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  1. Why put-upon academics quit UK 1

    I, like Alan Ryan, have a special fondness for my Oxford college, Magdalen ("Why I...", THES , May 31). Like him, I am packing for a trip to the west coast of the US, although to join the Salk...

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  2. Why put-upon academics quit UK 2

    Full marks to Mary Evans for highlighting the compliance culture suffocating universities (Soapbox, THES , May 31). Fear and apathy feed this. Young, new academics are reluctant to challenge the "new...

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  3. New angle, old debate? 1

    The assertion (Opinion, THES , June 7) that your tables of A-level scores achieved by students admitted to higher education show which are "the easiest and hardest British universities to get into"...

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  4. New angle, old debate? 2

    Including the Open University in your analysis of A-level grades of university entrants (Analysis, THES , June 7), would have confounded your pre and post-1992 universities dichotomy. Since its...

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  5. Anti-social science 1

    Sociologist Harry Collins notes (Books, THES , June 7) that the idea of a "science of society" has been so thoroughly squashed that "post-modernist carpet-baggers roam at will". On the following page...

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  6. Anti-social science 2

    My sympathy goes out to Steven Cotgrove about whom Harry Collins reminisces,"we beat him up mercilessly". Surely it ought to be possible to engage in critical debate without resorting to such a...

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  7. In brief 1

    David Triesman's undergraduate dissertation, referred to by Professor Lapping (Laurie Taylor, THES , June 7), is thought by some scholars to be an early draft of his paper on creating "The university...

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  8. In brief 2

    David Miliband's father, Ralph, was never a professor at the London School of Economics (In the News, THES , May 31). When he left the LSE in 1972 he was a senior lecturer, having been denied...

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  9. In brief 3

    Maggie Pearson is wrong not to worry where the funding comes from for medical education ("Harassed, pulled every which way, but committed to her workers", THES , June 7). University-level education...

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  10. Showing support 1

    We were saddened by the suggestion that Middlesex University declined to collaborate with Touro College, New York, on the grounds that it is a Jewish college ("Jewish college snubbed", THES , May 31...

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  11. Laurie Taylor Column

    Modularity is a sham. It transforms knowledge into a commodity - Bob Brecher, THES June 7 Maureen. Why is there this big question mark on the finals mark sheet next to Janet Gardiner? She's got...

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  12. Leader: Europe needs research council to take on US

    The European Union has always realised that research is a contributor to economic success and a machine for creating a community spirit. But its research spending has been largely confined to the...

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  13. Leader: Academe must heed hidden message of 9/11

    Only a few weeks ago, British higher education was celebrating a big increase in the number of applications from overseas students. No matter what difficulties there might be with prime minister Tony...

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    #Opinion

  14. G10 report implementation the 'real test,' says Liikanen

    Brussels, 12 June 2002 The 'real test' for the G10 medicines group will be the implementation of its newly-released report, according to Enterprise and Information Society Commissioner, Erkki...

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  15. List of proposed sites for ITER project becomes clearer

    Brussels, 12 June 2002 Japan has joined Canada in proposing a site for the planned international experimental fusion reactor, ITER. Spain and France have also sent letters to EU Research Commissioner...

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