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  1. Parting political shots

    The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...

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  2. Running on a losing FE ticket

    Fawzi Ibrahim does his colleagues in further education no favours by referring to slave contracts and slave-owning employers (THES, March 3). He insults the suffering of millions of people worldwide...

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  3. Beware sloppy sloganeering

    Poorly understood free market principles applied to science funding pose a threat to long-term research, says Derek Roberts. I am disappointed, but not surprised to see (THES, March 10) that the...

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  4. Boy's own revisited

    Laurie Taylor (THES, March 10) was clearly unimpressed with the article by John Davies on the increasing use of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in student assessment (THES, March 3). I was intrigued...

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  5. Micky Mouse mistakes

    John Sutherland's review of a new book on copyright (THES, March 3) has a number of errors: for example, in July 1995 United Kingdom copyright term extends to 70 years post mortem. Contrary to what...

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  6. Redrawing the map by numbers

    In the 1980s Britain went indicator mad. Every institution was subjected to the attentions of managers and auditors compiling new performance indicators to set budgets, measure progress and turn the...

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  7. Neural nonsense

    While I find John Taylor's argument (THES, March 3) interesting and although I share an interest in neural network techniques, I cannot agree that we are on the verge of a breakthrough in...

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  8. Super-vision

    St Antony's College was singled out in an article about the Graduate Student Charter (THES, March 3) as an example of a graduate college where some dissatisfaction exists regarding university...

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  9. Debenture stuck on the slipway

    In your leader column (THES, March 10) you stated that Lancaster University had launched a Pounds 35 million debenture issue. Not so, unfortunately. We have been on the slipway for some time, and had...

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  10. Danger in strict codes of conduct

    I was appalled by the article on campus "Don Juans" by Pam Carter and Tony Jeffs (THES, March 10). Granted there are, regrettably, occasions when students are harassed and pressured by tutors into...

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  11. Drawing the line on classes of degree

    The tragicomic scenes being played out at the University of East Anglia (THES, March 10) again confirm the need for a thorough revision of final degree assessment practice. As both university teacher...

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  12. Freud's shelf-life

    Frederick Crews in his article, "Cheerful assassin defies analysis", (THES, March 3) presents himself as a sort of St George, "a kind and gentle man" slaying the psychoanalytic dragon because of his...

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  13. Take the high road

    Jean Barr argues that the Scottish adult education review offers a chance for resistance and transformation. Liberal adult education has been a small but durable part of the profile of the "old"...

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