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  1. Clever conceit won't protect free speech

    The group Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) confuses freedom of speech with academic freedom, and thus undermines both ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May).It claims...

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  2. Losing balance

    In your story on the student disruption of a conference advocating closer ties between universities and industry ("Protesters disrupt business-link conference", 14 May), you first reported the...

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  3. Degrees of scrutiny

    You report the possible acquisition of BPP by the Apollo Group ("For-profit growth predicted if US giant buys UK's BPP", 14 May). If this happens, the legal responsibility for BPP's degree awards...

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  4. Parental requiem

    Alec Ryrie seems to imply in his (absolutely appropriate) commendation of Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars ("The Canon", 7 May) that the book is "dedicated to God himself". I have no idea...

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  5. Different wavelengths

    I am surely not alone in being puzzled by the "Top journals in computer science" (Research intelligence, 14 May). By far the strangest inclusion was the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation...

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  6. Dole it out to poor students

    I always thought that the reason UK students pay lower fees than overseas ones is that educating British citizens helps the domestic economy, whereas foreign students take the benefits back home (...

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  7. Don't fear open access

    Kathryn Sutherland appears to fundamentally misunderstand the goals and methods of the open-access movement ("Those who disseminate ideas must acknowledge the routes they travel", 30 April).Her...

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  8. Glorious structures or grey?

    Adrian Furnham ("The petty meanness is bitterly recalled, but the kindness is repaid", 14 May) refers to university prospectuses showing off semi-attractive buildings and ignoring the "Stalinist...

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  9. QMU's drama, no crisis

    Queen Margaret University is not the subject of a Quality Assurance Agency investigation ("Quality concerns take centre stage as staff quit over dramatic changes", 14 May). The validation process for...

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  10. Not all black on numbers

    Your report "Overseas numbers plummet" (News, 30 April) and the New Zealand Herald story on which it is based are wrong to suggest that New Zealand's universities are "losing" foreign students. A few...

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  11. Persecution (is) complex

    The introduction of a managerialist culture has coincided with a rise in accusations of bullying. But is there really more mistreatment, or are academics accustomed to autonomy overreacting to firm...

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  12. A kind of intellectual cancer

    Good and powerful ideas have a tendency to spread wildly and destructively. Alec Ryrie ponders the many ways Darwinism has been used and abused and feels just a bit queasy

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  15. 21 May 2009

    Bullying - Professional pressures, unfair tactics and shattered lives