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  1. Teaching is on course 1

    The spate of letters whingeing about courses for new lecturers reminds me of students who, when they bother to show up at all, sit sullenly at the back of the lecture hall, fall asleep halfway...

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  2. Teaching is on course 2

    Richard Austen-Baker (Letters, May ) suggests that the value of training higher education teachers to teach can be evaluated if we get "proper scientific evidence as to whether students actually do...

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  3. No example

    Ann Rossiter, acting director of the Social Market Foundation, urges state schools and colleges to follow higher education into the market (Opinion, May ). This is the intention of the "basically...

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  4. Next stop, London

    Kristin Clemet's eloquent plea for 2020 vision on the Bologna Process sat significantly alongside your editorial on boosting lifelong learning (Opinion, May 20). The Bergen meeting of European...

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  5. Wobbly table?

    Endorsing the value of information that is at best four years and at worst ten years out of date by using teaching quality assessment scores to contribute to your published league table (May ) calls...

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  6. Not so miraculous 1

    I am writing to protest against the deportation of my friend and co-author, Kenneth Good, from Botswana on May 31. Ken's appeal to the High Court was turned down this morning. Ken, a resident of...

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  7. Not so miraculous 2

    Last week's feature by Kenneth Good, professor of political studies at the University of Botswana, on the case for democratic reform ("What use is a silent witness?", May ) was a refreshing read,...

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  8. Trust me, I am a physicist

    When Stephen Hawking saves you a seat next to him at a conference dinner, you know you've arrived in theoretical physics. Anna Fazackerley meets Lisa Randall, whose ideas about extra dimensions have...

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  9. Welcome to cyber-campus: make friends and insult people

    A controversial US website that shares students' personal details has arrived in the UK. Stephen Phillips logs on The social life on US campuses is somehow different this year. The conversations...

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  11. Big questions answered

    Have you ever wondered, as you listen to the vice-chancellor's graduation Address, what makes a great leader? Have your thoughts ever turned to what makes successful government as you sit in a...

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  12. Campus curiosities

    Number 7: The Turf Tavern, Oxford Bill Clinton may have regretted smoking marijuana ("I did not inhale") but at least he didn't have to admit to any part in cockfighting, bear-baiting or bare-knuckle...

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  13. Muse of the lab shapes edgy art (1)

    Science can inspire art and art science - just ask Mark Miodownik, a mechanical engineer, and Jane Prophet, an artist, whose collaboration in the use of novel materials sparked a creative buzz The...

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  14. Muse of the lab shapes edgy art (2)

    Science can inspire art and art science - just ask Mark Miodownik, a mechanical engineer, and Jane Prophet, an artist, whose collaboration in the use of novel materials sparked a creative buzz The...

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