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  1. Contract contretemps 3

    Roderick Floud's letter omits some facts and misrepresents others. He omits the fact that in July 2002 he told trade union representatives that the "default contract" for academic staff at London Met...

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  2. PhDs in poverty

    So rising numbers of Australian students depend on food handouts ("Students forced to live on charity", April 30)? While I sympathise with impoverished undergraduates around the world, I would point...

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  3. Findings are a bit rich

    I am surprised by your report that children from more affluent families are more successful than those from poor families at getting on to many university courses ("Subjects slot into class divide",...

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  4. Facts and famine

    Richard Faragher writes (Letters, April 30) that I implied that "farming causes starvation". What was published was: "Famine did not exist as we see it today until advanced agricultural systems were...

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  5. Let access open eyes

    I find Frank Furedi's ideas useful in challenging commonsense assumptions. But in suggesting a link between widening access and students with an attitude of "you are here to serve me" ("They expect...

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  6. Mind our Language

    Language and Intercultural Communication (reviewed in Books, April 23) is published by Multilingual Matters, not Short Run Press; is quarterly, not bi-annual; and costs £180 ($310/€260) for...

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  7. Fancy a crisp?

    The report by Peter Greenhouse of Bristol Royal Infirmary that youngsters in the country's poorest areas are using crisp packets as condoms provided food for thought. It caused me to reflect on the...

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  8. Mining database gold

    Your ICT supplement (April 30) reminds me that most education organisations offering degree-level professional qualifications have spent vast sums building and maintaining bespoke databases to...

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  9. Laurie Taylor column

    It's enough to make one a socialist again, isn't it? What's that? All that research done by The Times Higher that shows that students from poor backgrounds stand less chance of securing a place in...

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  10. Leader: Scots merger will raise key issues

    Scotland has often been a trendsetter for UK education, and the furore surrounding the proposed merger of its further and higher education funding councils is no exception. The English system may be...

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  11. Leader: Old system has merits

    For almost a decade, there has been a consensus of sorts among academics that the traditional UK degree classifications have outlasted their usefulness. Only inertia and employers' insistence that no...

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  12. Today's news

    Degree grades 'are too crude' The traditional degree classification of firsts, seconds and thirds should be scrapped, a government-backed task group will recommend in the summer. The "scoping group"...

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