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  1. Age is no barrier

    Like Dave Toke (Letters, July 29), we too wish to combat age discrimination in the research assessment exercise. Departments told us that previous RAE criteria discouraged the appointment of early-...

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  2. Beans and counters

    If the "RAE shifts focus from prestige journals" (July 22), where will it shift its focus to (Letters, July 29)? A journal's track record is correlated with its selectivity and peer-review standards...

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  3. Up, not down

    Hamilton College, which was recently involved in controversy after inviting Ward Churchill to speak on campus, has suffered no decline in applications, contrary to what your article said ("Ideals get...

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  4. Ring the changes 1

    Douglas B. Kell asks why Laurie Taylor designated Poppleton a city when it does not have a cathedral (Letters, July 29). The requirement that a town have an (Anglican) cathedral before being...

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  5. Ring the changes 2

    Douglas B. Kell says Poppleton's city status is in doubt as it has no cathedral, but neither has the City of Cambridge, so it's in good company. John Loader, City of Ely (complete with cathedral)

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  6. Voices of dissent

    The defence by vice-chancellor Richard Davies of his slash-and-burn policies at Swansea University ("Minor pain, major gain", July 29) is as flawed as the policies themselves. From the announcement...

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  7. Well in order

    Certainly give some students an antisocial behaviour order, it is no less than they deserve ("Students unruly? Give them an ASBO", July 22). Those who behave in an antisocial manner should be treated...

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  8. Gain by aiming high

    Your leader column is right to point to the advantages of higher education-based teacher education, ("Help teachers aim higher", July 29). While employment-only routes can have a limited role,...

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  9. Beyond words

    Gary Day writes that we need "a language revolution ... that revives the particularity of personhood", that "it is hard to harm anyone if you have seen them as a real person, rather than as a...

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  10. Poems from the academy

    The Dream Songs, by John Berryman About that "me". After a lecture once came up a lady asking to see me. "Of course. When would you like to?" Well, now, she said. "Yes, but I have a lunch- con- "...

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  11. A tale of two republics

    Tocqueville's brilliant analysis of the US may be outdated but, says Hugh Brogan, the historian still has a lot to teach us about liberty and equality 200 years after his birth It cannot be denied...

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  12. In a mere blink of time, pond life put the planet on ice

    It took an algae just a geological instant to create a snowball Earth. Anna Fazackerley explores the first biogenic climate disaster Cyanobacterium does not sound particularly threatening. At its...

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  13. Armed and dangerously provocative...

    Is science the new art, asks Sian Ede, as she reveals how artists are taking inspiration from the lab to find new ways to explore the world Contemporary scientists often talk about "beauty" and "...

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  14. Campus curiosities

    In the peace of the library of St John's College, Oxford, is a reminder of more chaotic times. A rude cannon ball, some 20cm across, is on display. It was supposedly fired from a Parliamentarian...

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  15. Buckle up, crash test in progress

    John O'Leary hopes that legendary German efficiency matches its ambition to turn higher education on its head Imagine introducing simultaneously many of the main reforms that have reshaped UK higher...

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