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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    " The number of professors has increased by 63 per cent in the past decade ", The Times Higher, April Ah, Lapping, there you are. Professor Lapping, I should say. Yes, indeed, vice-chancellor....

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  2. Alan Ryan

    There was a nice conjunction of stories last week. First, The Times Higher revealed that increasing numbers of institutions want to make their staff take psychometric tests to see if they have the...

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  3. Leader: New universities deserve more investment

    In most big cities in the UK it is easy to tell the new university from the old one. Just look for concrete instead of sandstone as you approach. But we show this week that exactly 15 years after the...

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  4. Research remains in our remit

    How could your leader of April have got it so wrong? It stated that Bournemouth University was "positioning itself as a teaching-only institution where scholarship and research take a distant second...

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  5. Respect admin staff 1

    I feel sorry for the reader who wrote in response to the report "staff 'swotted' by managers" and Frank Furedi's column (Letters, April 20). He must have been very unlucky in his experience of...

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  6. Respect admin staff 2

    Your unnamed contributor's assertion that "even the best university administrators are at best only fourth-raters" raised eyebrows here at the Association of University Administrators and kick-...

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  7. Respect admin staff 3

    I was staggered by your anonymous letter-writer's insensitive and inaccurate depiction of university administrative staff as "fourth-raters" to whom we ought to "stop being deferential". Without...

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  8. Old lows, new highs

    The article "Competition swells ranks of professors" (April ) asserts that there is "a danger of 'grade inflation' taking place so that the title could begin to lose its value as a mark of academic...

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  9. Time to say 'sorry'

    The letter from David Booth (April ) regarding job titles made me chuckle, having once been a fuel-injection engineer (aka petrol-pump attendant). Does he not realise that research administrators are...

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  10. Misinformed dangers

    In his article "Blind faith" (Features, April ), Anthony Glees berates my discipline for turning down "a government offer of £1.3 million to study how to combat terrorism by countering radicalisation...

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  11. Bovine balderdash

    Being a vegetarian is about taking the (easy) ethical choice that you don't require animals to be killed just so that you can eat them. Nigel Hunt's appalling letter (April ) suggests that it is OK...

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  12. The personality touch

    I was extremely interested to read the article on the advent of psychometric testing in higher education ("New tests will probe employee suitability", April 20). But my interest in its use comes from...

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  13. Israel deserves better

    Tony Greenstein's letter is evidence of the way people adhere religiously to one narrative without doing further research (Letters, April ). In addition to reading work by Ilan Pappe, Greenstein...

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  14. ICT: The revolution starts here

    Podcasts, blogs and wikis are making inroads into education and work - and academics want to be in the vanguard. Matt Baker reports They're whispering about her in the corridors of Whitehall. Her...

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  15. ICT: Information without frontiers

    The European Union has ambitions to make the Continent into a single knowledge zone in which information and people can move as freely as goods. Information technology is a vital part of this vision...

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