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  1. Leader: Another bite at an old chestnut

    At least once a decade, the old chestnut of two-year degrees is disinterred - and, until now at least, subsequently reburied. It happened in the 1970s during Margaret Thatcher's stewardship of...

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    #Opinion

  2. Leader: Now that's initiative

    The second phase of the Prime Minister's Initiative on overseas students, announced this week, may be more than the sum of its somewhat insubstantial parts. Packing together a variety of programmes,...

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    #Opinion

  3. Quality is about more than cash 1

    In the discussions on the Treasury's bombshell proposal to replace the research assessment exercise with a metrics-driven procedure, a number of important issues have been overlooked (News, April 7,...

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  4. Quality is about more than cash 2

    Suggestions that the 2008 research assessment exercise may be altered or replaced are ludicrous. To do so would offer endless opportunities for legal challenge about outcomes, because of procedural...

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  5. Quality is about more than cash 3

    Is there a shred of reliable empirical evidence that demonstrates that the research assessment exercise has achieved anything other than wasting large amounts of time and money (Opinion, April 14)?...

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  6. Pay up and speak up 1

    Your coverage of the pay dispute ("Local deals on cards as v-cs round on Ucea" and "Who will break first in the battle of the giants?", April 14) invites three comments. First, the employers should...

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  7. Pay up and speak up 2

    It is disappointing that in your overview of the pay dispute the viewpoint of the support staff unions, which represent more than half of all staff in higher education, is ignored. Unison, TGWU,...

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  8. Index for the elite 1

    The attempt by the European Science Foundation to build a European Reference Index for the Humanities is an elitist, secretive process ("Journal index fuels RAE fears", April 7). The contention that...

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  9. Index for the elite 2

    Your article "Journal index fuels RAE fears" (April 7) contains a number of inaccuracies. The article refers to a "Europe-wide citation index", but the European Reference Index for the Humanities is...

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  10. Prize idea

    Marcus du Sautoy says, rightly, that money is a great way to get kids' eyes to light up and mentions two prizes available to mathematicians (Opinion, April 14). Your Sustainability supplement (April...

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  11. Anatomy of a joke

    Laurie Taylor missed the alphabetical imperative reference to aardvarks when discussing the very welcome degree course in comedy writing and performance (April 14). An aardvark, an ayatollah and an...

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  12. A service not a cheat 1

    Some academics apparently regard the use of professional proofreading services by students as "spoon-feeding gone mad" or "cheating" or "passing off others' work as your own", ("Fluency can be all...

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  13. A service not a cheat 2

    Yvonne Turner's letter (April 14) is worrying. It is one thing to acknowledge that lecturers "tend to stereotype second-language speaking students as poorer than those who are fluent". It is quite...

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  14. Turbulent legacy of noose and guillotine

    Robert Tombs delves into the French psyche to find why the country's complaints so often turn into public disorder. The world now knows about France's unemployment problems. Prime Minister Dominique...

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