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  1. Brian Bercusson, 1947-2008

    Brian Bercusson, one of the world's leading authorities on European labour law, has died.Although he was born in Montreal in 1947 and initially educated in Canada and Israel, Professor Bercusson...

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  2. Model masters but minimalist sixth forms 1

    In your comprehensive analysis of the Bologna Process you state "the one-year masters offered by UK universities could be seen as minimalist, even lazy" ("The long and the short of it", 2 October)....

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  3. Model masters but minimalist sixth forms 2

    No discussion of the masters degree is complete without taking note of another peculiarity of English - though less so Scottish - education, namely the specialised sixth form, which transfers to...

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  4. 'Isms' are still fighting fit 1

    I am disappointed that no challenge was presented to the ignorant views of the blogger and Bruce Charlton who claim that feminism is "bullshit" and a "stupid academic fad" ("US blogger plots graph to...

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  5. 'Isms' are still fighting fit 2

    Bruce Charlton, a reader in evolutionary psychiatry, who for some reason is quick to point out that he has an MA in English literature, informs us that in the past "at some point, the humanities...

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  6. 'Isms' are still fighting fit 3

    It is ironic that your US blogger should claim that Marxism is dead, and that it had very little basis as an economic theory, at the very time that capitalist economists and commentators are widely...

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  7. 'Isms' are still fighting fit 4

    In their attacks on recently discredited and declining "isms" such as Marxism and feminism, Bruce Charlton and the unnamed blogger might have mentioned a few more examples such as capitalism,...

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  8. Rankings not so rated

    Robert Johnson Jr proposes a consumer guide to university rankings and suggests that the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings would deserve to be highly rated in any such consumer...

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  9. Door still open to union

    Further to your report on the launch of the New Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES) (The Week in Higher Education, 2 October), there is absolutely no confusion in our...

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  10. Show us the science

    Dave Kimber cites the "Sternberg" controversy as a case for prejudice against the publication of intelligent design research papers in established peer-reviewed journals (Letters, 2 October). The...

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  11. Graduate info is available

    Though I welcome Conservative Shadow Universities Minister Adam Afriyie's desire for "more and better information to help students choose degree courses that are most likely to lead to a graduate...

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  12. I was there

    James Noble Rogers of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (Letters, 25 September) and Jeremy Hoad of the British Educational Research Association (Letters, 2 October) opine that my...

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  13. STFC right on Targett

    Picking up the recently published Wakeham Review of UK Physics, I skipped to the bit about the Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) and found the following sentence:"The STFC's governance...

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  15. University of Ulster - Professor fosters Latin links

    A professor's continuing links with his previous institution in South America are giving undergraduates at the University of Ulster a chance to spend up to a year studying in Venezuela. The...