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  1. Oxford fumes at siting of statue

    A bitter row has broken out at Oxford University over a decision to site a 10ft high 18th-century statue in a much loved medieval room, writes Melanie Newman. A member of the Department for Culture,...

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  2. More debate needed on marking 1

    The fact that the Burgess committee has had so much difficulty in achieving consensus regarding a different classification system and now wants to do away with it altogether makes one wonder why the...

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  3. More debate needed on marking 2

    Sue Bloxham does well to remind us that summative assessment procedures are unreliable. This gets glossed over by the cryptic manner in which assessment is reported. If we ask for a vehicle report on...

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  4. Bristol not a censor

    Your freedom-of-speech leader ("We must guard the right to say the unthinkable", October 26) swept Bristol University up in tut-tutting at institutions that did not, in the end, host a lecture by...

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  5. Flight of fancy

    You recently said that Southampton's vice-chancellor, Bill Wakeham, is making a "small sacrifice" by driving an eco-friendly car around campus rather than his own Porsche ("Southampton grows greener...

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  6. Load of bull

    Might I suggest to The Times Higher and its readers that the animal that is featured prominently in the picture illustrating the feature "The child departs" (October 19) is clearly a bull, as might...

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  7. Who does what? 1

    "Only academics with direct responsibility for teaching and research (aka deans) should actually rule," says Terence Kealey ("Emmanuel lights the way on self-governance", October 19). Why did I think...

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  8. Who does what? 2

    Terence Kealey refers to administrative staff as "college servants". How very medieval. At least at Birkbeck the academics and administrators work in partnership to ensure that good governance is...

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  9. Who cried wolf?

    I was saddened to read letters attacking Joanna Bourke's column ("Men, too, must work to take back the night", October 19). J. Green's letter contains ill-informed comments. Reforms to rape laws are...

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  10. Faith in hypotheses

    If the report on governance in church universities and colleges had suggested that those institutions could or should behave in the way described in The Times Higher ("Call to spell out Christian...

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  11. Walk it like you talk it

    Sean Wallis (Letters, October 26) condemns the Government's attempts to involve universities in its academies project. So why doesn't he resign from University College London, an institution that is...

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  12. Unwilling accomplice

    On a visit to my local Marks & Spencer, I had to walk past a picket by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, one that singled out this store in its campaign against "Israeli apartheid". The PSC's...

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  13. Sutton and Oxford 1

    Alan Ryan misinterprets a number of key findings of Sutton Trust research (Opinion, 26 October). A report by the trust did identify 3,000 state school students who each year have the grades to enter...

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  14. Sutton and Oxford 2

    One of the occupational hazards of being a politician is that one is frequently accused of holding opinions one has never expressed. It does not feel any better to be accused by an eminent academic...

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  15. Sutton and Oxford 3

    Contrary to your summary of my views, I have never "defended" Oxbridge admissions ("Oxbridge targets 'cannot be met': Ryan", October 26). Tutors spend immense amounts of time and effort making fine...

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