. Hanging offence

    I was dismayed to read Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's miserable attack on Prince Andrew and Prince Harry for apparently not conforming to his academic expectations ("Duke of moral hazards", 3 June).Both...

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  9. Grant losers' space to vent

    How nice to be a grant winner, especially if you are one of those listed in Times Higher Education's weekly roll of honour. However, for those of us who have tried but never won, you might consider...

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  10. Rational explanation

    Tony Bruce of the Employers Pension Forum states with respect to the Universities Superannuation Scheme that "there is a need for a rational debate on the necessity for change" (Letters, 10 June). He...

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  11. Wishful thinking

    Your obituary of my former colleague Wynne Godley (10 June) failed to mention his sense of humour. He would have smiled at your description of him as the director of the department of planned, rather...

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  12. Spoof or serious?

    Thanks to Martin Mills for pointing out the idiocy of the Blog Confidential columns ("Affair comment", Letters, 3 June). I am constantly torn between thinking "this must be a joke" and "is this meant...

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  13. Tigers burning bright

    Asian higher education is on the rise in a success story that is shaking up the global order. Simon Marginson explains the importance of the Confucian model to the region's progress, while Philip...

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  14. A French revolutionary

    Although his reforms have attracted criticism, Richard Descoings, the head of Sciences Po, tells Atossa Araxia Abrahamian that he is determined to fashion a modern, outward-looking institution with a...

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  15. Mini-series

    In an austere climate for publishing, one innovation is booming: brief studies of single films or TV shows. Diane Negra considers the commercial and scholarly implications

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