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  1. Leader: One voice is loudest

    One side-effect of the debate over research assessment is to add to the turbulence surrounding the various institutional groupings. Just as Universities UK has found it difficult to represent a set...

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  2. A degree of scandal and shame 1

    Your headline "Students waved through final lap" (April 14) is an apposite summary of the scandalous proposals voted through by Keele University's senate in its misguided response to action short of...

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  3. A degree of scandal and shame 2

    So Keele University is trying to graduate students with incomplete assessments. More than 40 years ago H. D. F. Kitto, professor of classics at Bristol University, proposed the following system for...

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  4. Why I'm for metrics

    I read with interest vice-chancellors' views on the research assessment exercise's future ("V-cs add to RAE clamour", April 7). But surely it would be of interest to hear from those who will be...

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  5. As easy as ABC?

    I sympathise with June Purvis who finds a "white, male, traditional and Eurocentric bias" in the value placed on history journals in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (Letters, April 21...

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  6. Give us a break 1

    I was amused to read that the possible introduction of two-year degrees could "herald the end of the long academic summer holidays" ("Long summer break may be cut short by two-year degree plan",...

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  7. Give us a break 2

    The proposed two-year degree being touted by the Minister for Higher Education is seen as a solution to student debt. Why not a one-year degree? Even less debt to pay off. Better still, a degree on...

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  8. Money or nothing?

    Jocelyn Prudence says that I am as rich as Croesus. Sally Hunt likens me to a church mouse with an unrectified anomaly (Features, April 14). Hunt tells me that there are untold billions available for...

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  9. No surrogates

    In response to the item about the Information Systems Journal 's rejection of a paper that used "students as surrogates for real people" (Peep's Diary, April 7), the ISJ publishes high-quality,...

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  10. Better treatment

    As a paranoid schizophrenic who had a major hallucina-tory breakdown in 1999, I thank my lucky stars that I was not treated by a "critical psychiatrist" such as Duncan Double (Features, April 21)....

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  11. A revolting trip?

    I note that the recent French protests are due to the revolting psyche of the French (Features, April 21). One presumes then that the UK lecturers' action is the result of Eurostar trips by...

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  12. Onward Darwin's soldiers

    As creationist John Mackay tours the UK, Stephen Phillips charts the evolutionists' campaign of resistance. John Mackay has toured the UK several times to preach his creationist view of the world. He...

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  14. Doorstops are dead, long live the web

    Harriet Swain finds extras are no longer optional for business books. If your text doesn't come with DVDs, CDs and podcasts, it won't cut it in the student market. If you know anything about business...

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  15. Irreverent approach pays off

    Many are won over by Freakonomics' charms, including Huw Richards, who meets the duo behind the phenomenon. One measure of the success of Freakonomics , an original take on economics by journalist...

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