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  1. Astronomical effort 1

    The article on Stuart McLeay's work ("Next RAE may demote 5*s", April 2) computes grade-point average (GPA) scores for the next research assessment exercise. It argues that there will be few...

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  2. Astronomical effort 2

    "Industry winners losing out in the RAE" (April 2) highlights one of the key problems with university reform: the craze for measurement and accountability presumes comparability. The assumption that...

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  3. Dissent on descent

    Paul Gross ("Why I don't believe Zionism is racist", March 26) neatly evades one of the key issues in the "Zionism is racism" debate. This is not only, or even mainly, about occupation. Zionism's...

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  4. Proving popular

    The analysis of trends in UK student choice ("Students forsake post-92 sector", March 12), should have established that St Andrews University is clearly an admissions winner. Student numbers at St...

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  5. No-win competition 1

    This Thatcherite policy ("Ministers see off rebels in bill triumph", April 2) will mean that within a decade the British electorate will cease to see universities as a public good. Fees will shoot up...

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  6. No-win competition 2

    1. Gordon Brown: "Nothing will matter more than leadership if universities are to be global players" (News, March 26). As not all universities can be global players, this is clearly a call for...

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  7. Double your money

    "Vice-chancellors concerned about cuts to budget" (April 2) could be forgiven for not recognising that the recent Welsh grants settlement: (a) provides growth of 1.7 per cent in funded full-time...

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  8. Independent Imperial

    I was somewhat perplexed to see Mandy Telford's letter ("NUS still united", April 2) in which she boldly claimed that students voted to remain in the NUS "in every single student union referendum...

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  9. Identity in a spin

    In the photo accompanying the comparison of the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus and Alastair Campbell ("Spin? We've seen it all before", April 2) the man on the right is one (unrelated) Quintus...

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  10. A blinkered response to idol threats

    A year after Saddam's statue came down, we reflect on two acts of iconoclasm and ask Middle East experts for their views on the war and its effects By ignoring Islam's differing strains, evident in...

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  11. Life may be better, but the future is still far from rosy

    A year after Saddam's statue came down, we reflect on two acts of iconoclasm and ask Middle East experts for their views on the war and its effects Some think conditions have improved for many of the...

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  12. Wounded by a deep divide between their two cultures

    Tension between the values prized at home and those prized at school can lead Asian girls in Britain to harm themselves. Paul Ghuman says we can do more to help them The ban on girls wearing the...

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  14. Holistic cure in these testing times

    Aptitude tests may help UK universities spot bright applicants but they can never be the only yardstick by which candidates are measured, argues Steven Schwartz Sixty years ago, Harvard University...

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