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Readers of our Aug. 21/Aug. 28 report on universities aired their views on education. A German professor said, "Policy mistakes have made untenable teaching conditions here." Another reader suggested English as the lingua franca for education. An alum protested Oxford's insistence on a repeat B.A. as "a colonial hangover."

The World's Top Universities

I found your Aug. 21/aug. 28 cover story, "The World's Most Global Universities," very interesting. Thanks to a long series of unwise political decisions, many German universities, once Europe's educational jewels, inspired by Humboldt's ideas on higher education and admired and copied worldwide, are ...

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