Letter: Toying with internet
I remember when pushing the boundaries on computer networks was the accepted norm ("Was Janet 'raped' by a nerd?", THES , August 10). Today's internet activities require confidence and reliability of...
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Letter: Third wayward
J. K. Galbraith once observed that the modern Conservative was searching for "a superior moral justification for greed". Robert Sugden's thoughtful review of The Global Third Way Debate (Books, THES...
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Letter: Homo truths
When eyebrows began to be raised about the political correctness of the phrase "ad hominem" (Letters, THES , August 10, 17) I asked my father, a retired classicist, for a view. He tells me that homo...
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Letter: Doing a number
The rise in the pass rate at A level ("A-level horde prompts calls for more cash", THES , August 17) reminds me of when I was a maths student and criticised one of the final-year exams as being "...
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Letter: Immune therapy
Having collaborated with Abraham Karpas on some articles on passive immune therapy ("Medics see red over bad blood", THES , July 6), I can confirm that statistical evidence favours the therapy's...
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Letter: Why I am prepared to step down (1)
While there are obvious problems debating relations between the Association of University Teachers and Natfhe when many members are on holiday, your editorial was most welcome (Leader, THES , August...
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Letter: Why I am prepared to step down (2)
Perhaps I should declare my interest for the post of AUT general secretary after all. The first job would be to crack a few AUT executive and Natfhe heads together. How parochial that some union...
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Letter: 'Scary' talents of PhDs
As a fellow mature postgraduate, I empathise with the plight of Chris Willis and others entering the job market (Letters, THES , August 24). But Willis will probably find that age and set ideas held...
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Letter: Ask the audience
Kate Exley offers advice for combating passivity in large first-year lectures (Teaching, THES, July 6), but there is technology that can help scaffold the steps she...
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Letter: Earning and learning
I understand the need to provide your readers with the full facts of student life, but your article on students combining work and study ("Odd jobs are ever more common", THES , August 17) did not...
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From today's UK papers
Guardian The resignation of John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, has been greeted with glee by universities Independent Aaron Hertzmann, of New York University, has...
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Only half reach grade C in GCSE maths Record numbers of pupils have passed their GCSEs, but more than 40 per cent of all candidates are still failing to achieve grades A to C in core...
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Yale student missing in South Africa South African police are searching for a Yale University student who has been missing for three weeks after finishing a Zulu language course at the University of...
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Clarke bids for university vote Conservative leadership candidate Kenneth Clarke this week promised a compact between the state and universities. His personal manifesto to Tory members said: “I want...
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From today's UK papers
Independent After years of despair over their academic development, boys will narrow the gap with girls in top-grade GCSE success for the first time in the exam's 13-year history, according to...