Percentages don't make the grade 2
In my view, the inflation of marks ("New class proposed to end 2:1 bonanza", November 9) is not a result of the number of classifications available but the wide range of marks constituting a first. I...
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Bad investment
I have been watching with interest the steady decline in the graduate premium (the extra lifetime earnings of a graduate over a non-graduate). This has gone from £400,000 in 2002 (Walker and Zhu) to...
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Irrelevant past
It was somewhat bemusing to read in the report on the appointment of Malcolm Wicks as the new Science Minister ("Sainsbury's review role raises questions", November 17) the comments attributed to...
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Can't codify freedom
Regarding Geoffrey Alderman's claims to the contrary (Opinion, November 17), the Quality Assurance Agency does recognise the importance of academic freedom. But does the academic community want the...
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Age-old question 1
Guinevere Lohneis, John James and their associate lecturer colleagues at the Open University make two claims (Letters, November 9): first, that many experienced and dedicated tutors will no longer be...
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Age-old question 2
It is my unhappy experience that most universities have an ageist recruitment policy. And academe does not like candidates who have come through an unorthodox academic route. I graduated with a first...
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Age-old question 3
I see from your letters that the Open University is becoming more, not less, ageist. Last year, I found that on becoming 65 I was treated differently from those under 65 when a course for which I had...
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Democracy is best
Brian Leftow's opinion article (November 9) and Michael Shattock's book ("Oxford set to vote on ending self-governance", November 9) both seem to support the idea that where there is real democracy...
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Prize volume
I appreciated the report of my move to Birmingham University to take up the chair of war studies (Inside Track, November 17). But I would like to clarify that I was not the sole winner of the 2003...
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Do you copy?
Not all publishers require authors to assign copyright in the form that led to Judi Sture's article being sold ("Research for sale: $5.95", November 17). Some ask authors only for a "licence to...
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Beating the bullies
This week is anti-bullying week. Just over a year ago, The Times Higher published a report of research by Petra Boynton that alerted institutions to the bullying that is "rife" across higher...
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Is the UK rapidly coming unstuck?
Michael North talks to Race Convention participants about patriotism, veil-wearing and what holds society together. If you make immigrants feel good about themselves that is going to pay off," says...
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'Banal, benign diversity is the best we can hope for'
Multiculturalism is being fiercely debated at universities. A workshop, held by Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, looked at why European governments have dropped references to...
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On both sides of the Iron Curtain
Soviet-era historian Aleksandr Fursenko had the luck to work in the US and found peace studying the most contentious of issues. He tells Huw Richards about the Cold War, Khrushchev and the impact of...
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Dr Dai Llemmer
"Gerald", director of entrepreneurship at a nearly new university on the South Coast, has contacted me to admit: "I don't understand research metrics at all, which is a real problem at parties and in...