GPA: imprecise or exact? (2 of 2)
Your explanation of the US-inspired GPA system states that the average "is calculated by finding the average of course grades, although sometimes weightings are used to place additional value on...
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Disservice to young people
Earlier this month the government published Letting Children be Children, the report of an independent review led by Reg Bailey, chief executive of the Christian charity Mothers' Union, that aimed to...
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Side-effects of medical cuts (1 of 2)
Your news story "Graduate doctors dread deep cuts" (23 June) rightly highlights the negative impact that the withdrawal of funding for graduate-entry medical degrees will have on widening access to...
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Side-effects of medical cuts (2 of 2)
As someone involved in postgraduate medical education, I am grateful to Times Higher Education for warning of the huge fee impediments facing any future graduates "wanting to study medicine as a...
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Principle needs clarification
The report of my contribution to the recent British Academy discussion of the Haldane principle and the independence of research ("Haldane myth prevents a 'grown-up approach' to setting of research...
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Points aren't everything
G. Colborne is most likely confused owing to an understandable, but still erroneous, piece of conclusion-jumping (Letters, 23 June).There are justifiable reasons why many students accepted into...
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All outputs are equal
The opinion piece by Keith Kahn-Harris, "Let's broaden the definition" (23 June), lamented that the research excellence framework privileges peer-reviewed journal articles over other forms of...
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TV review: Scott and Bailey
Gary Day finds the writing sharp and the acting compelling in ITV's new female detective series
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Film review: The Conspirator
Robert Redford's period courtroom drama is a cautionary tale of flawed American justice, observes Duncan Wu
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Cambridge pips Oxford to the post in fourth annual 'Table of tables'
Exeter posts a jump as the ancients vie for top honours again this year. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Donna Lamping, 1953-2011
A Canadian psychologist who settled in the UK, Donna Lamping is remembered as a scholar who brought "light, glamour and style to traditional British academia".Professor Lamping was born on 12...
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Appointments
University of TorontoGreg ScholesGreg Scholes, professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, has been awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences. The honour, given...
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Odds and quads
This walking stick once belonged to Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the 20th century. The handkerchief was used to cover his face after his...
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Research Intelligence - Fighting for integrity
UKRIO, set up to ensure probity in research, needs funds - but some can’t see a role for it, writes Paul Jump
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René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle
Alex Danchev revels in a sumptuous display of the Belgian master's playful and profound blend of banality and mystery