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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. Giant black hole rips star apart

    Paris, 18 Feb 2004 A super-massive black hole has ripped apart a star and consumed a portion of it, according to data from ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatories. These results are...

  12. New form of BSE could be the cause of human disease

    Brussels, 18 Feb 2004 A report published on 17 February claims that a new form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) that has recently been found in Italy might be the cause of some cases of...

  15. UK universities have increasingly good business sense

    Brussels, 18 Feb 2004 The Higher Education Business Interaction (HEBI) survey has found that UK universities and their spin-offs are flourishing and are creating more jobs than ever before. 'UK...