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  1. Spelling out the real problems 3

    Students entering university today have a very different skill base compared with those of even ten years ago, and their social and educational experience is different from that of those who are...

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  2. Spelling out the real problems 4

    You miss out one key contribution that academe can make to wiping out the alleged escalation of illiteracy. English is the only major world language (apart from Chinese) where you often cannot work...

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  3. Spelling out the real problems 5

    Are the academics (and business leaders) who fulminate against the literacy skills of today's undergraduates the same ones who built their careers on peddling obscurantist drivel, aided by those...

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  4. Driven mad 1

    It is all very well for Andrew Oswald to state that "People design their lives the way they want" ("Got a space to think but no space for your car?", February 10). But many people cannot. I spent...

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  5. Driven mad 2

    In my daily newspaper: dramatic new evidence showing that our planet is becoming overheated because of global warming. And in The Times Higher : dramatic new evidence showing that academics have...

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  6. Driven mad 3

    The articles on commuting to work and the problems of parking charges overlap with a survey we are conducting of commuters during February. We would like to find out the secrets to a stress-free...

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  7. Oxford's own Edward?

    In "Rebels in push for vote on Oxford v-c" (February 3), Peter Oppenheimer says: "Many of us believe that (John) Hood thinks of the new governance structure as a lever by which he can increase his...

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  8. Peaceful free speech

    Irshad Manji's "Islam's no joking matter - and that's the problem" (February 10) misrepresents tolerant Islam. Islam, Judaism and Christianity co-existed peacefully for generations. Islam calls on...

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  9. Not complacent 1

    Once again The Times Higher appears to be objecting to the world-beating performance of UK universities in attracting international students ("Complacent staff could lose foreign enrolments",...

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  10. Not complacent 2

    I was quoted in the article on foreign students in such a way as to make me apparently dismissive of points raised in the rest of the article. My remark on training was a response to a suggestion...

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  11. Resign or be a traitor

    Now we learn that some chairs of sub-panels for the research assessment exercise don't like the new ground rules for early-career researchers ("Rules hurt new blood, say liberal arts staff", February...

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  12. Autonomous refusal

    The Quality Assurance Agency "expects the University (of London) to produce an action plan" ("QAA findings on London 'perverse'", February 3). What will happen if in exercising its academic autonomy...

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  13. Oases with a loud tick, tick ringing through the air

    Half of the world's most densely populated cities are located in areas vulnerable to earth-quakes - and there is a very good reason why. James Jackson explains It has already been a bad century for...

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  14. The elusive past of je ne sais quoi

    The rise to fame of a well- worn phrase illuminates writers' use of language, says Richard Scholar Modern linguists have long had, I suspect, a reflexive turn to their thinking. It may be that the...

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  15. People's histories lost in the academy

    Grassroots ethnic minority groupsare striving to tell the story of theircommunities, but the politics of heritage is making the task difficult, says Sara Wajid Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka and Hanif...

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