Letter: Language of layoffs (2)
Your article on job cuts suggests we are close to a meltdown in foreign languages provision in some areas of the capital. London First, the organisation that promotes the development of the capital's...
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Letter: Jammy of Jamaica
Until three years ago, I was an academic in a "new" British university. I left to pursue better pay and conditions in the private sector, but was dismayed at the loss of quality of life. So I came...
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Letter: Motion picture
Thank you for your report of Natfhe's conference ("Union campaigns to scrap QAA", THES , June 1). It was both informative and lively; rather like the event itself. But I was surprised to read your...
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Letter: Is might right? (1)
More than half a century after the end of the second world war, there is still an inability to deal maturely with the moral issues raised by the bombing of Dresden (Books, THES , May 25). In...
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Letter: Is might right? (2)
It is odd that the apologists confuse the issue. No one denies the courage of bomber command crews - they did their duty but did not know better. The Dresden raid was an atrocity, of that there is no...
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Letter: Conflicts of interest
In the course of preparing for the latest research assessment exercise and an impending Quality Assurance Agency visit, I have noticed a rather worrying discrepancy between the two concerning...
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Letter: Shed a tier for society
Tony Dennis's prediction that the new universities are likely to become, in effect, technical colleges that offer only a limited range of vocational subjects (Letters, THES , June 1) seems right. At...
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Letter: Criminal silence over jail issues
Roger Matthews and Jock Young raise a very important issue regarding the silence of academic criminology on the government's criminal justice policies. ("We'll raise you seven prisons", THES , June 1...
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Letter: Debased mettle
Our ordered state of higher education, where a university is a university is a university, is again threatened. The characteristics of UK universities are defined in every university charter. These...
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