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  1. Pedantic points

    Is there no way of making jokes without bringing pedants out of the woodwork (Letters, 17 January)? The University of Sussex was known as "Brighton" for 20 years before Sir David Watson's outfit took...

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  2. Dentistry in the chair

    In the week that we learnt of the worsening dentistry crisis in the National Health Service, the bestselling academic books in Sheffield were Integrated Dental Treatment Planning: A Case-Based...

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  3. Learning, not school

    It was disappointing that Alan Ryan wrote that "we propose to keep everyone at school until they are 18" ("Requiem for lost optimism", 10 January).There is no such proposal. There is a proposal to...

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  4. He is Spartacus

    How many referees does it take to vouch adequately for a job applicant?One job advertised in Times Higher Education (Appointments, 17 February) requires six referees for an applicant at professorial...

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  5. The road from Athens

    It is a fair point that university libraries may be falling behind developments on the internet as researchers increasingly make use of new research behaviours ("Researchers' web use could make...

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  6. View from the top

    Several recent issues have covered the topic of business-facing universities, and last week was no exception ("Diversity challenge", 17 January). One indicator of how successful higher education...

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  7. Take more than a bite

    Mao Zedong had a far better grasp of education than Zac Smartboy ("The Poppletonian", 17 February). Smartboy claims that "one doesn't need to eat the whole of an apple or a banana or a peach to...

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  8. Unpalatable truths

    The university exam system faces real problems. Academics are forced to mark too much too quickly. Coursework is contaminated with plagiarism. Fine-grain discrimination is impossible and mistakes are...

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  9. Hollywood study

    I use Hollywood films to give my language-acquisition students the opportunity to practise critical consumption. This hasn't always gone as planned.Some films get it right. Krakozhian-speaking Viktor...

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  10. Homogenous diversity

    Sometimes I even irritate myself in my demand for an answer to the question "where are the women?" when I see an article that offers the opinions of a string of academics.It's the complaint my...

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  11. Men in the majority

    Interesting that the gender composition of your editorial board reflects that of the letters page. This week (10 January), not unusually, all male - more than your appointments news (6/11 female)....

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  12. When the face doesn't fit ..

    Women who brave the traditional male bastions of science, engineering and technology must still confront both gender stereotyping and old-boy exclusion. Esther Oxford reports.

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  13. Strategic resources

    Governors perform an important and complex function in higher education, but what exactly do they do and what skills can they bring to the role? Hannah Fearn investigates.

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  14. Losing our religion?

    If the Church of England has a somewhat accidental place within British life, the same might be said about theology within British universities. Matthew Reisz reports.

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  15. Reaching out but still falling short

    The Office for Fair Access this week revealed for the first time how much of their top-up fee income universities are spending on support for Britain's neediest students. Hannah Fearn and John Gill...

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