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  1. Quarts into pint pots

    Do not put today's Synthesis: Buildings and Estate Management in the bin unread. These are your working conditions it is talking about. This is also what "managerialism" in universities is about,...

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  2. The follies Bayrou

    Translation has always been recognised as a difficult endeavour. There is an old Italian saying "traduttore, traditore", which equates it to treason. This is because every word is spoken or written...

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  3. Don's Diary

    Friday. After reading the most important sections of The THES - the job ads, Laurie Taylor, Antithesis - turn to Don's Diary, only to read yet another academic's account of his voyage abroad to some...

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  4. Agenda benders

    Royal Commissions have been as rare as England Test cricket victories in recent years. They did not fit with 1980s anti-consensus politics. Certainly education did not rate one. It fell therefore to...

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  5. Dead Clever

    Part SEVEN: the story so far ... In his phone call to registrar Dennis Strood, Henry tells him to leave his office door unlocked over the weekend. On the way to the break-in, he tells Toni that...

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  6. Dead Clever

    Part EIGHT: the story so far... Henry has Toni write the lead story for University Focus, exposing the dead student fraud. Before sending the proofs to the printer, he puts Toni's byline on the story...

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  7. Don's Diary

    THURSDAY. "Bore Da. Bwrdd Yr Iaith Gymraeg. Welsh Language Board." Even though I have heard these words on several occasions, I am taken aback since it is unusual to hear anything other than English...

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  10. Trauma of the 3am bid for a university place

    There must be a better entrance system, says concerned parent Brian Everett. I am a parent of a teenager whose results came yesterday. For many A-level students August 17 will have brought good news...

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  11. Lessons in intertwingling

    Mike Holderness finds a deeper message in the fun of electronic learning. You might say (OK, I will say) that the new playful semi-irreverent banter found on this Internet discussion list will save...

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  13. American gripes about grades

    Murray Lee Eiland looks at a case of campus consumer fraud with grade A and B rewards given for C and D work One of the explanations offered for the United States's remarkably durable economic...

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  14. All aboard for mission to explain

    A pump made from human muscle and plastic is being developed at Glasgow University as an alternative to heart transplants.'' A first paragraph to please any news editor - catchy but informative,...

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  15. Getting a slice of a bigger pie

    The envious may see those with degrees getting better seats in the job market 'house' at their expense, but investment in higher education has benefits for the country's economic prospects too,...

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