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  1. Letter: Marking mad

    Am I quite mad? I have just completed the external examination of a PhD thesis. I was paid £105 plus second-class fares from London to Swansea. The fee works out at £2.92p per hour - about two-thirds...

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  2. Letter: We did meet our target (1)

    Your report on the recovery of funding ("Recruitment failures lose out on £35m", THES, March 2) was mistaken because the Higher Education Funding Council for England published incorrect data for this...

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  3. Letter: We did meet our target (2)

    There should be little surprise that only 7,000 of the projected ,000 enrolments for part-time courses have been received. Most students are part-timers: working 20 hours a week or more outside...

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  4. Leader: For the good of all, UUK must now fight for cash

    Everyone in higher education agrees that universities need more money. The body that exists to fight for it, Universities UK, explored the options thoroughly in the Taylor report. But the task now is...

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  6. Letter: Ideas cost the Earth (1)

    Fred Pearce's review of Vandana Shiva's Tomorrow's Diversity and Norman Moss's Managing the Planet (Books, THES, March 2) seemed to be little more than a Baconian reinforcement. Applauding Moss's...

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  7. Letter: Ideas cost the Earth (2)

    Fred Pearce's attack on Vandana Shiva is an instructive example of how environmentalism without a recognition of the intrinsic value of nature is vulnerable to the self-serving ideology of...

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  8. Letter: Happy relationship

    Matthew Chapman criticises Liverpool University's accreditation of Trinity College degrees in his article on British universities validating degrees from foreign institutions ("Risks in overseas...

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  9. Letter: Sats don't help access

    It seems extraordinary that the UK is now engaged in a debate on the merits of United States Scholastic Assessment Tests ("Britain is urged to adopt US Sats", THES, March 2). American research has...

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  10. Letter: Past imperfect

    I share Beverley Southgate's concern about the declining number of history students (Why I... think history needs a moral purpose, THES, March 2). I suggest several reasons for this: * The deplorable...

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  11. Sermon from the Mount

    The holiest site in Jerusalem, the focus of so much dogmatic and violent rivalry, can show the way to religious peace, argues Bernard Wasserstein. The Jerusalem question lies at the heart of the...

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  12. Critical thinking on the path to peace

    Palestinian intellectual Edward Said recently visited South Africa to advise on education, but while he was there he also spoke of how the country had much to teach the Middle East about the pursuit...

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  13. Why do good neighbours become sworn enemies?

    Jewish writer Eva Hoffman strives to understand the uneasy complexities of human rights and wrongs. Jennifer Wallace met her before her Amnesty lecture. Nobody is on one side or the other permanently...

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  15. Universities benefit from Brown's budget

    Universities will benefit from a raft of measures announced in chancellor Gordon Brown’s budget designed to boost research, innovation and the knowledge economy. With a £23 billion projected surplus...

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