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  1. Civic pride versus damned statistics 3

    Working in the urban squalor of a university rated 119th, I can only envy those more fortunate colleagues, located mainly in the south of England, who wake up to the sound of larks ascending and the...

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  2. Civic pride versus damned statistics 4

    The quality-of-life table was an unsubtle version of the old adage that it's grim up north. I suggest that the categories are reorganised so that the discovery of the obvious is not so blatant next...

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  3. Civic pride versus damned statistics 5

    Do academics in Bucks New University, the University of Surrey and Royal Holloway really have a better quality of life than those in Manchester, Sheffield, Oxford and Cambridge? Lots of "goodies" in...

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  4. Civic pride versus damned statistics 6

    Thanks for cheering me up. I haven't laughed so much in ages. Bringing April Fool's Day forward was a great idea. I guess those fortunate people who work at the universities of Surrey and Winchester...

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  5. It adds up to exaggeration

    Your coverage of our plans to increase the impact of our investments is misleading ("RCUK abandons impact formula"; "What price knowledge?", 6 March). We are interested in retrospectively...

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  6. Named and ashamed

    I have never had the guts to study onomastics (Letters, 28 February).John Craven, Vice-chancellor, University of Portsmouth.

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  7. Time to join the multitudes

    There is obviously some confusion at Brunel. ("Controller preparing the platform to elevate Brunel", 28 February). Brunel did not resign from the former Coalition of Modern Universities. It was never...

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  8. Pedagogic chain reaction

    What a pleasant surprise to find my chemistry-focused paper in a more general article ("Teacher-centred teaching", 28 February). There was an excellent summary of my key point - that lecturers'...

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  9. Colonial education

    In reference to the "appalling American convention of following a colon by a capital letter" (Letters, 6 March) and at the risk of perpetuating a rather tiresome argument, may I say that I have never...

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  10. What's behind the label

    Robert Mighall confuses a university's reputation with its "brand" ("The substance behind the image", 6 March). It's not surprising that those with a living to make in this area are untroubled by...

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  11. Support for Oxford changes

    As the head of one of the 31 Oxford colleges in favour of the proposed new model for allocating resources, I was very surprised to see that your coverage included no comment at all from those who...

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  12. Acronymous debate

    David Punter's suggestion that certain disciplines be grouped together as SSSMART (Letters, 6 March) does not go far enough. It seems obvious that to reflect accurately the situation, statistics,...

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  13. cash, money, pay, rich

    How much are you worth?

    Academic salaries have increased by 12.6% in two years, but can the rises be sustained? Market differences are already beginning to show, with significant variations in pay between universities just...

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  14. Trading partners

    To build collaborative links with India, UK institutions must avoid treating the country as a cash cow, discovers Esther Oxford

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  15. 13 March 2008

    Never had it so good? - A survey of academic pay