Letter: ILT - free choice or forced entry? (2)
I am writing in response to Marion Hersch's assertion that the ILT is unlikely to offer much to academic support staff (Letters, THES , Aug 3). The ILT has consistently and actively encouraged...
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Letter: ILT - free choice or forced entry? (3)
Aside from the fact that a controversial pedagogical agenda is being imposed on highly skilled, quality-controlled professionals, Bernard Lisewski ( THES , July ), fails to grasp that the...
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Letter: Work abroad penalty (1)
Congratulations for pinpointing the complacency and insularity that has marked so much of the official discourse on internationalism in our universities (Analysis and Leader, THES , August 3). In...
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Letter: Work abroad penalty (2)
The article "Struggle to reverse student immobility" distorts the picture by focusing only on Socrates-Erasmus exchanges. It ignores the thousands of UK students who go beyond the European Union each...
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Letter: Exploited by the lens
So Richard Boyle, in the review of Regeneration: a Reappraisal of Photography in Ceylon 1850-1900 , considers that photographers of the time "could not have anticipated" that their photographs might...
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