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  1. Tune in to dropouts 1

    When I read "Dropout push adds to load" (July 1), I was concerned that staff were being blamed for dropouts. I read on and discovered that lecturers were teaching only 150 hours a year (six hours a...

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  2. Tune in to dropouts 2

    Explanations for high dropout rates among working-class students often blame institutional attitudes and processes for the problem, as in the research by Jocey Quinn ("Project lifts the hood on male...

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  3. Leading the field

    London's hosting of the 30th Olympiad in 2012 brings a unique opportunity to raise the profile of hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism subjects and to ensure their recognition as essential...

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  4. Not so clear view

    I was interested to see that the co-author of The Times Good University Guide , Bernard Kingston, describes its methodology as transparent (Soapbox, June 17). If it were so, I would be able to check...

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  5. No competition

    Your article "Scheme to validate foundation degrees is met with caution" (July 1) requires clarification. It suggests that the NVC and University Vocational Awards Council service is competing with...

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  6. Theory blown away

    The studies of wind and nuclear power cited by J. A. Simmons (Letters, June 24) are contradicted by other sources, including the German Environment Ministry's 2004 report on "ecologically optimised"...

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  7. Chemists learn careless talk could cost lives

    Days after the London bombings, Anna Fazackerley joins top chemists in a closed-door meeting on how to prevent academic know-how being used to turn the next attack into a chemical weapons massacre It...

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  8. A graphic warning from Japan

    In March 1995, members of a religious cult released the deadly gas sarin on the Tokyo underground system, killing 12 people and injuring more than 5,000. The gas attack was the first major terrorist...

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  9. Terror - it's a truly bourgeois tradition

    As the debate on terror intensifies, Terry Eagleton delves into the philosophy of terrorism and finds its origins in middle-class anarchy Terrorism is a surprisingly new invention. Of course human...

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  10. Stargazer who sits in Albert's shadow

    What happened to the man who verified Einstein's theory? asks Arthur Miller When Albert Einstein's theory of the cosmos was verified on May 19, 1919, the German physicist became an icon of the 20th...

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