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  1. Laurie Taylor

    " Burgeoning student numbers are putting pressure on time-tables and forcing universities to extend their teaching hours " - THES May 18. FROM: The departmental secretary (Maureen) TO: All full-time...

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  2. Leader: Animal health needs more research, not less

    The foot and mouth epidemic may be past its peak but the lessons for research policymakers are fundamental. For decades, the United Kingdom had an Agricultural Research Council. The word "food" was...

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  3. Leader: Bologna offers Eurosceptics a poor poll target

    As Britain's election focus turned to Europe, education ministers from the European Union and beyond last weekend nudged the Bologna process - shorthand for convergence of the Continent's higher...

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  4. Letter: Troubled pasts

    You correctly highlight the vulnerability of students who have decided to make "easy" money as prostitutes ("Red light finds its way on to campus", THES , May 11). Doubtless the vision of ever-...

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  5. Letter: Universities are private already (1)

    So the Conservatives have put forward proposals to free universities from state funds by means of endowment ("Party pieces: promises and prescriptions", THES , May 18). Whatever their merits, one...

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  6. Letter: Universities are private already (2)

    The most interesting datum contained in your poll of academic voting intentions was the fact that 126 out of 501 academics polled declined to "express a voting intention" ("Academics abandon Tories...

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  7. Letter: Game of monopoly (1)

    In your leader ("New Hefce boss is on a mergers mission", THES , May 18), you describe the result as universities with "massive student numbers, front-rank research, deep and wide links into the...

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  8. Letter: Game of monopoly (2)

    The proposed merger between London Guildhall, North London and East London universities would mean lower-quality "higher education" for London's poorest students ("Giant London merger plan", THES ,...

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  9. Letter: Modernity knocks

    What an old-fashioned view of the role of higher education "League Tables 2001" ( THES , May 18) assume. In February last year, about 60 metres from where I sit, education secretary David Blunkett...

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  10. Letter: Creative model

    Perhaps one way of overcoming the split in lifelong learning is to be creative about structures ("Split in sector is stifling lifelong learning, warns Niace leader", THES , May 11). The University of...

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  11. Letter: In brief (1)

    How new is the new breed of leader (Analysis, THES , May 18)? In your list of 36 new and old v-cs, I noticed not a single female name, nor much to suggest the presence of some non-Anglo-Saxon blood....

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  12. Letter: In brief (2)

    Why do I find the idea of publicly funded posts in astrology ("Medieval minister wants Indian students to be taught vedic astrology", THES , May 4) odd when we have publicly funded posts in Christian...

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  13. Letter: In brief (4)

    Turkey's ambassador in London (Letters, THES , May 11) is perhaps unaware of my report (see www.gomidas.org ) wherein I narrate the systematic manner in which Turkish archival authorities impeded my...

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  14. Letter: OU's role in expansion

    Baroness Blackstone is right to point out that a change in the way Open University students are recorded might confuse readers of the various statistics recently released (Letters, THES , May 18)....

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  15. Letter: In brief (3)

    Christopher Wood (Books, THES , May 18) bases much criticism of pop entries in the latest Grove music dictionary on one "inaccuracy": that the word "still " is missing in the title of Carole King's...

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