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  1. Clear heads in the clouds

    Up in the Andes is a university worth emulating, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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  2. Leader: Measuring up the yardsticks

    Despite their imperfections and controversy, league tables still add more to our understanding of the sector than they subtract

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  3. John Sizer, 1938-2008

    From humble beginnings working in the trawling and frozen food industries while studying for accountancy exams at Grimsby College of Further Education, John Sizer went on to become chief executive of...

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  4. 'Pernicious tosh' of top-up fee defenders 1

    Gerard Kelly (Leader, 3 April) calls for a debate on top-up fees, but insists that they are "necessary". What about the graduate tax? If I were a student, I would rather know that I would pay tax at...

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  5. 'Pernicious tosh' of top-up fee defenders 2

    Your leader states that "it is right that those who personally benefit should pay when they are able and that those who do not should not be taxed for someone else's privilege". This is pernicious...

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  6. 'Pernicious tosh' of top up fee defenders 3

    In your efforts to justify charging higher fees, you point to "crumbling infrastructure" and "creaking campuses" in what you regard as the underfunded education system of Ireland. This misleading...

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  7. Still burdened by bias 1

    You point out that academia could soon be "a largely 'female' profession" but not at the highest levels ("Still second among equals", March).This is borne out by the example of the UK's medical...

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  8. Still burdened by bias 2

    In asking whether women miss out on promotion because of prejudice or because they are less committed, you quote figures from the Robert Drago and Carol L. Colbeck study on bias avoidance (strategies...

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  9. The art of the specialist

    After the shocking discovery and public admission (Letters, 6 March) that it is not possible to produce an algorithm for the economic impact of research, Philip Esler, chief executive of the Arts and...

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  10. Call yourself a doctor?

    The medical profession has a long tradition of misusing academic titles (Letters, March). After all, physicians style themselves Dr but most of them have two bachelors degrees, not a doctorate.People...

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  11. Beggaring belief

    So now Universities Secretary John Denham wants us to recreate 19th-century levels of educational philanthropy and civic engagement by asking the taxpayer to stump up £200 million to match alumni and...

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  12. A done deal

    One point needs clarification in the feature on the financial challenges facing higher education ("There may be trouble ahead", 3 April). The writer refers to "the uncertainty of the pay bid for 2008...

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  13. Statistical certainty

    It is not the case that institutions can choose not to supply the Higher Education Statistics Agency with data relating to academics excluded from their 2008 research assessment exercise submissions...

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  14. Off the rails

    "Network Rail is launching an MSc in project management" (Campus round-up, 3 April). Presumably the fees will help towards the fine for the project overrun at Christmas.Ian Lovecy, Bangor, Gwynedd.

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  15. Adrift in dark waters

    Academics aren't trained for it and often can't cope with it, yet many find themselves counselling students at risk of emotional breakdown and even suicide. Esther Oxford talks to lecturers who have...

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