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  1. Letter: Poly good show

    The University for Industry chief executive says that "we don't talk about polytechnics now" (Teaching, THES , March 23). This is a pity, since the polytechnic spirit of comprehensive access and...

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  2. Letter: Teachers unite

    B. Doherty's ill-informed implication that university teachers do not work as hard as school teachers was offensive (Letters, THES , March 23). I am sure she would find a suggestion that school...

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  3. Letter: Practice at LIPA

    Phil Baty links two issues at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts: the recent Higher Education Funding Council for England/Liverpool John Moores University evaluation of our internal control...

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  4. Letter: QAA alternative exists (1)

    If the London School of Economics wants to challenge the Quality Assurance Agency ("LSE leads revolt against QAA", THES , March 23), there is no need to draw up an alternative system. Universities...

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  5. Letter: QAA alternative exists (2)

    Do not get too excited about David Blunkett's "lighter" touch inspections. The THES deduced that "the plan would lead to a 40 per cent reduction in inspections". So this means future reviews will be...

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  6. Letter: QAA alternative exists (3)

    Roderick Floud notes that inspection does have some value in that it results in the painting of corridors and the purchasing of books and computers (Opinion, THES , March 23). Perhaps institutions...

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  7. Letter: Our young coddled eggheads (1)

    Your leader and the article by Frank Furedi ("You'll always be my baby", THES , March 23) raise important issues about the role of parents as "consumers" in higher education. In our Economic and...

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  8. Letter: Our young coddled eggheads (2)

    Since I returned to work at a university campus ten years ago, I have been astonished to witness the normalisation of mother-and-child open days. It is parents rather than potential students who are...

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  9. Letter: Our young coddled eggheads (3)

    I can confirm Frank Furedi's observation about the rise in the number of parents attending open days - naively I once thought they might be prospective mature students. But I cannot let his comments...

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  10. Leader: Quality requires radical rethink not a quickfix

    One of the most pressing items in the in-tray of the next secretary of state for education will be the vexed question of quality assurance in higher education. Alan Ryan, Lewis Elton, Roderick Floud...

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    #Opinion

  11. Stalin had to die too

    Like the Soviet machine, the QAA has crushed creativity and wasted resources, Alan Ryan argues. To an academic like myself, the Quality Assurance Agency seems an appalling waste of time and money,...

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  12. Web driver issues free ticket to ride

    In the second of a series on intellectual property rights, Tim Berners-Lee tells Roisin Woolnough that the net must be a public space. When Tim Berners-Lee created the worldwide web, he compared its...

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  13. A Firth who went forth to flourish in a foreign field

    To celebrate anthropologist Sir Raymond Firth's 100th birthday, Peter Loizos looks at his career. Raymond Firth celebrated his 100th birthday on March 25. A pioneer in the establishment of British...

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  14. Afghan intellect blossoms in exile

    Despite a Taliban crackdown on secular education, Afghan intellectuals are fighting back, albeit by establishing a university in neighbouring Pakistan. Chris Bunting reports. Mohammad Akbar Kargar's...

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  15. Latest international news

    Russians accuse US student of spying A United States student, John Edward Tobin, who was detained in Voronezh two months ago for possession and sale of drugs, has been charged with espionage. Russian...

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