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The  names against the merger are adding up day by day - watch their list....Of great interest is the less than convincing history of the mergers Messrs. Sykes and Roberts have been involved in previously.</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ulu.lon.ac.uk/ucl imperial merger.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ulu.lon.ac.uk/ucl imperial me"><U>ULU</U></A> <I>The  merger information page on the ULU site, with good links</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/proposedmerger/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/proposedmerger/"><U>UCL</U></A> <I>The college's official site contains the approved propaganda</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ic.ac.uk/templates/text_3.asp?P=3702" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ic.ac.uk/templates/text_3.asp"><U>Imperial College</U></A> <I>vapid statement from the Merger Committee about their 'vision' - notable for complete absence of any future for the humanities</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/proposedmerger/Intranet/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/proposedmerger/Intr"><U>UCL Intranet</U></A> <I>Interesting stuff for those who can access it, including Sir Derek's extremely skewed SWOT analysis</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.educationet.org/z0239.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.educationet.org/z0239.html"><U>Universities at Bay</U></A> <I>An assault on the merger from the political right</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.thesis.co.uk/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.thesis.co.uk/"><U>Times Higher Education Supplement</U></A> <I> Sign up for free access; THES is carrying a lot of relevant reporting</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/1842695" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/artic"><U>Simon Jenkins's</U></A> <I>first-class Evening Standard article, (31st October) flaying the merger proposals</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v419/n6909/full/419763a_fs.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.t"><U>Nature's</U></A><I> expos</I><I>é of the wrong-headedness of the assumptions of Roberts and Sykes (free site registration necessary)</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=347600" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?s"><U>Sir Alan Ryan</U></A><I> of New College Oxford twits Sir Derek's poor grasp of sociology, amongst other things.</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0251f0c0.png" border=0 width="31" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><I>Threatened</I><A HREF="http://www.education.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/09/nfee09.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/11/09/ixnewstop.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.education.telegraph.co.uk/new"><U><I> </I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.education.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/09/nfee09.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/11/09/ixnewstop.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.education.telegraph.co.uk/new"><U>back-bench revolt</U></A> <I>may signal abandonment of top-up fees, removing a plank of the merger argument.</I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>