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  1. The real bottom line

    Transnational initiatives pay dividends far greater than a share of the overseas student market, Paul Greatrix insists

    #Opinion

  3. Recalibrate with care

    Reform of the high-stakes A level is an inherently risky business, says Mary Curnock Cook, who sees the value in a number-based scale

    #Opinion

  4. To a professor are you a professor?

    "We do currently have more professors than you could shake a stick at," admitted Louise Bimpson, our Corporate Director of HR, when confronted with news of the ever-growing number of professors in UK...

    #Laurie

  5. None so deaf as those who will not hear

    So we should define our roles as providers of policy briefs and focus on what works, while addressing underlying values and political questions about what is desirable - the questions that preoccupy...

    #Letters

  6. Narrow vision

    Next year, the research excellence framework will assess the quality of research at higher education institutions across the UK. British-based academics will select their "best" recent outputs for...

    #Letters

  7. Don't retrench, rejuvenate

    Concerns about UK doctoral education ("Local difficulties: are UK PhDs really second-rate?", News, 12 July) are part of a wider and sustained wave of international criticism. The underlying message...

    #Letters

  8. Precise definitions

    Jennifer Jenkins ("Raising the 'spectras'", Letters, 26 July), in reply to Michael Hollas' complaint about incorrect English ("Singularly annoying", Letters, 19 July), asks to what historical point...

    #Letters

  9. Gold value trumps costs

    The government's plan to make publicly funded scientific research available for free is a major tipping point in academia ("Government and funders move to make Finch a reality", www....

    #Letters

  10. Stings and sweetness

    As a beekeeping academic for years, I appreciated Ruth Farwell's "Hive talking" (Off-piste, 26 July). Students can be like bees: the more you wave them away, the more they come back for more. However...

    #Letters

  11. Stick to the standards

    Simeon Underwood is right ("Still stuck on the audit wheel, and we could do with a credence revival", Opinions, 19 July). In the new world of consumerism that now characterises English higher...

    #Letters

  12. Vague gestures

    Jonathan Steinberg ("Cult of personalities", 19 July) claims that the "collapse of the Soviet Union brought down the whole edifice of social science". This is more puzzling than claiming that...

    #Letters

  13. Caution: NHS work in progress

    For six years the government has targeted the decline in UK health research. But a law putting GPs in charge of allocating local resources has left many clinicians fearing that those advances could...

    #Features
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  14. Year of living dangerously

    In puritan times, says Thomas Docherty, we need sabbaticals more than ever

    #Columnists
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    #Opinion
    #Thomas Docherty