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  1. Laurie Taylor column

    Lapping speaking. Morning, Lapping. Targett here. Jamie Targett. Head of corporate development. Just giving you a quick bell about your draft RAE submission. Will it do? Well, it's definitely in the...

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  2. Leader: Unfortunate news measured on an uneven yardstick

    It would be a mistake to conclude, as some in the media have already done, that English degrees are not only more expensive than their overseas equivalents but also less rigorous. The Higher...

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  3. Time to privilege talent over luck 1

    Yet another study, this time by the Sutton Trust, demonstrating that top universities tend to select students from elite (and mainly private) schools ("Elite few still fill top universities",...

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  4. Time to privilege talent over luck 2

    Sir Peter Lampl calls it a "sad waste of talent" that many straight-A state educated students tend not to enter Oxbridge and other traditional universities. What patronising nonsense. Why can't he...

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  5. Time to privilege talent over luck 3

    The reason some Oxford colleges admit a higher proportion of state-school students than others is that a higher proportion of their applicants come from state schools. This often reflects the...

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  6. Time to privilege talent over luck 4

    We are concerned that your coverage of the Sutton Trust report will discourage the very students that we are keen to encourage to apply. We are confident that students with the right subject mix of A...

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  7. Time to privilege talent over luck 5

    This is the first time that a British journal dedicated to higher education has dared to draw attention to the unfairness of allowing private tuition for students ("Private tuition booms", September...

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  8. Lost on the paper trail

    Tim Birkhead superbly describes the Kafkaesque bureaucracy under which academics toil in our universities today and the open contempt with which management routinely treats us ("Blank faces and...

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  9. Imbalanced coverage

    I am conducting research into the way children are cared for in hospitals. My questionnaire contains innocuous questions such as, "Do you think parents should be involved in decision-making about...

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  10. Reasoned defence

    It is unclear whether recent reports of "peer censorship" amount to anything more than "peer criticism", itself an exercise of academic freedom ("Peer pressure curbs language", September 7). Even...

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  11. UCU fees don't add up

    The time has come to pay University and College Union subscriptions for 2007 08. My subscription request outlines, without explanation, different rates for former Association of University Teachers...

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  12. The ring of truth

    I was intrigued by the chastity ring inscribed with "THES" ("Mystique of the virgin", September 21). I assume this is because you represent untainted purity, not impenetrability. Alan Woodley...

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  13. Grant defence

    Christian Fleck faults the European Research Council on many counts, the main one being the great number of applications and the small ratio of success ("Grant contest proves ill-conceived lottery",...

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  14. One we nicked earlier

    Ian Marshall suggests that lecturers should avoid "wasting potential research time" by downloading lectures from the internet and reading them out ("It is time we tamed the tyranny of technology",...

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  15. Voice of the Other America

    Forty years after his death, American protest singer Woody Guthrie still fascinates. Will Kaufman , an academic who doubles as a Guthrie tribute artist, offers his own personal take, while Lee...

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