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  1. Vision from above is clouded 2

    So HR and university heads complain about the "cloud cover" between them and middle management and say top management is visionary but middle managers do not find it easy to lead. As very little...

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  2. Vision from above is clouded 3

    The Higher Education Policy Institute "slammed" middle managers because their "loyalties often lie primarily with their subject or their teams". Am I missing something? Nigel Morris Lincoln University

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  3. Quota hits top schools

    It is not only privately educated students who will be affected by the quotas imposed by the London School of Economics ("LSE sets secret state quota", March 11). This policy will have an adverse...

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  4. Racism clarification

    I am writing to correct the impression given in the article "Pay plan 'will stifle' academic freedom" (March 11) that the Oxford University's Student Union is accusing Auckland University of having a...

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  5. Open the archives

    While it is interesting that Laurie Taylor can report on Dr Piercemüller's use of the Freedom of Information Act to uncover the reasons for the rejection of his research applications (March 11),...

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  6. Sounds of good sense

    Those for whom English is an additional language outnumber those for whom it is a first language by about three to one worldwide ("Baffled by ill-spoken English", March 11). On graduating, many of...

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  7. Parental pressures

    After reading Jill Brookes' rant against university open days (Letters, March 4), I suggest that she spends less time fretting over "basic assumptions about parents of potential students" (not the...

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  8. Why so angry?

    It would be unfair to apply academic standards of criticism to a director of finance's musings, but Philip Harding should be able to write an unambiguous letter (March 11). Is he unhappy that the...

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  9. Part-time possibility

    Your coverage of the Rees review presented a useful summary of the six options for funding higher education in Wales ("Welsh may pay less in top-ups", March 4). But it was inaccurate in one...

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  10. Not racist - a realist

    In response to Timothy Insoll's letter last week (itself a response to my article on the need for black studies in the UK), let me state that black studies is a subject for study, a discipline, and...

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  11. Freedom fighters

    Stephen Court raises interesting questions on academic freedom ("Why I think universities must fight harder for academic freedom", March 4). Of course, the Government has a central role to play, but...

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  12. No concern in circular

    You say that "inspectors are so concerned over the rush to exploit the world's biggest higher education market that they have announced plans for a review of the standard of UK degree courses offered...

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  13. Conferences 18 March 2005 index page

      Conferences, Issue No. 2 Published in The Times Higher on 18 March 2005   Leader   'Why is the conference market still expanding even in the cash-strapped world of universities' Bad trip?  ...

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  14. Leader

    In these days of websites, email and videoconferencing, it is tempting to ask, as Phil Bartlett does, whether there is still a need for most conventional conferences. The environmental cost of...

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  15. Is foreign aid really a bad trip?

    While some argue that overseas conferences are economically and culturally important to the host countries, critics of such events say that encouraging air travel to far-flung locations is...

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