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  2. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel with Nazi resonances: "What are the first words a visitor from France can expect to hear upon...

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  3. Scientific methods

    Nick Petford in his review of Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (Books, THES , January 3) writes of sociological theories that "claim that hypothesis testing...

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  4. Some fresh thoughts

    Susan Bassnett (Soapbox, THES , January 10) is right to deplore the confusion over the criteria and processes by which PhDs are awarded in the humanities. She is less justified, however, in expecting...

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  5. A bad Big Idea

    What's wrong with capitals (News, THES , January 10)? They are useful Signposts Highlighting Key Items in otherwise Featureless Oceans of Monotonous Print. Does the plain english campaign avoid...

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  6. Retake A levels from politicians 1

    Alison Wolf is right to bemoan the detachment of A levels from universities (Opinion, THES , January 10). I have been involved with post-16 economics examinations for about 15 years. Originally...

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  7. Retake A levels from politicians 2

    Alison Wolf rightly deplores the loss of university control over the school curriculum, but in her book Does Education Matter? she distinguishes between education proper - higher education - and...

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  8. Undiscerning words

    Michael Rutter calls my book The Blank Slate "intemperate" ( THES , December 13) and its main premise - that many intellectuals believe the mind is a blank slate - "simply nonsense", "tabloid...

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  9. An undeserved shift

    I was flattered that my appointment as dean of the London College of Printing Media School featured in "In the News" ( THES , January 10), but I did not make the decision to shift the timing of TV's...

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  10. In defence of Wits v-c 1

    The alleged unanimous statement about my departure as vice-chancellor of Wi****ersrand University to which Wits registrar D. K. Swemmer referred (Letters, THES , January 10) was nothing of the sort....

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  11. In defence of Wits v-c 2

    We have observed with pride the career of our alumna Norma Reid Birley, which culminated in her becoming vice-chancellor of Wi****ersrand. The reflections on her competence and the questioning of her...

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  12. Teaching attractions 1

    A quarter of a century ago, the University of Oxford's department of educational studies might well have been a conduit through which Oxford graduates moved into independent schools ("Top teachers go...

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  13. Teaching attractions 2

    What evidence is there that having a first or even a PhD makes you a better teacher? The comment that "students in state schools are being short-changed by not having access to the most highly...

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  14. Cruel breaks with past

    The "export" of children to Australia, Canada and New Zealand by some voluntary childcare agencies is not "Britain's guilty secret" (Don's Diary, THES , January 10). The subject has been covered in...

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  15. A call for real class

    Higher education needs more working-class academics, not just students, if it is to ensure real equality and progress ("Will rich ideas tackle a very poor show?", THES , January 10). These academics...

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