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  1. Letter: No bursary for us

    The training bursary for part-time graduate trainee teachers (News in brief, THES , June 22) does not apply to those training to teach in further and higher education. It is interesting that the...

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  2. Letter: Illiberal Opus Dei? (1)

    Paul Bompard claims Jesuits are particularly opposed to Opus Dei and uses my name as evidence ("Sainted or tainted", THES , June 22). I am not a "British Jesuit". I left the Society of Jesus in 1975...

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  3. Letter: Not very broad church (1)

    Phil Baty's report ("Clerics up in arms as reverend rejected", THES , June 22) on Andrew Brown's exclusion from the Lambeth MA in theology on the grounds that he is a Unitarian misses two details...

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  4. Letter: Trend variations

    The conclusion that the proportion of good degrees has risen slightly between 1994-95 and 1998-99 (Analysis, THES , June 22) is consistent with analyses I have undertaken. But analyses of whole-...

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  5. Letter: What's the score? (2)

    The scrapping of the inept teaching quality assessment regime, as promised, will bring to an end an annual and instructive comedy of manners. In my own subject, archaeology, the maximum score that...

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  6. Letter: PRP: perfectly ridiculous plan? (1)

    The question is no longer if performance-related pay will be implemented for higher education staff but when, judging by the clear warning given by Sir Howard Newby ("Pay rises will be linked to...

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  8. Letter: Let's hear it for Hodge (2)

    Nobody seems to have noticed that, at least until very recently, Margaret Hodge has been a governor of the London School of Economics. So her apparent outrage at this academy's generosity towards her...

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  9. Leader: Students, get fired up about the less well-off

    The Scottish Parliament has decided that upfront tuition fees are a bad idea and has abandoned them for its own students and for European Union students from outside the United Kingdom. But while...

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  10. Leader: Sacred A level must step aside for smarter study

    New education secretary Estelle Morris is right to order a quick review of AS levels and basic skills qualifications: Scotland's horrible experience last year showed how risky it is to ignore signs...

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  11. Clinic with the human touch

    Inspirational treatment, star patients and family feuds. John Fitzpatrick and Lawrence Friedman on the rise and fall of an elite psychiatric clinic. Very soon, the world-renowned Menninger Clinic in...

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  12. What does the future hold for sociology?

    "Disappointment in the achievements of sociology has often come from excessive expectations of different sorts, while announcements of its demise are usually accompanied by fanfares for alternative...

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  13. Who'd like their guts nailed to the mast?

    In the light of recent attacks on sailors, Chris Bunting wonders if we should revise our romantic image of piracy. You have to admire the man's spirit. In 1682, Bartholomew Sharpe had just cheated...

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  14. Filling the need for isms and isations

    Sociology has had many critics but it is still responding to society's desire to be explained. Alison Utley charts the history of the discipline. Of all the seemingly unanswerable questions tackled...

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  15. Our window on nature's workings

    The Galapagos, once important to science because of their biological isolation, are now also a lab for studying the impact of humans on the environment, writes Edward Larson No place on earth is...

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