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  1. Oxbridge legal aid

    Oxbridge admissions procedures must be reformed ("Cambridge ponders taping of interviews as more parents complain", THES , January 16). Applicants should be under no obligation to answer any...

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  2. A clever caricature

    Is Alan Ryan the fictional lovechild of Laurie Taylor and Ricky Gervais (Opinion, THES , January 23)? Or is he just a don from another planet? Reading that Ryan, if real, is riled by notions of...

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  3. A guide to Sherpa

    Sherpa is not an "online search engine that provides free access to... research papers" as you state ("Archive site takes off", THES , January 16) but is setting up institutional archives of open-...

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  4. Too many chiefs

    Lecturers' union Natfhe rightly questions the duplication at the head of the merged London Metropolitan University (News in brief, THES , January 23). Will Roderick Floud, formerly of Guildhall...

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  5. Older foundations

    How does the value of foundation degrees (Opinion, THES , January 16) compare with the equivalent BTec higher certificates available in many local further education colleges? These courses do not...

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  6. For the broad-minded

    With The Times now available in tabloid format, should The THES be considering a broadsheet edition? Gordon Joly London E14

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  7. Helping the able to join the elite 1

    Robert Stevens (Soapbox, THES , January 16) names Imperial College and Thames Valley University as exemplars of a feared two-tier system and elitism. An unfortunate choice, perhaps, in the light of...

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  8. Helping the able to join the elite 2

    Chemical engineers must be pleased that a professor of strategic management compares their profession to plumbing (Letters, THES , January 23). With this level of understanding of engineering, was...

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  9. Helping the able to join the elite 3

    Why not a plumbing degree? Because it would confuse plumbers with heating engineers. A domestic plumber's main skill is to make waterproof joints, avoid airlocks and get a pipe across a building...

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  10. Helping the able to join the elite 4

    It is the smug, well-established universities that deserve the epithet "Mickey Mouse" ("Do they deserve to be degrees?", THES , January 23). In response to government pressure for change they failed...

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  11. Cavity in staff supply 1

    Dental schools, like medical schools at UK universities, are struggling to recruit and retain teachers ("Lack of medical lecturers threatens NHS salvation", THES , January 16). This is against a...

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  12. Cavity in staff supply 2

    Student health services risk serious underfunding as the new general practitioner contract stands. Our work, caring for young adults, often away from home for the first time, is not fully recognised...

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  13. Global harming

    In his review of Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism (Books, THES , January 23) Paul Ormerod trots out facile shibboleths that have been intoned by corporate apparatchiks for the past 30...

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  14. Mind own business

    Why is it that while we at business schools teach management, credit control, budgeting and how to run successful commercial enterprises, most universities are like the proverbial cobbler's children...

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  15. Don't do an Enron

    Enthusiasts of merit pay in UK universities (Letters, THES , January 9 and 16) should take note: Enron Corporation managers in the US were dedicated supporters of merit pay. According to Bethany...

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