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  1. A or B? Grades are all a lottery 1

    I was delighted with coverage of Mike Tomlinson's interim report reviewing 14-to-19 education ("Extra grades on horizon in A-level rejig", February 13). But by concentrating on structural issues and...

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  2. A or B? Grades are all a lottery 2

    So extra grades at A level are to separate the crème de la crème de la crème from the crème de la crème. Does anyone really think that this can be done with any accuracy regarding future performance...

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  3. We are not scary 1

    Secrecy and paranoia over experiments on animals predates the radical animal rights movement ("Scare tactics silence science", February 6). In 1965, the government's Littlewood committee noted that...

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  4. We are not scary 2

    To portray opponents of Cambridge's primate laboratory as terrorists is a grotesque misrepresentation of the truth. The public inquiry rejected the proposal because the university failed to show that...

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  5. Quality to the core

    Your report "Edexcel failures spark concern", (February 13) betrays a lack of understanding of how the quality "regime" works. Edexcel's primary role is to design the course structure (the...

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  6. The language of rights 1

    Bikhu Parekh's article ("Love is... desirable but it's by no means a 'right'", February 6) is a mish-mash of unjustified claims, both to knowledge and to moral certitude. He includes in human rights...

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  7. The language of rights 2

    Bikhu Parekh makes sensible points about the fractured discourse of rights but directly contradicts much of his earlier writing. His dissertation was on Bentham, but he has been promulgating group...

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  8. Colour-blind care

    I was glad to see the campaign against racism in mental health services highlighted (In the News, February 13). Since the mid-1980s, our psychotherapy training has tried to be sensitive to all...

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  9. A striking absurdity

    Members of the Association of University Teachers and the National Union of Students ("Strike is likely as AUT vote closes", February 13) will be standing shoulder to shoulder in the traditional...

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  10. Prince and the paucity

    It says a lot for the dire state of maths education when The Times Higher puts the entire corpus of mathematics on a par with the writings of one 16th-century Italian diplomat (Free books, January,...

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  11. Laurie Taylor Column

    Universities in the pilot [of the national student satisfaction survey] were given discretion to remove problem students - The Times Higher , February 13. Some good news at last. What's that? I've...

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  12. Laurie Taylor Column

    Universities in the pilot [of the national student satisfaction survey] were given discretion to remove problem students - The Times Higher , February 13. Some good news at last. What's that? I've...

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  13. Alan Ryan

    The higher education bill will not work - it is time for plan B, where funding adapts to the reality of our three-tier system I have said often enough that anyone who minds about higher education...

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  14. Leader: Poor example is a gift to activists

    The Association of University Teachers has been less than happy with some of the reports on the current round of pay bargaining in The Times Higher. But the union surely could not have wished for a...

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  15. Leader: Needing a dose of data

    The detailed figures behind last week's 3.4 per cent increase in applications for full-time higher education show how quickly students' perceptions can change and how difficult it can be for...

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