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  2. Masters in the art of reinvention

    The article "Artistic licence" (31 July) implies it is only recent digital developments that are "forcing" art and design courses to reinvent themselves. British art schools have constantly...

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  3. Take me to your problem

    It has become fashionable, in higher education as elsewhere, to complain about people's "leadership" when something is going on that you don't like. Thus, Paul Ramsden at the Higher Education Academy...

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  4. Straightening the chair

    I was disappointed to note that it could be inferred from your magazine that a black member of our staff, Udy Archibong, was appointed to a chair in 2004 as some form of reward for withdrawing a...

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  5. Hang on a nanosecond!

    We would like to make it clear that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is not "closing an avenue of study" in, or "declining to fund", certain areas of nanotechnology research ("...

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  6. Bad vibrations

    In these days of marketing and competition for students, it is inevitable that Britain's universities will produce glossy material and state-of-the-art websites in the attempt to steal a march on...

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  7. Purpose as well as privilege 1

    Mary Evans's opinion piece about the politics of education ("Stranger than fiction: Harry Potter and the Order of the Entitled", 31 July) makes a few worthwhile points on the failure of new Labour's...

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  8. Purpose as well as privilege 2

    Higher education still displays the English class system red in tooth and claw more dramatically than any other sector of employment. All difference must magically be transformed into hierarchy. The...

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  9. The slipery slope 1

    Ken Smith proposes that "'we simply give everyone a break and accept these variant spellings" ("Just spell it like it is", 7 August). This sounds like an excellent response to feeling "fed up with...

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  10. The slipery slope 2

    So Ken Smith thinks we should accept spelling errors. He is mistaken - a word that is, curiously, an anagram of his own name. Well, not quite; but it is only one letter out, so presumably it does not...

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  11. Targets and own goals

    I see that a new survey of young academics shows that they still see "self-fulfilment" as a key career aim ("Young academics striving to fit in reveal high anxiety", 7 August). This underlines that...

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  12. Chemical bonding in the pool

    Polly Arnold is happy to have traded MIT's 24-hour stress for Scottish teamwork. Olga Wojtas reports

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  15. Relaxation therapy to ease stress of clearing

    Check out our guide to Clearing 2015 University staff are pulling out all the stops this week to help prospective students secure a place at university - staying up all night to man telephone lines,...

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