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  1. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that revolves around a seedy shop in Soho: "Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left the shop...

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  10. Laurie Taylor Column

    Anything new in The THES this week? There is a major research study pointing out that the teaching quality assessment cost more than £100m and lasted ten years and was probably a complete waste of...

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  11. Letter: Review is good for you (1)

    After the barrage of criticisms of the Quality Assurance Agency ("QAA faces boycott by 66,000 lecturers", Analysis, Leader, Letters, Laurie Taylor, THES, March 30), an alternative perspective needs...

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  12. Letter: Review is good for you (2)

    It is not only institutional learning that has caused the rise in average total scores under the teaching quality assessment. In May 1995, I was a member of one of the first assessment teams applying...

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  13. Letter: Review is good for you (3)

    Laurie Taylor and the QAA overlook the true point of honorary degrees, and the reason why they are arranged orally. The traditional salutation is: "We give you the cachet, and you give us the cash,...

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  14. Letter: Review is good for you (4)

    Your leader says I am not a maverick. But I am, as is anyone these days who believes that universities and their staff should be trusted to do a good job, until they demonstrate that they cannot....

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  15. Letter: A plus for UK maths

    I found startling the statement by Brian Butterworth in his review of Keith Devlin's book The Maths Gene that "if we fall behind our economic competitors - and we have fallen a long way behind in the...

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