Letter: Clash of ideas 2
Where is Islam's contribution to social science (Letters, THES , November 16)? Science demands testing theories by evidence and rational principles. The myth of the Koran as the direct word of God...
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Letter: Hidden assets 1
As an administrator, I was delighted, at last, to read something about the admin side of higher education ("Underpaid, overlooked", THES , November 16). But I take issue with the term "non-academic"...
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Letter: Hidden assets 2
I wholeheartedly agree with Val Atkinson in her splendid article and I'm sure there is a "Maureen" in every school, faculty and department throughout the country. The problem for universities will...
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Letter: Hidden assets 3
Valerie Atkinson's article rings true. Most departmental secretaries are graduates with high-level, wide-ranging capabilities in IT, webpages, interpersonal skills, departmental PR etc. Additionally...
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Letter: An offer to refuse 1
After reading Ron Iphofen's proposed contract (Soapbox, THES , November 9), any potential PhD student considering taking up a place would be justified in saying: "No thanks, I'll go somewhere where I...
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Letter: An offer to refuse 2
Please thank Ron Iphofen, and Rachel Brookes and David Dennison (Readers' reactions, THES , November 16) for a tailor-made teaching material for our postgraduate research student generic training...
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Letter: Poor policies
Kenneth Baker, who opposes graduate tax (Opinion, THES , November 16), has not woken up to the fact that most graduates no longer vote Tory because of its policy on the issue. Even so, he is right....
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Letter: What price success?
Annette Zera, principal of Tower Hamlets College, says the leadership model proposed for further education "appears to rely hugely on audit and bureaucracy combined with fairly damning criticism. We...
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Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 1
Staff at the University of Wolverhampton are off sick with stress. This is not the news that any vice-chancellor wants to acknowledge and yet Tony Tysome correctly identifies a problem of stress-...
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Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 2
I agree that "it's a painful time to be in the minority" (Features, THES , November 16), especially when minority ethnic student numbers are rising and widening participation strategies abound, yet...
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Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 3
Helen Hague's article assumes that all ethnic minority staff are black and everyone else is white. Such polarisation is at the heart of racism. How disappointing that a report on initiatives to...
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Letter: Stop stress and disadvantage 4
The Home Office has just awarded us a grant to assist refugees, particularly with respect to post-school education ("Red tape is throttling talent", THES , November 16). The home secretary has also...
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From today's UK papers
Pressure mounts on schools Seventy six schools in England and Wales failed to reach the government target of 15 per cent of pupils attaining five GCSE C-grades or higher, according to official league...
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Latest news
Turkish student 'at risk of torture' Emrullah Karagoz, a pro-Kurdish Turkish student, held incommunicado in police custody since November 1 despite a judge’s order for his transfer to prison, is at...