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  1. Fired up over academic freedom 2

    In support of his view that academic freedom must be tempered, Bob Brecher cites John Stuart Mill's argument that it is not permissible to "shout 'fire' in a crowded theatre". (Working Knowledge,...

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  2. Fired up over academic freedom 3

    The complexity of the notion of academic freedom is revealedJby the way it emerges in different contexts. There are also some attempts to hijack it. The Academic Bill of Rights ("Students who pay the...

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  3. Three Ds = devaluation 1

    The Government should be concerned about the deflation of entrance requirements at elite universities ("Top institutions accept students with D grades", August 25) for two reasons. First, reductions...

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  4. Three Ds = devaluation 2

    I do not know a single lecturer who holds the view that entry standards have not declined. This is not the students' fault. Most are bright young people and a delight to teach. But they find...

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  5. Aim is not to satisfy

    In your editorial ("Survey needs absentees", August 25), you mistakenly call the National Student Survey the National Student Satisfaction Survey despite the fact that only the last question is about...

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  6. A bad business

    According to Kel Fidler, the vice-chancellor of my univer-sity, "more and more universities are recognising that they have to be run as a business" (Opinion, August 25). A pro vice-chancellor...

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  7. Satanic prose

    Henry Kelly's account of the representation of Satan (Opinion, August 18) is misleading in its suggestion that scholars "are at a loss to explain" how Satan acquired his infamy. This is ably...

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  8. Covert support

    The arguments against covert research have been raging for many years and do have some validity ("Ethics guards are 'stifling' creativity", August 25). But it is precisely because of the inadequacy...

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  9. Brought to book

    The article "US rage at textbook price hike" (August 11) failed to provide an accurate understanding of the changing nature of today's college textbooks. Publishers offer thousands of options for...

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  10. Seduction kit: take £1K and a list of local bars

    Clearing is no longer about denying the needy a chance to prosper, it's about pushing the student experience. Nigel Barley listens in on a few calls When Big Brother set up a university for...

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  11. Labour's great hero who nearly was

    Blair is the most unpopular PM since polls began, but that isn't the whole story, say Vernon Bogdanor et al Every hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, becomes a bore at last. The Blair era, an era of...

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  12. He has conviction, but voters never did

    To argue that Tony Blair has turned people off politics implies that they were turned on in the first place, but the evidence tells us they were not. Voting levels have fallen - as has membership of...

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  13. The Blair effect on political studies?

    Students are largely unenthused by the major parties and are particularly turned off by a new Labour approach that they perceive as anti-democratic and spin-driven. Tony Blair is especially unpopular...

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  14. Women are still 15% cheaper

    Despite being very well represented on campus, women are being short-changed in the workplace, says Anna Fazackerley When English and drama tutor Peter Lewis looks out across the lecture theatre at...

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