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  1. These metrics don't measure up 2

    For some time, my personal view has been that both universities and the UK need to move on from the research assessment exercise to a more dynamic research funding system. Contrary to your report's...

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  2. These metrics don't measure up 3

    Last week's Department for Education and Skills consultation document presents five models, all of which are based on external research income and none on the main alternative, bibliographic data....

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  3. These metrics don't measure up 4

    The Higher Education Funding Council for England must be trying to discredit metrics by its absurd proposal to use funding - an input measure - instead of the research assessment exercise. This is...

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  4. Disappointing deal 1

    "University staff to vote overwhelmingly for deal". This is not as good a story as the one you reported ("Poll predicts close pay vote", June 16), but it is the real story. If my institution is...

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  5. Disappointing deal 2

    During the bitter dispute between staff and university management it became increasingly obvious that vice-chancellors were prepared to sacrifice professional standards and undermine academic values...

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  6. Disappointing deal 3

    The pay offer is deeply disappointing. Irrespective of the outcome of the pay ballot, the union needs to initiate an open discussion on strategies to further our claim whenever pay negotiations...

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  7. Disappointing deal 4

    Andrew Todd tells us that the recent pay offer gives a "cash increase" of 3.52 per cent, 3.77 per cent and 2.08 per cent over three years (Letters, June 16). These figures (derived from the...

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  8. Miss out on minorities 1

    Black and minority ethnic staff will not be surprised by the case of Harinder Bahra ("Brunel pays out to settle race row", June 16). It is no secret that universities have been unwilling to address...

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  9. Miss out on minorities 2

    Last week's article on the Brunel race case included repeated references to Southampton Solent Univer-sity. The university was neither a party to the tribunal proceedings referred to in the article,...

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  10. The Paine of change

    Christopher Hitchens makes a good case for paying more attention to the ideas of Tom Paine today than we do (Opinion, June 16), but his view of the great democratic revolutionary is abstract. Paine's...

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  11. Pot and kettle

    There is a delicious irony that The Times Higher should have chosen Peter Cole, head of Sheffield University's journalism department and the former deputy editor of The Guardian , to pontificate on...

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  12. Just the job?

    It is a pity that Sally Feldman did not have space in her opinion piece to name the dean she has in mind to improve industrial relations in the sector (June 9). If it were not so preposterous we...

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  13. Conjurers turn tricks on wizards' coat-tails

    Can bravura literary criticism overshadow its subject and distort instead of enlighten? Derek Attridge examines the pitfalls of close reading We often talk of a powerful literary work, and sometimes...

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  15. More than just a way into the reel thing

    Are aspiring film-makers better off learning their craft in class or on set making tea? As London Film School reaches 50, Anna Thomson catches up with alumni I've lost count of the number of flights...

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