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  1. Sheena Grant, 1941-2010

    Through her work as a local champion of the rights of the lowest-paid staff in higher education, Sheena Grant also became a national figure in the trade union movement.She was born in Aberdeen on 14...

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  2. Truth is our profession

    Malcolm Gillies discusses the reality of university reputation

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  3. The wisdom of being positively supportive

    Frank Furedi evokes the Aristotelian notion of phronesis, as interpreted by Hannah Arendt, in support of his claim that "Our job is to judge" (17 March). In a classic non sequitur, he then expresses...

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  4. Market credentials (1 of 2)

    In "Cutting the Gordian knot" (17 March), Alasdair Smith argues that removing price and number restrictions from our universities would reduce costs, as would limiting the intake of "unqualified"...

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  5. Market credentials (2 of 2)

    Predictably, the number of student places will need to be restricted in some way to constrain state expenditure on student financial support. David Willetts, the universities and science minister,...

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  6. Limiting our worldview

    In his piece "The end is not nigh" (Opinion, 3 March), Sir Adam Roberts argues that we need to be more precise about the threats posed to the humanities and social sciences and less paranoid about...

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  7. Keele, philosophy matters

    I am writing to add my voice in protest to the proposal to close the philosophy programme at Keele. I went there in 1989, one of the first of my family to attend university. I am the son of a butcher...

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  8. Ruby slip-ups

    In the cultural commentary piece on The Wizard of Oz ("Hello, Yellow Brick Road", 17 March), several stated facts call for correction. The writers who actually "tweaked" the 1939 film's screenplay -...

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  9. Measure of popularity

    As the literature indicates, the strength of a "superbrand" can be measured in many ways ("The name says it all", 10 March).However, although not listed in the ÌÇÐÄVlog World Reputation...

    #Letters

  10. Dressing down

    Margot Feelbetter missed the point in her response regarding a university's demand that its academics "dress up" on open days ("Cosmetic effect", 17 March).British universities have overtly practised...

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  11. Failure is not an option

    Reflexive claims for the US academy's greatness ring hollow, says John Summers, given elite institutions' tight links with economic and political power and lack of appetite for challenging ideas

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  13. Film review: The Housemaid

    An unbelievable, unerotic thriller may still appeal to viewers' sense of silliness, concludes Duncan Wu

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  15. Campus round-up

    IoE/East London/SheffieldImagination still alive and wellComputer games, pop music and television are enriching rather than destroying the imaginative games that children play, according to a study....

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