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  1. Laurie Taylor column

    "Universities report re-sit chaos" - The Times, September 2007 Ah, Martin. There you are. You've come to find out the results of your re sits? That's right, Professor Lapping. You're wanting to know...

    #Laurie

  3. Leader: The best, the brightest and the brutal truth

    Of all the troubling statistics uncovered by the Sutton Trust's report into elite schools' domination of research universities (page 4), this is the most shocking: a third more pupils are admitted to...

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  4. Oxford-Man opens

    Oxford University officially opened its Oxford-Man Institute this week. The institute, set up with a contribution of £13.75 million from Man Group, the hedge-fund company, is intended "to become the...

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    #News
    #University of Oxford

  5. Second degrees are vital asset 1

    The Government's decision to discontinue funding for students with an existing degree who take a second equivalent or lower qualification ("Denham stands by funding cuts", September 14) is depressing...

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  6. Second degrees are vital asset 2

    One, possibly unintended, consequence of the Government's decision to stop providing funding for "repeat" qualifications is that it could prevent many education professionals who already have masters...

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  7. Fee-market thinking

    Giles Hooper makes a good point in response to Anna Vignoles' batty idea that we should charge more for arts and social sciences than for science and engineering because employers value the latter...

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  8. It's not worthless

    Thom Brooks says that "worthless staff development programmes impact on my work far more than learning names" (Letters, September 14). If staff development is for the pursuit of learning,...

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  9. Teaching paths

    Bristol University's initiative to provide a career "pathway" for its teachers ("Bristol opens career path to give teachers equal footing", September 14) is welcome, but its proposals raise important...

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  10. Save the dropouts

    Before getting too satisfied about the results of the National Student Survey, we should remember that the sample is only of those students who survived to their final year ("Students: yes, we're...

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  11. Listen to lone voices

    In her attack on Aids dissenters ("The fanaticism of denial that must be exposed", September 14), Tara Smith skirts over a fundamental problem for scientists, namely how to recognise when the...

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  12. Mind your language 1

    The debate over appropriate standards of English in a globalised world is getting stuck: the speakers are talking at cross-purposes. As Charles Owen points out (Letters, September 14), situational...

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  13. Mind your language 2

    I have lived in Spain for 26 years and, like Michael Bulley in France (Letters, September 14), have no desire to hear my family and friends talking to me in "English Spanish". But in criticising...

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  14. Mind your language 3

    Instead of engaging with my argument about the implications of English having become the international academic lingua franca, Roy Harris distorts my points and resorts to insults about my...

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  15. Mind your language 4

    Roy Harris feels that it is time someone asked what universities are doing by admitting foreign students who are not linguistically equipped to follow the courses offered. Everyone knows that the...

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